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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYO_prince-edward-county-public-schools_Farmville-VA.html
In 1954, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, that United States schools must integrate, Senator Harry S. Byrd and several Virginia governors followed the policy of "massive resistance." Integration was post…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYN_robert-russa-moton-high-school_Farmville-VA.html
On this site 4-23-51, the students staged a strike protesting inadequate school facilities. Led by Rev. L. Francis Griffin, these students' actions became a part of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYM_r-r-moton-high-school_Farmville-VA.html
On this site of the former R.R. Moton High School, the actions of some brave African-American students to achieve equal educational opportunities for blacks eventually led to the end of legal segregation in American public schools. Moton High S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYL_beulah-ame-church_Farmville-VA.html
Beulah African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was founded in 1868. Originally, it was known as The Colored Methodist Church of Farmville. The original wooden-framed building was destroyed, by fire in 1898. The cornerstone on the present building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYK_dr-william-w-h-thackston_Farmville-VA.html
On this site was the home ofDr. William W. H. Thackston1820-1899 A distinguished pioneer dentist who practicedhis profession in Farmvillefor more than fifty-five years A founder ofThe Virginia Society of Surgeon Dentists-1842and ofThe Virgin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYJ_farmville-female-seminary-association_Farmville-VA.html
Founded on March 5, 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood is one of the oldest colleges originally for women in the country. In 1842 the cornerstone was laid for the first true college building, which is today known as Ruffne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYG_four-sororities-founded_Farmville-VA.html
Longwood College, formerly known as the State Female Normal School, is the only U.S. school where four national sororities were founded. Kappa Delta, founded on 23 Oct. 1897, was the first sorority organized in Virginia. The sorority with the long…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYE_confederate-veterans-monument_Farmville-VA.html
1861 Virginia 1865Defenders of State "Sovereignty".Confederate Heroes Erected byConfederate Veteransand the Daughtersof the ConfederacyOct. 11, 1900. List of companies organizedIn the county 1861.Company F 18th. Va. Inf''ty. " " D 18th, " " …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYD_first-baptist-church_Farmville-VA.html
The First Baptist Church was organized in 1866 as an outgrowth of the predominantly white Farmville Baptist Church. In 1949, following the death of the Rev. C. H. Griffin, the Church voted unanimously to call his son, L. Francis Griffin, as pastor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKY6_longwood_Farmville-VA.html
Property acquired 1765 by Peter Johnston. Home of Peter Johnston, Jr., Lieutenant in Lee's Legion and judge of Circuit Court of Virginia. Birthplace of General Joseph E. Johnston. Purchased 1811 by Abraham B. Venable, U.S. senator; organizer an…
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