On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles north of Spring Street, on the right when traveling north.
Benjamin Donaldson Tillar, Jr. (1853-1887), a Greensville County native, president of the Atlantic and Danville Railroad, and member of the House of Delegates, is known as "the man who named Emporia." Two villages, Hicksford and Belfield, merged in . . . — — Map (db m18936) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) at Greensville Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
William McKendree was born in King William County in 1757. He soon moved with his family to present-day Greensville County, and later served in the Revolutionary War. In 1786, the county licensed him to keep a tavern at his house (12 miles south). . . . — — Map (db m18943) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 301) at Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. Reported missing.
According to local tradition, the first court meeting for newly formed Greensville County occurred in Butts Tavern two blocks east on 22 Feb. 1781. Built about 1770 at the intersection of Fort Christianna and Halifax Roads for William Edwards, the . . . — — Map (db m226730) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) at Spring Street, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
Thomas McNeill Bulla was born in North Carolina on 4 Jan. 1881. Ordained a Presbyterian minister, he was called here to the First Presbyterian Church of Emporia in 1911. In April 1917, he became chaplain of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry . . . — — Map (db m18955) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) south of Spring Street, on the left when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
To the
Confederate Soldiers
of Greensville County
1861.-1865.
Who, in defence of rights
they believed sacred,
took up arms against
the invaders of Virginia.
"The glory dies not and
the grief is past."
(back) . . . — — Map (db m19065) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles north of Church Street, on the right when traveling north.
Hicksford Lodge No. 37, the first in Greensville County, was chartered in 1793. It became dormant by 1829, but several former members, with new recruits from Southampton County, formed Widow's Son Lodge No. 150, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of . . . — — Map (db m18948) HM
On Halifax Street at Baker Street, on the right when traveling north on Halifax Street.
The Petersburg Railroad was constructed in the early 1830s between Petersburg, Virginia and Weldon, North Carolina, through the towns of Belfield and Hicksford (present-day Emporia). It is considered the first railroad in the South built in a . . . — — Map (db m18866) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 301) at Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
The famous Thoroughbred racehorse Fearnought, a dominating racer in Great Britain and the foremost colonial-era sire in America, was foaled in England in 1755. In 1764, John Baylor brought him to Newmarket in Caroline County, where he stood at stud . . . — — Map (db m18958) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) at Church Street, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
Edward Everard Goodwyn was born in Greensville Co. on 26 Sept. 1874. An Emporia businessman and civic leader, he also commanded the Virginia American Legion (1922-1923) and was a member of its National Executive Committee (1923-1925). Goodwyn served . . . — — Map (db m18957) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles south of Brunswick Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Here lived Gordon L. Vincent, who represented Greensville and Sussex counties in the 1901-1902 Virginia Constitutional Convention. A successful and respected business leader, Vincent headed the Emporia Manufacturing Company, then one of the largest . . . — — Map (db m18945) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles south of Brunswick Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Brig. Gen. John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., C.S.A., is buried just west of here. Born in Hicksford (present-day Emporia) on 23 January 1833, Chambliss graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1853. During the Civil War, he commanded . . . — — Map (db m18870) HM
Near South Main Street (U.S. 301) south of Spring Street, on the left when traveling south.
Greensville County was formed in 1781 from Brunswick County; parts of Brunswick and Sussex Counties were added later. It was the prehistoric home of the Meherrin and Nottoway Indians. Edward Bland and Abraham Wood explored the land in 1650; the . . . — — Map (db m19068) HM
On Ruffin Street just east of North Main Street (U.S. 301), on the left when traveling east.
The Greensville County Training School (GCTS) began sometime before 1912 as a small wood-frame building and went on to contribute to African American education in Emporia for more than 50 years. An addition in 1929 resulted in GCTS being one . . . — — Map (db m180459) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.2 miles north of Battery Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
On 7 Dec. 1864, Union Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren led 28,000 men south from Petersburg to destroy the Petersburg Railroad between Stony Creek and the Meherrin River railroad bridge at Hicksford, thereby severing the Confederate supply line. Two . . . — — Map (db m18845) HM
Near Battery Avenue east of South Main Street (U.S. 301).
On this site December 9, 1864 Union General Gouvereur K. Warren with 28,000 troops at his command clashed with troops of Confederate Generals Wade Hampton and Wm. H. F. Lee, in a failed attempt to destroy the railroad bridge and tracks going south. . . . — — Map (db m39795) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) just north of Hicksford Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Dedicated by the Auxiliary to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 5371
to perpetuate the memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice in World War I and II
★ World War I ★
Eugene Bryant •
Thomas M. Bulla • . . . — — Map (db m180462) WM
On North Main Street (U.S. 301) at Valley Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
John Day, a free African American cabinetmaker and brother of Thomas Day, cabinetmaker and builder, was born in Hicksford (present-day Emporia) on 18 Feb. 1797. Licensed in 1821 as a Baptist minister, he sailed in December 1830 to Liberia, where in . . . — — Map (db m18950) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles north of Battery Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
"The railroad bridge was a prime target during the Civil War. The Confederates built three forts on the south side of the bridge and rifle pits and obstructions on the north side. On December 7-12, 1864 the Yankees made their “Hicksford Raid”, . . . — — Map (db m226936) HM
On South Main Street at Spring Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
Robert Hicks was born about 1658. By the 1690s he lived at Fort Henry near Petersburg and led traders to the Indians on the southern frontier. About 1709 he moved here to the future site of Hicksford (present-day Emporia) and became captain of the . . . — — Map (db m18952) HM
Near Battery Avenue east of South Main Street (U.S. 301).
In commemoration
of the
Shiloh
Baptist Church
Emporia, Virginia
Shiloh was one of the
first Black churches founded
in Greensville County
It was founded in 1866
under the leadership of
Rev. Ephriam Royal
Shiloh moved . . . — — Map (db m41511) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) 0.1 miles north of Battery Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
At this point Tarleton, the British cavalryman, crossed the Meherrin River, May 14, 1781. Sent ahead of Cornwallis's army, he had raided through Southampton and Greensville counties. — — Map (db m18941) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) near Hicksford Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
This gun is a memorial to the Veterans of the 1914-1918 World War I
A captured Imperial German Army 150 mm field artillary cannon manufactured by Kkupp Works in 1917
Many thousands of Americans and Allied young men gave their lives in . . . — — Map (db m19181) HM
On Clay Street at Briggs Street, on the right when traveling north on Clay Street. Reported damaged.
Just west of you is the railbed of the original Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, a major supply line to the Confederate army in Petersburg and Richmond. Because of its importance, the Union army made an effort to destroy the line here at Hicksford . . . — — Map (db m18843) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 301) at Briggs Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
Village View, a stately Federal-style mansion, was built about 1795 by James Wall and remodeled in 1823 by Nathaniel Land. It is notable for its elaborate scrollwork in the fanlight and sidelights around the front door, ornately carved mantels, . . . — — Map (db m18844) HM