Crewe, like its namesake in England, is well known as a railroad town. Visitors can climb on a diesel engine, a caboose, and vintage N&W steam engine # 606. All types of railroad memorabilia and history await visitors to the museum which adjoins a huge active Norfolk Southern rail yard.
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, 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 College, it was […]
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, Mt. Nebo Church was founded shortly after the Civil War in 1867. A northerner named Mr. Rickets bought the place called Oak Hill and began preaching to a group of African Americans at this place in the woods. The […]
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, when the Russell Grove School in Amelia County grew too big for its building, land was found in Nottoway County near Burkeville for a new school. Built in 1892 to educate African-American girls, the new school was named Ingleside […]
