In June of 1864, Union Cavalry forces moved south on the Richmond & Danville Railroad, destroying track as they progressed toward the bridge across the Staunton River. Arriving at the Randolph Station on the afternoon of the 24th, they selected Mulberry Hill Plantation as their headquarters and immediately began to plan an attack on the […]
In late June 1864, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were engaged in a desperate defense of the city of Petersburg. Victory for Lee depended on a steady flow of supplies from the west, brought in by rail. To force Lee from Petersburg, Union Geneneral U. S. Grant planned to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Appomattox County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Historic Camp Winonah, the Mozella Price home place, is located directly on Hwy 460. It is the first stop on the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail. The site is a little past the town of Appomattox. From east […]
Buckingham County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Union Grove School is representative of the many one-room schools for African-American students in Buckingham County and throughout the area. The African-American members of the community built Union Grove around 1925, and like most schools, it was named after […]
Buckingham County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Carter Godwin Woodson was born about three miles east on 19 December 1875. As a youth he mined coal near Huntington, W. Va. He earned degrees at Berea College (B.L., 1903), University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A., 1908), and […]
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Southside Virginia Community College has two campuses: the Christanna Campus in Alberta, which opened in 1970, and the John H. Daniel campus in Keysville, which opened in 1971. The college is part of the statewide system of community colleges […]
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Beginning in 1937, Ambassador and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce anonymously gave money to 11 sites in Southside Virginia to build libraries. The Bruce libraries, as they were called, became the first public libraries to allow access to African […]
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail® – After the Civil War, in the Red Oak area of Charlotte County, many freed slaves were welcomed to worship at Antioch Baptist Church, a traditionally white church. The Antioch congregation helped raise money to build Salem Baptist Church […]
