Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1950, Prince Edward Lake Recreation Area became Prince Edward State Park for Negroes — Virginia’s eighth state park and the only one accessible at that time to African Americans. During an era of segregation, this site was […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Established in 1843, most likely by free Black people, the Beneficial Benevolent Society of the Loving Sisters and Brothers of Hampden Sydney consisted of two mutual benefit groups for African American men and women of the Hampden Sydney […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Hampden-Sydney College, the last college formed under the British Crown, has been in continuous operation since it opened in 1775. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the college did not publicly take sides. Some faculty children […]
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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 […]
Hampden-Sydney College, the last college formed under the British Crown, and founded in 1775 by Patrick Henry, is located a few miles south of Farmville. Their Fine Arts department produces two main stage productions a year. All performances are FREE and open to the public.
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Beulah African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was founded in 1868. Originally, it was known as The Colored Methodist Church of Farmville. The original wooden-framed building was destroyed, by fire in 1898. The cornerstone on the present building was […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. The First Baptist Church was organized in 1866 as an outgrowth of the predominantly white Farmville Baptist Church. In 1949, following the death of the Rev. C. H. Griffin, the Church voted unanimously to call his son, L. […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Founded on March 5, 1839, as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood is one of the oldest colleges originally for women in the country. In 1842 the cornerstone was laid for the first true college building, which is […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1954, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, that United States schools must integrate, Senator Harry S. Byrd and several Virginia governors followed the policy of “massive resistance.” Integration was […]
