On Buck Island Road (State Highway 99) north of Sugar Way, on the left when traveling south.
Approximately 200 yards east of this site are the unmarked graves of Abner Alloway Strange, Sr., and other family members. (The markers were moved to Salem Methodist Cemetery in 1977.) A Sergeant in the Virginia Militia, Strange was at Yorktown . . . — — Map (db m32561) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.1 miles south of Carysbrook Road (Virginia Route 615), on the right when traveling south.
The Rev. John Jasper, one of the best known black preachers of the 19th century in Virginia was born a slave in Fluvanna County on 4 July 1812. After working in a tobacco factory, Jasper had a religious awakening in the later 1830s and became a . . . — — Map (db m256921) HM
On Adams Street 0.1 miles south of Spruce Street, on the left when traveling south.
Nellie Naylor was born in 1799 in Prince William County, Virginia and lived enslaved by the Weir family at Liberia House. During the Civil War, the Naylor family took care of the estate when the Weir family fled south the Fluvanna County, . . . — — Map (db m305724) HM
Near Courtland Farm Road (Virginia Route 820) 0.2 miles east of Hanover Courthouse Road (U.S. 301), on the right when traveling east.
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The Colonial River Road
After centuries of use by native people and the colonists of New Kent County, the road along the Pamunkey River was extended past the tobacco ports of Newcastle and Page’s Warehouse (later . . . — — Map (db m53801) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) at County Route 687, on the right when traveling south on James Madison Highway.
Buckingham County. Located in the geographical center of Virginia, Buckingham County, the only county in the United States to bear that name, was formed in 1761 from Albemarle County. It is not known for which of the many Buckinghams in . . . — — Map (db m31358) HM
On Three Notch Road (U.S. 250) west of Three Chopt Road ( Route 653), on the right when traveling east.
Fluvanna County. Area 285 Square Miles. Formed in 1777 from Albemarle. Named (in Latin) Anne's River, the early name for the upper James given in honor of Queen Anne. Point of Fork was an important supply depot in 1781. . . . — — Map (db m54220) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) just south of Three Notch Road (U.S. 250), on the right when traveling south.
Louisa County. Located in the heart of the Virginia Piedmont, this rural county was named for Louisa, a daughter of George II. It was formed from Hanover county in 1742, the county seat is Louisa. Among the county’s historic resources is the . . . — — Map (db m17751) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) at West River Road ( Route 6), on the right when traveling south on James Madison Highway.
Fork Union Baptist Church was constituted in
1798. Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist,
and Baptist congregations shared as a place
of worship the current church, built in 1824
and first known as the Brick Meetinghouse.
Gen. John Hartwell Cocke, . . . — — Map (db m18302) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
