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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AY_george-fox-monument_Suffolk-VA.html
George Fox. Founder of Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) visited in this area and held a meeting in 1672. As a result Somerton Friends Meeting was soon established.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24LD_somerton-friends-meeting_Suffolk-VA.html
George Fox founder of the Religious Society of Friends also known as Quakers passed through this community in 1672 holding the first local meeting of Friends in a field located approximately 1.5 miles east of this location at what is today the vic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX06_mount-sinai-baptist-church_Suffolk-VA.html
In 1868, the formerly enslaved Rev. Israel Cross founded Mount Sinai Baptist Church in a log building here on Benjamin Howell's land. He allegedly never closed a sermon without saying, "Buy some land, build a home, and get some education." In 1871…
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The first Ruritan Club was founded here in Holland, Va., on May 21, 1928. Ruritan is an organization of rural leaders striving through community service, fellowship and good will to make the rural community a better place in which to live.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF67_nansemond-county-training-school_Suffolk-VA.html
Two miles south stood the Nansemond County training School, he first high school in the county for African American students. It was constructed in 1924 with $5,000 contributed by African American families, $11,500 in public money, and $1,500 from…
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