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Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument is a historic church located at Manakin, Powhatan County, Virginia. Built in 1700 by French Huguenots, Protestant refugees, it was moved to its current location in 1710. It burned down in the Revolutionary War and was later rebuilt with parts of the original building. It is in what is called the Carpenter ...
SR 147 connects Midlothian with the West End of Richmond via the Huguenot Memorial Bridge across the James River. Within Richmond, the state highway follows Cary Street, a major thoroughfare that connects the city's two major universities, the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University , with Downtown Richmond .
In that year the English King William III granted 10,000 acres of land in Virginia from to the Marquis Olivier de la Muce, a French aristocrat and Huguenot who had been imprisoned in the Castle of Nantes on the Isle of Re before escaping to England some ten years earlier. Fellow Huguenots ultimately created the colony of Manakin on the banks of ...
Today that state has the largest number of members in the Huguenot Society, a lineage association. Present-day State Route 288 and State Route 711 run about a mile east of the former town. The 1895 Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument, the fourth church building constructed there, is maintained by the Huguenot Society. [ 7 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Huguenot is an unincorporated community in Powhatan County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
SR 711 (Huguenot Trail / Robious Road) Diamond interchange; former SR 44: James River: 25.24: 40.62: World War II Veterans Memorial Bridge: Goochland 26.81: 43.15: SR 6 (Patterson Avenue) – Goochland, Richmond: Cloverleaf interchange; no direct access from SR 288 south to SR 6 west 27.45: 44.18: SR 1250 (West Creek Parkway) to SR 6 west
Huguenot Memorial Bridge is located in Henrico County and the independent city of Richmond, Virginia.It carries State Route 147 across the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (now the James River Line of CSX Transportation), the James River and Kanawha Canal, and the James River in the Fall Line region above the head of navigation at Richmond.