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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21AY_origins-of-4-h-in-virginia_McKenney-VA.html
F. Southall Farrar, farm demonstration agent for Southside Virginia, organized the state's first corn clubs for boys in 1909. Such clubs, a feature of the nation's emerging agricultural extension movement, had originated in the Midwest to pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16DZ_dinwiddie-county-brunswick-county_McKenney-VA.html
(obverse)Dinwiddie CountyArea 521 Square Miles Formed in 1752 from Prince George, and named for Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia 1751-1756. General Winfield Scott was born in this county, and in it took place the battle of Five Forks, 186…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16DY_birchs-bridge_McKenney-VA.html
At Birch's Bridge (very near this bridge) the second William Byrd and his party crossed the river, in September, 1733, on their way to inspect Byrd's land holdings in North Carolina. Byrd wrote an account of this trip which he called "A Journey to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRU_darvills-school_McKenney-VA.html
A public school operated here as early as the 1880s. In 1907, three other one-room schools nearby were consolidated here as Darvills Graded School, which was expanded and made a high school in 1913. It was the heart of community activities, notabl…
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/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…
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