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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKXW_longwood-estate_Farmville-VA.html
Peter Johnston (1763-1831)—jurist, Speaker of the House of Delegates (1805-1807), and father of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston—inherited Longwood estate from his father. He sold the property after he became a judge on the General …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7D_site-of-the-randolph-house_Farmville-VA.html
Here stood the hotel where General U.S. Grant made his headquarters April 7, 1865, and opened correspondence with General R.E. Lee which terminated in the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House two days later. From th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK76_james-f-lipscomb_Farmville-VA.html
James F. Lipscomb was born a free black on 4 December 1830 in Cumberland County. He worked first as a farm laborer, then as a carriage driver in Richmond. In 1867 he returned to Cumberland County, where he accumulated more than 500 acres of land. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK71_needham-law-school_Farmville-VA.html
Just east of here is Needham, location of Virginia's first proprietary law school and home of founder Judge Creed Taylor (1766 - 1836), politician, jurist, and legal educator. Taylor's law school at Needham, which opened in 1821 and closed by 1840…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6B_cumberland-county-prince-edward-county_Farmville-VA.html
(South Side):Cumberland CountyArea 293 square milesFormed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776.
(North Side):Prince …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK63_bizarre_Farmville-VA.html
Near here is the site of Bizarre, owned in 1742 by Richard Randolph of Curles. In 1781, his grandson, John Randolph of Roanoke, took refuge at Bizarre with his mother on account of Arnold's invasion. John Randolph lived here until 1810, when he mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZ4_high-bridge_Farmville-VA.html
From here you can see the 1914 steel railroad bridge that spans the Appomattox River above the brick piers of the antebellum High Bridge, which carried the South Side Railroad. The old wooden bridge and the wagon bridge, just to the east of it, we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFC_new-store-village_Farmville-VA.html
Four miles west is the site of New Store Village, in early times an important stop on the stage coach road between Richmond and Lynchburg. Philip Watkins McKinney, governor of Virginia 1890-1894, was born here in 1832. Peter Francisco, Revolutiona…