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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRT_butterwood-chapel_Blackstone-VA.html
Butterwood Chapel, one of three Anglican chapels constructed in Dinwiddie County in the 18th century, was built by 1763 on or near this site. It probably was the first church built after the creation of Bath Parish in 1742. The Reverend Devereux J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRS_nottoway-county-dinwiddie-county_Blackstone-VA.html
(Obverse)Nottoway CountyArea 310 square milesFormed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. (Reverse)Dinwiddie CountyArea 521…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTS_sapony-episcopal-church_McKenney-VA.html
Sapony Episcopal Church stands approximately 1.5 miles to the north. This simple frame building was first constructed in 1725-1726. The Rev. Devereux Jarratt served as rector here and at two other congregations in Dinwiddie County from 1763 until …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTQ_birthplace-of-roger-atkinson-pryor_McKenney-VA.html
Nearby is Montrose, the birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor, born 19 July 1828. Pryor practiced law before becoming a journalist and briefly owned newspapers in Richmond and Washington, D.C., in the 1850s. He served his Virginia district in the U.S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTP_sallie-jones-atkinson_McKenney-VA.html
Sallie Jones Atkinson, prominent educator and community leader in Dinwiddie County and her husband, John Pryor Atkinson, gave the land on which Sunnyside High School was built in 1911. By her vision, tireless industry, and determination, the schoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTL_early-education-in-dinwiddie-county_Dinwiddie-VA.html
Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram's Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell School f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTK_rocky-branch-school_Sutherland-VA.html
In 1911 a group of Dinwiddie County's African-American residents established the Rocky Branch School in Sutherland. The school was a typical two-room schoolhouse. It had been moved from original location across from Ocran Methodist Church on U.S. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDAJ_brunswick-county-virginia_McKenney-VA.html
According to local tradition, while Dr. Creed Haskins and several friends were on a hunting trip in Brunswick County in 1828, his camp cook, Jimmy Matthews, hunted squirrels for a stew. Matthews simmered the squirrels with butter, onions, stale br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCHL_colonel-john-banister_Sutherland-VA.html
One mile to the south is the site of Hatcher's Run Plantation and the grave site of Col. John Banister (D. 1787), first mayor of Petersburg and prosperous entrepreneur. Banister represented Dinwiddie County in the House of Burgesses (1765-1775) an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCDQ_battle-of-five-forks_Church-Rd-VA.html
Four miles south is the battlefield of Five Forks. To that point Pickett retired from Dinwiddie Courthouse in the night of March 31, 1865. Sheridan, following, attacked him in the afternoon of April 1, 1865. The Confederates, outnumbered and surro…
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