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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219I_the-pickett-reservoir-lies-before-you_Blackstone-VA.html
The Pickett Reservoir lies before you. This 384 acre impoundment was formed in 1942 by the United States Army in conjunction with the creation of Camp Pickett. Along with being a military training area, this reservoir provides drinking water to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2197_brunswick-county-virginia_Blackstone-VA.html
According to local tradition, while Dr. Creed Haskins and several friends were on a hunting trip in Brunswick County in 1828, his camp cook, Jimmy Matthews, hunted squirrels for a stew. Matthews simmered the squirrels with butter, onions, stale br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMO_jamestown-oaks_Blackstone-VA.html
Through the Virginia 2007 Community Program the National Alumnae Association of Blackstone College planted 24 White and Pin Oak trees at this site to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLB1_nottoway-county-dinwiddie-county_Blackstone-VA.html
(Obverse)Nottoway CountyArea 310 Square MilesFormed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. (Reverse)Dinwiddie CountyArea 521…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRT_butterwood-chapel_Blackstone-VA.html
Butterwood Chapel, one of three Anglican chapels constructed in Dinwiddie County in the 18th century, was built by 1763 on or near this site. It probably was the first church built after the creation of Bath Parish in 1742. The Reverend Devereux J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRS_nottoway-county-dinwiddie-county_Blackstone-VA.html
(Obverse)Nottoway CountyArea 310 square milesFormed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. (Reverse)Dinwiddie CountyArea 521…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRR_nottoway-training-school_Blackstone-VA.html
On this site stood the Nottoway Training School, the first public school to provide secondary education for African Americans in Nottoway County. In 1909, public appeals to raise funds led to the establishment of the school by 1913, making it one …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRQ_creation-of-camp-pickett_Blackstone-VA.html
Late in 1941, the U.S. government began the condemnation of some 46,000 acres near Blackstone to establish Camp Pickett and train troops for World War II. The action forced 263 families (totaling 1,181 individuals) from their farms early in 1942. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRO_union-academy_Blackstone-VA.html
Near here stood Union Academy, conducted by Hardy and Crenshaw from 1861 to about 1869. Dr. Walter Reed, who discovered the carrier of yellow fever, and Dr. Robert E. Blackwell, long President of Randolph-Macon College, attended school here. Nearb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRK_blackstone-female-institute_Blackstone-VA.html
The Blackstone Female Institute was conceived in 1891 by George Pierce Adams, a Blackstone merchant, and Joshua Soule Hunter, a Methodist minister. Originally designed as a school to prepare young female students to enter Randolph-Macon Women's Co…
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