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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…
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This place, five miles northeast, has been owned by the Harrison family for two centuries. John Martin patented the land in 1617; Nathaniel Harrison bought it in 1720. The present house was built about 1770. The British General Phillips landed at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0P_claremont-school_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Surry County African-American Heritage Society Claremont School In November of 1913 a deed was sold to the School Board District Number Four for property on the eastside of Spring Grove Road, Claremont, Virginia. A school was built on this p…
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The Quiyoughcohannock Indian village nearby was first visited by English settlers in May, 1607. The first land patent at Claremont was 200 acres granted to George Harrison in 1621. Arthur Allen, who built the house now known as Bacon's Castle, fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0L_cabin-point_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Beginning about 1689, a village known as Cabin Point stood here. It was a tobacco shipping port in the 18th century. Colonial troops were stationed here during the American Revolution in 1780 and 1781. By 16 Jan. 1781 Maj. Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0K_wards-creek_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IJ_hoods_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Four miles north on James River. There, on January 3, 1781, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon. On January 10, Arnold, returning, sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers Clark. Fort Powhatan stood the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14Y_english-settlement-on-grays-creek_Spring-Grove-VA.html
English settlement along Gray's Creek began by 1609 when Capt. John Smith ordered a defensive fortification built on the tidal creek opposite Jamestown. Though the English did not finish construction the fort (known as Smith's Fort) and soon aband…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X_paces-paines_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Nearby to the north, Richard Pace and his family received a land patent in Dec. 1620 establishing Pace's Paines plantation. In response to English expansion into Indian lands, such as occurred at Pace's Paines and elsewhere. Chief Opechancanough p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14W_southwark-parish-churches_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Southwark Parish was established in 1647. To the northeast stood the second Southwark church built by 1673 and abandoned shortly after the American Revolution. To the east, near Bacon's Castle, Southwark Parish vestry completed the Lower Southwark…
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