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Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®
Follow the self-guided driving tour of 53 sites telling powerful stories of the fight for an equal education through Southside Virginia from the end of the American Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the newly expanded self-guided driving tour brings together for the first time 53 of these historically significant sites and tells […]
Russell Grove Presbyterian Church and School
Amelia County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. At first the school was primitive, with rough walls, boards painted black to act as chalkboards and no desks. Parents joined to pay the teachers and a man to cut wood for the woodstove, the school’s only source of […]
Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil
Amelia County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1865 Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil left her home in Pennsylvania to search for her husband’s body. He had been a Union army officer and had died somewhere in Amelia County only a few days before Confederate Gen. Robert […]
Amelia Wildlife Management
Amelia Wildlife Management Area is a 2,217-acre Wildlife Management Area located in Amelia County, Virginia. Primarily upland habitat, it also preserves around 175 acres of bottomland hardwoods and beaver swampland along the Appomattox River. Visitors can hunt, fish, and photograph local wildlife along hiking trails and waterways maintained by the Virginia Department of Game & […]
Lee’s Retreat
Five stops of the over 20-stop driving tour, Lee’s Retreat, are located in Amelia County and allow visitors to follow the Route of General Robert E. Lee’s Troops from Petersburg to Appomattox during the final seven days of the Civil War in April 1865. Tour Stops: South Side Station, The Breakthough, White Oak Road, Five […]
Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park
The last major battle in Virginia of the American Civil War was fought at what is now Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park located on the western edge of Amelia County. The 329-acre state-owned battlefield and visitors center is operated by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Holt’s Corner, Hillsman House, Marshall’s Crossroads, the […]
