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On South Broad Street (Virginia Route 40) near Main Street (Virginia Route 40), on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Two miles south of Kenbridge stood Craig's Mill on Flat Rock Creek. There flour was ground and supplies were stored for the Revolutionary army. Tarleton, the British cavalryman, burned the mill in July, 1781, when raiding through the Southside. Rev. . . . — — Map (db m31868) HM
On South Broad Street (Virginia Route 40) at Main Street (Virginia Route 40), on the right when traveling south on South Broad Street.
Two miles southwest of Kenbridge stood Craig's Mill on Flat Rock Creek. The Rev. James Craig, minister of Cumberland Parish and proponent of American independence, purchased the property in 1775 and built a complex that included a fulling and grist . . . — — Map (db m182556) HM
On South Broad Street (Virginia Route 40) just south of East 5th Avenue (Virginia Route 137), on the right when traveling north.
Near this intersection stood Kennedy's Store, one of the first buildings, and early post office, of "Tinkling." This is the original store building with Mr. William F. Kennedy standing in the doorway. The land had formerly been owned by William . . . — — Map (db m182554) HM
On Blackstone Road (Virginia Route 40) 0.4 miles north of Fletcher Chapel Road (Virginia Route 601), on the left when traveling north.
Lunenburg County. Lunenburg County was formed in 1746 from Brunswick County. Named for King George II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a German possession of England's Hanoverian kings, Lunenburg County's territory originally included the . . . — — Map (db m31878) HM
On Shade Street at South Broad Street, on the left when traveling east on Shade Street. Reported damaged.
In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August V. Kautz south of Petersburg on a cavalry raid to destroy track and . . . — — Map (db m20172) HM
On South Hill Road (Virginia Route 138) at Brickland Road (County Route 613), on the left when traveling south on South Hill Road.
Three miles west stood St. John’s Protestant
Episcopal Church of Cumberland Parish. Bishop
William Meade consecrated the building, later
known as St. John’s Woodend, in 1832. The Rev.
Charles C. Taliaferro was its first minister. The
church’s . . . — — Map (db m107697) HM
On South Broad Street (Virginia Route 40) at Main Street (Virginia Route 40), on the right when traveling south on South Broad Street.
Kenbridge was settled during the late nineteenth century as a farming community. It was originally named Tinkling for a post office that was established here in Feb. 1890. The Virginia Railway laid its track through the community by 1907 and a . . . — — Map (db m31869) HM
