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IC Scoops & Diner

IC Scoops & Diner offers the very best – Hershey Ice Cream, Pies and Cakes. They also specialize in serving up some of the best homemade savory soups (seasonal), scrumptious subs and sandwiches in the area. Check out the full menu then bring the family, come with friends, meet with your group to enjoy savory […]

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Willows Bend Farm

Willows Bend Farm Nursery, Emporium & Home Arts Center is a family run business with three facets: we grow, we sell and we teach.

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Richlands Dairy Farm & Creamery

Farm Day, Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch, Fall Festival, Dinner on the Dairy, and MORE!!! The farm has been a family owned and operated farm since its purchase in the mid 1700s. At this time the farm was primarily a tobacco farm. However, in 1954 Grandpa Jones (now 90 yrs old) decided to try his […]

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Misty Morning Sunrise Farm

Experience classes, tours , and special events. We operate a farm and apiary, caring for pasture-raised goats, chickens and bees, providing our community with pastured eggs and poultry, baked goods, dairy, meat and local raw honey. In addition, we raise heirloom (non-hybrid; reproducing) vegetables and fruit. Our goal is to be good stewards of the […]

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Early Education in Dinwiddie County

Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®.  Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram’s Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell School […]

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Rocky Branch School

Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®.  In 1911 a group of Dinwiddie County’s African-American residents established the Rocky Branch School in Sutherland. The school was a typical two-room schoolhouse. It had been moved from original location across from Ocran Methodist Church on U.S. Route 460 […]

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