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Middlesex Preacher Rose From Slavery

Middlesex Preacher Rose From Slavery

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...
Old Bible reflects 19th-century happy and sad times of Middlesex family

Old Bible reflects 19th-century happy and sad times of Middlesex family

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...
Middlesex Museum Elects Officers and Board Members for 2019

Middlesex Museum Elects Officers and Board Members for 2019

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...
One Woman’s Opinion: Can We Recover? Part 3.

One Woman’s Opinion: Can We Recover? Part 3.

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...
One Woman’s Opinion: Can We Recover? Part 2.

One Woman’s Opinion: Can We Recover? Part 2.

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...
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