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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YKS_surry-lumber-company_Dendron-VA.html
The Surry Lumber Company, chartered in 1885, was among the largest producers of yellow pine lumber on the East Coast. Here at Mussel Fork Plantation, the company constructed sawmills, box mills, dry kilns, employee housing, and a commissary. The t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YKQ_surry-sussex-southampton-railway_Dendron-VA.html
The Surry Lumber Company began constructing the main line of its narrow-gauge Surry, Sussex & Southampton Railway in 1886. Eventually extending 28 miles, the line began at Scotland Wharf on the James River, continued to the sawmill complex here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPR_cypress-church-historical_Elberon-VA.html
Nearby to the southeast once stood Cypress Church. It was established by order of the Southwark Parish vestry on 5 April 1743. The rectangular brick building, about 60 by 27 feet in size, was completed by Feb. 1745. After the disestablishment of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPQ_captain-john-smiths-adventures-on-the-james-historical_Surry-VA.html
Prior to unloading at Jamestown, the English sailed the James in search of a suitable location. In his account, George Perch recalls crossing to the southern shore on May 5, 1607 at the invitation of a chief he misidentifies as the "Werowance of R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UPJ_working-the-land-historical_Surry-VA.html
Indians cultivated fertile lands along the James River for centuries before the colonists arrived in 1607. They grew squash, corn, and beans to supplement their diet of native plants, fish, shellfish, and game. When the soils at a house site becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GDD_jamestown-ferry_Surry-VA.html
Near this site on February 26, 1925, the ferry Captain John Smith began the first automobile ferry service crossing the James River. Captain Albert F. Jester was the inaugurator and owner/operator until it was sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F5B_temperance-industrial-and-collegiate-institute_Spring-Grove-VA.html
On 12 Oct. 1892, Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood, born enslaved in 1863 in Rich Square, North Carolina, founded the Temperance Industrial & Collegiate Institute nearby with fewer than ten students. Sprawled over sixty-five acres on the James River in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F59_jerusalem-baptist-church_Waverly-VA.html
Jerusalem Baptist Church was organized as Mt. Joy Baptist Church in 1867 at the nearby home of Mondoza Bailey, community leader and carpenter. Amelia "Mother" Howard assisted in the organization of this and six other churches. Sent by the United S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F58_carsley-united-methodist-church_Waverly-VA.html
On 23 November 1811 William Carsley sold an acre of land here to trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The first Methodist church built in Surry County was constructed here soon thereafter. During the 19th century it was replaced by a second…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3H_surry-county-war-memorial_Surry-VA.html
(Center)"At the going downof the sun and inthe morning we willremember them." Erected A.D. 1947 (Left)1917 - 1918To the members ofthe Armed Forces of World War IfromSurry County They fought that democracy might survive.They with their com…
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