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Roughly bounded by Jamestown Rd., Griffin Ave., Pollard Park, and the College of William and Mary maintenance yard 37°16′06″N 76°42′37″W / 37.2683°N 76.7103°W / 37.2683; -76.7103 ( Chandler Court and Pollard Park Historic
In 1624, Abraham Piersey, Cape Merchant of the Virginia Company, purchased Flowerdew Hundred renaming it Piersey's Hundred. Piersey's Stone House was the first home with a permanent foundation in the colony. The 1624 Muster lists approximately sixty occupants at the settlement, including some of the first Africans in Virginia.
Town of Fairmount (incorporated 1902) in Henrico County was annexed by the City of Richmond in 1914. [3] Town of Ginter Park in Henrico County was annexed by the City of Richmond. Town of Goodson (1856–1890) became the independent City of Bristol (name change) Town of Highland Park in Henrico County was annexed by the City of Richmond in 1914 ...
In the Virginia muster of 1624/25, both Farrar and Cecily Jordan were listed as heads of the Jordan's Journey household; [17] by 1625, they were married. [18]: 8, 57 During this time, Jordan's Journey grew: In February 1624, 42 people were living there; [16]: 171 by January 1624, it had grown to 56 people. [17]: 209–213
William & Mary's Williamsburg campus is subdivided into several areas. The Old College Yard at the west end of Duke of Gloucester Street comprises the Wren Building, Brafferton, and President's House. Old Campus is defined as the area between Jamestown Road and Richmond Road west of the College Yard, east of Landrum Drive.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Richmond: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, 1978. ISBN 978-0-88490-008-5. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Virginia Colonial Register. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1902. OCLC 253261475, Retrieved July 15, 2011. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography ...
East of VA-288, Route 60 continues a few miles into the community of Midlothian. From this point east, the road becomes almost a continuous business district and widens to six lanes through the urban parts of Chesterfield County and the westernmost portion in the city of Richmond. U.S. 60 in the Richmond area enters on Midlothian Turnpike.