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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VB_about-hampden-sydney-college_Farmville-VA.html
You are standing near the site of the original campus of Hampden-Sydney College, which stood on the knoll to your right (see artist reconstruction above). Hampden-Sydney began classes on November 10, 1775, the last college founded in Colonial Amer…
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When Samuel Stanhope Smith, our first president, named the College after English anti-Royalists, he clearly agreed with Patrick Henry's revolutionary vision. Thus it was logical that Henry should be elected a Founding Trustee in November 1775, sho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZG_main-street-mayor-j-david-crute-eaco-theatre_Farmville-VA.html
(Main Street Side):Once named Bizarre in 1736, Farmville was established as a town in 1798. From the town's formation, tobacco was a major factor in its prosperity. The numerous warehouses along the Main Street corridor represent Farmville's role …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZA_slate-hill-plantation_Farmville-VA.html
To the west is the estate of Nathaniel Venable (1733-1804), Slate Hill Plantation. He was a prominent citizen of Prince Edward County, serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1768. During the Revolutionary War, he was a member of t…
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This site served as the county seat when Prince Edward County was founded in 1754. The original courthouse constructed soon thereafter was replaced in 1776. The last courthouse here was built in 1832. The former debtors' prison built in 1787 and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ7_campaign-of-1781_Farmville-VA.html
In 1781, British Gen. Charles Cornwallis ordered cavalry commander Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton to raid Southside Virginia to seize or destroy private and public supplies of ammunition, clothing, and food. On 9 July, Tarleton left Cobham in Surry Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ6_providence_Farmville-VA.html
Two miles east is the Glebe House where the Rev. Archibald McRoberts lived during the Revolution. Tarleton, raiding through this section in July, 1781, set fire to the house, but a timely rain put out the flames. Accordingly, the place was named "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ5_the-birthplace_Farmville-VA.html
In 1775, the Session of Hanover Presbytery met in this building, the law office of Nathaniel Venable, to lay final plans for the establishment of Hampden-Sydney College. The building was erected between 1737 and 1756 on Venable's Plantation, "Slat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ2_presbyterian-seminary_Farmville-VA.html
The first Presbyterian seminary in the South was established here in 1812 as the Theology Department of Hampden-Sydney College. It became independent of the college in 1822. After the synods of Virginia and North Carolina assumed joint ownership i…
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Hampden-Sydney College, in continuous operation since 10 Nov. 1775, was established "to form good men and good Citizens." It was named for John Hampden (1594-1643) and Algernon Sydney (1622-1683), champions of parliamentary rule in England. Patric…
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