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Midland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 218. [1] Midland is home to a post office with the local ZIP code of 22728. Midland is the closest community to the birthplace of John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice in U.S. Supreme Court history. A small ...
Midlothian (/ m ɪ d ˈ l oʊ θ i ə n / mid-LOH-thee-ən) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region. [4]
Unlike SR 28, which today contains none of its original routing, SR 10's route between Garysville and Suffolk is largely unchanged from 1918. Much of the rest of SR 10's original approximately 570-mile route – west of Petersburg and east of Suffolk – was replaced by the introduction of U.S. Routes 11 , 58 , and 460 in the late 1920s and ...
The Bray-Digges House in October 2021. The Williamsburg Bray School was a school for free and enslaved Black children founded in 1760 in Williamsburg, Virginia. [1] Opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion in 1760, the school educated potentially hundreds of students until its closure in 1774. [2]
The Colonial Williamsburg Bray School taught Black children and is being restored 250 years later. The school house first opened on Sept. 29, 1760, and is now being preserved and honored.
Collegiate was founded in 1915, by Helen Baker as the Collegiate School for Girls, a college preparatory school located in downtown Richmond. In addition to this campus in town, Collegiate opened the Collegiate Country Day School, off Mooreland and River Roads, in 1953 Collegiate's Town School and the Country Day School merged on Mooreland Road in 1960.
The original school sat at the intersection of Eighth Street and Marshall Street, and was Richmond's first public high school when it opened. It was located behind the historic John Marshall House. [1] [3] In late 1959, ground was broken for a replacement high school on the grounds of the old Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital.
Belle Isle is a 54 acre island in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the James River, and is part of the James River Park System.It is accessible to pedestrian and bicycle traffic via a suspension footbridge that runs under the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge from the northern shore or via a wooden bridge from the southern shore.