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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ9_history-of-worsham_Farmville-VA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ1_hampden-sydney-college_Farmville-VA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKZ0_frenchs-church_Farmville-VA.html
An Episcopal church, built in 1757, formerly stood one-eighth of a mile east of here. According to tradition, a detachment of Rochambeau's army wintered here after the Battle of Yorktown, and seventy French soldiers were buried in the church yard.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYZ_kingsville_Farmville-VA.html
Here, before the Revolution, stood King's Tavern. The British cavalryman, Tarleton, raiding, camped here in 1781. In the same year sick and wounded French soldiers were brought to this place from Yorktown; seventy of them are buried here. Nearby i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYR_hampden-sydney-college_Farmville-VA.html
Hampden-Sydney College, in continuous operation since November 10, 1775, was established "to form good men and good citizens." One of the few remaining all-male colleges, it was named for John Hampden (1594-1643) and Algernon Sydney (1622-1683), c…