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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM212M_mecklenburg-county-training-school_South-Hill-VA.html
In 1915, four influential African American residents of South Hill—the Rev. J. H. Simmons, Mary E. Simmons, Robert Walker, and James E. Skipwith—established the Mecklenburg County Training School for black students. The school oper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKNB_salem-chapel_South-Hill-VA.html
A mile south is the site of Salem Chapel, one of the pioneer Methodist churches of the state. Of it Francis Asbury wrote, "the best house we have in the country part of Virginia." There he held four sessions of the Virginia Annual conference: Nove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKNA_south-hill_South-Hill-VA.html
In 1889 South Hill's founding fathers laid out the town's boundary in a circle radiating 5/8s of a mile from a point within the intersection of the Atlantic and Danville Railway tracks and the Boydton Plank Road (now U.S. Rt. 1). South Hill was in…
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