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⊲ Previous 100 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) Church Historical Markers
This series features markers relating to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion or AMEZ) Church, a historically African American denomination of the Methodist tradition.Note: This denomination is distinct from the similarly named African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
101 ► Virginia, Chesapeake, Pleasant Grove East — The Cuffeytown Thirteen — Patriot Heroes — |
Thirteen African American veterans of the Civil War are interred nearby at the Cuffeytown Historic Cemetery. They served in the 5th, 10th, and 36th United States Colored Troops infantry regiments organized in 1863 and 1864, after the Emancipation . . . — — Map (db m48917) HM |
102 ► Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Dinwiddie — 17 — Early Education in Dinwiddie County — Dinwiddie, Virginia — Dinwiddie County — Reported permanently removed |
Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram’s Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell . . . — — Map (db m26834) HM |
103 ► Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Dinwiddie — DN3 — Early Education in Dinwiddie County — Dinwiddie, Virginia — Dinwiddie County — |
Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram's Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell's . . . — — Map (db m180010) HM |
104 ► Virginia, Dinwiddie County, Dinwiddie — DN4 — Southside High School — Dinwiddie, Virginia — Dinwiddie County — |
Dinwiddie's Southside High School was started in 1908 as Dinwiddie Normal and Industrial School and was owned by the operated by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church. The only school in the area for African Americans for several . . . — — Map (db m180012) HM |
105 ► Virginia, Petersburg — African-Americans in Petersburg — |
The Petersburg area has an extraordinarily rich African-American heritage. In 1625, most of the Africans in Virginia were servants at Flowerdew Hundred, nearby in Prince George County. In the 18th century, tens of thousands of newly enslaved . . . — — Map (db m57366) HM |
106 ► Virginia, Petersburg — Architectural Heritage — |
Petersburg’s architectural heritage has a long and rich history, reflecting centuries of occupation by Native Americans and over 300 years of European settlement. Beginning as a frontier trading post with the Virginia Indians, Fort Henry was . . . — — Map (db m175053) HM |
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