by Whitney Law | Feb 22, 2019 | African American History, Churches, Middlesex History, People of Middlesex
By Larry Chowning Holland Powell was born a slave in 1854 in the Amburg area of Middlesex County. As a slave boy, he worked on a farm, oystered for his master, and received no formal education. Prior to the end of slavery, churches were integrated in Middlesex County...
by Whitney Law | Feb 13, 2019 | Churches, Culture/Life, Interesting History From Our Region, Middlesex History, People of Middlesex
Published with permission from Southside Sentinel By Larry Chowning Millwood stands quietly majestic, back off the road in a field near the intersection of Stormont Rd. (Rt. 629) and Healys Rd. (619). In the early 1800s, the acreage was part of land holdings owned by...
by Whitney Law | Feb 12, 2019 | News and Reports
The Middlesex County Museum & Historical Society elected the following board members and officers for 2019: Bob Montague, president; Velma Gray, vice president; Patricia Satterfield, secretary; and Diane Gravatt, treasurer. Other board members elected include...
by Whitney Law | Feb 11, 2019 | Interesting History From Our Region
By Mary Wakefield Buxton Urbanna, Va.— The last speaker on the panel during the program on integrating area public schools presented in Saluda last month was the upbeat Anthony Green. The second of three sons of Dr. Calvin Green, the man who had initiated the lawsuit...
by Whitney Law | Feb 10, 2019 | Interesting History From Our Region
By Mary Wakefield Buxton Urbanna, Va.— My husband Chip asked me last week why talk about past pain that area citizens suffered. Because the only way for us to recover from it is to acknowledge it, I responded. After the film “Green v. New Kent County” that...
