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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM213P_west-end-high-school_Skipwith-VA.html
Just to the east is the former West End High
School, which served African Americans during
the segregation era. With the help of Matilda M.
Booker, Mecklenburg County's Jeanes Fund
supervisor of education for blacks, local parents
first estab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2135_mecklenburg-county-virginia-north-carolina_Boydton-VA.html
Mecklenburg County Virginia. Area 669 Square Miles. Formed in 1764 from Lunenburg, and named for Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III. Bacon, the rebel, defeated the Indians near the present town of Clarksville, 1676.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2134_james-solomon-russell_Boydton-VA.html
James Solomon Russell was born enslaved on 20
Dec. 1857 on the nearby Hendrick Plantation.
After emancipation, he attended Hampton
Institute and St. Stephen's Normal and Theological
School and was ordained in 1882. As a religious
missionary, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM212V_patrick-robert-parker-sydnor_Clarksville-VA.html
Born enslaved on one of William Sydnor's
plantations in Halifax County, Patrick Robert
"Parker" Sydnor became literate at a freedmen's
school after the Civil War. A preacher and farmer
in his youth, he began crafting grave markers
i…
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/HM1RZX_town-of-la-crosse_La-Crosse-VA.html
La Crosse became the junction of the Atlantic and Danville Railway and the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. Surveyed as early as 1748, the area was known as Piney Pond by 1767, for a body of water that no longer exists. When a post office was es…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRAQ_occaneechi-indians_Clarksville-VA.html
The Occaneechi Indians once lived nearby on an island in the Roanoke River. Well known for trading goods with other Indians nations and colonists, the Occaneechi resided close to several Indian paths. They also hunted, fished, and raised crops tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLB0_the-boyd-tavern_Boydton-VA.html
The presence of Boyd tavern, built in the eighteenth-century, greatly influenced the selection of Boydton as the Mecklenburg County seat. A major mid-nineteenth century renovation expanded the original tavern into a 35-room structure that included…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLAY_thyne-institute_Chase-City-VA.html
In 1876 the United Presbyterian Church and the Rev. J. J. Ashenhurst, first principal, formed Thyne Institute, the only facility in Mecklenburg County offering courses for blacks until 1923. Two years after opening in a small building that had bee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLAU_prestwould-plantation_Clarksville-VA.html
The second William Byrd obtained land here about 1730 and named the place "Blue Stone Castle." The estate extended ten miles along Roanoke River. Before the Revolution Sir Peyton Skipwith came into possession and built the present house, which he …