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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2126_saint-pauls-chapel-school_Alberta-VA.html
Among the earliest of the more than a dozen
Julius Rosenwald Schools built in Brunswick
County, Saint Paul's Chapel School was constructed
as a one-teacher standard plan in 1920 under
the initial wave of Tuskegee Institute-administered buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM211X_nellie-pratt-russell_Alberta-VA.html
Nellte Pratt Russell, educator, attended Howard
University and was one of six incorporators of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek
letter organizatton founded by African American
women. The sorority, established in 1908, was
incorpora…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S05_the-american-thoroughbred-in-brunswick_Brodnax-VA.html
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed synonymous with racing. All modem Thoroughbreds trace back to three stallions imported into England from the Middle East in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. English Thoroughbreds were imported into North Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S02_tobacco-as-a-way-of-life_Brodnax-VA.html
Tobacco has long held a sacred and prominent role among the Indian tribes in the southeast. Well before Christopher Columbus returned with tobacco seeds from the Caribbean or Sir Walter Raleigh made smoking fashionable in Europe when he returned f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S01_bridges-of-brunswick-county_Brodnax-VA.html
While wooden trestle bridges were numerous in Brunswick County, the Meherrin River Bridge was one of a few truss bridges on the A&D between Pinners Point (at Portsmouth) and Danville. Built in 1893, the 150-feet long, through truss pin-connected s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S00_you-are-traveling-through-the-scenic-meherrin-river-watershed_Brodnax-VA.html
Did you know... A raindrop falling in the Meherrin River Watershed will travel over 200 miles before reaching the Atlantic?!
Watersheds are the collective web of tributaries and surrounding land draining to a common waterbody, such as a major r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZU_broadnax_Brodnax-VA.html
A community of mills, warehouses, homes and stores sprang up with the construction of the Atlantic and Danville Railway in the 1890s. A combination freight and passenger station was located at Brodnax shown here in 1948. Bales of cotton, timber an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZP_rolling-post-office_Brodnax-VA.html
Until about 1967, the U.S. Postal Service used the railroads to handle mail on designated routes. The mail was handled in special railroad cars usually moved on passenger trains, designated as Railway Post Office (RPO) cars. The RPOs were actually…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16E1_sturgeon-creek_Alberta-VA.html
A branch of the Nottoway, named for the huge fish once caught in it. William Byrd, returning from the expedition to survey the Virginia-North Carolina boundary line, camped on this stream in November, 1729.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16E0_ebenezer-academy_Warfield-VA.html
A few hundred yards east is the site of Ebenezer Academy, founded in 1793 by Bishop Asbury, the first Methodist school established in Virginia. It passed out of the hands of the church but remained a noted school for many years.