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Sweet Briar: 35: Sweet Briar House: Sweet Briar House: September 15, 1970 : Southwest of the junction of U.S. Route 29 and Sweet Briar Rd. Sweet Briar: 36: Thompson's Mill-Amherst Mill Complex: Thompson's Mill-Amherst Mill Complex: March 5, 2019
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Initially, Sweet Briar was the Fletchers' summer residence, but they moved there year-round in 1846. By 1850, Fletcher owned between 80 and 100 slaves in Amherst County plantations, [ 14 ] Meanwhile, in 1825 Elijah Fletcher founded The Virginian newspaper. [ 15 ]
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Sep. 23—The 16th Annual Briar Patch Trade Days returns October 5 and 6 in Barns D and E at the Ector County Coliseum. Over 120 vendors from West Texas and beyond attend the event, where you can ...
Tusculum was once owned by Elijah Fletcher, whose daughter, Indiana Fletcher Williams, was the founder of Sweet Briar College; [5] it was the childhood home of her mother, Maria Crawford. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] The college collaborated with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to purchase the house for preservation, and in 2006 it ...
A 1951 building in west Fort Worth used as a cafe for TV’s “Landman” will become a real-life restaurant, as seen June 6, 2024.
Amherst is located at (37.576899, −79.050424 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km 2), all of it land.. The town is 25 miles southeast of Lexington, 44 miles southwest from Charlottesville, 20 miles northwest from Appomattox, and only 13 miles north of Lynchburg.