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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Casa de Rosas, also known as the Froebel Institute and the Sunshine Mission, is a historic building in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. It is the oldest women's shelter in Los Angeles. It is the oldest women's shelter in Los Angeles.
The Pythian Sisters have a youth affiliate, the Pythian Sunshine Girls, started in 1930. [6] It is open to girls 8–20 and has local Councils in Arizona , New Mexico , California , Ohio , Virginia and Texas , with some interest expressed in creating Councils in Kentucky and Michigan . [ 6 ]
Bowling Green Historic District is a national historic district located at Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.The district encompasses 169 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the historic core of Bowling Green.
When in October 1972 Governor Holton suggested obtaining sufficient conservation easements (permitted by the Virginia Open-Space Land Act of 1966) by next March could change his mind about constructing the prison at Green Springs, more than 7000 acres were placed under easement by that spring, compared to less than a thousand acres in Virginia ...
Vivian W. Pinn (born 1941), Lynchburg, pathologist and women's health advocate; Elizabeth Bray Allen, also known as Elizabeth Bray Allen Smith Stith (c. 1692–1774), Isle of Wight County, planter and philanthropist; Karenne Wood (1960–2019), Fluvanna County, Virginia Indian scholar and advocate
"Mental defectives in Virginia: A Special Report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections to the General Assembly of Nineteen Sixteen on Weak-mindedness in the State of Virginia - Together with a Plan for Training, Segregation and Prevention of the Procreation of the Feeble-minded" (PDF). wikisource. 1915.
The monument was first proposed in 2009 [3] and established by joint resolution of the Virginia General Assembly in 2010. [1] An 18-member commission, along with input from the Library of Virginia and professors of women's history, selected the women to be honored with statues sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York. The granite plaza and ...