The famous Chicken Festival is held every year in June at Southside Electric Cooperative’s Hooper Park in Crewe, VA. A ticket will give you all-youcan-eat chicken and beverages while listening to some of the best music in Southside. While there, you might just run into a politician or two, too.
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.
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, one of two Community Colleges in Southside Virginia that is open to people of all economic and social conditions. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Though many freed African Americans continued after the Civil War to work the same farms on which they had been slaves, many also left their homes in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Often the sick, elderly and very young […]
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 […]
Lunenburg County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. On May 13, 1947, several African American leaders in Lunenburg County met at First Baptist Church in Victoria to discuss the need for a centrally located building large enough to accommodate county-wide gatherings. Out of a need to deal […]
The Fishin’ Pig is a southern culinary combination that will delight all the senses! At The Fishin’ Pig, They have the finest from land and sea: savory, smoked meats and flavorful, fresh seafood! Founders, Matt Hurley and Shorty Osborn, upon introductions from their sons, combined visions of Memphis-style BBQ from Grady’s BBQ and Seafood and […]
Uptown Coffee Cafe is the place for gathering as you shop Farmville; stop after a hike or ride on High Bridge Trail State Park, or for a light supper while enjoying local music! Make it Uptown today!
