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The Farmville Herald is a biweekly newspaper serving Buckingham, Cumberland and Prince Edward counties and the Town of Farmville. Thanks to a partnership with the Farmville Herald, Longwood University, and the Library of Virginia, the Farmville Herald is being digitized and now available on Virginia Chronicle [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, pp. 130– 137, ISBN 9780403021956 – via Google Books; Harrison A. Trexler. "The Davis Administration and the Richmond Press, 1861–1865," Journal of Southern History, 16 (May 1950), 177–195. Ted Tunnell.
A History of the Black Press. Howard University Press. ISBN 9780882581927. Smith, Jessie Carney (2012). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578593699. Suggs, Henry Lewis (1983). "Virginia". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. ISBN 9780313222443.
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Israel Hill developed as a community of free black people in Prince Edward County, Virginia along the Appomattox River around 1810. [1] The will of Richard Randolph emancipated all the slave at Randolph's death in 1796.
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Between 1795 and 1890, Farmville was the end of the line for the Upper Appomattox Canal Navigation System, built to improve navigation on the river. Enslaved African Americans built the canal system that allowed commodity crops of tobacco and farm produce to be loaded on a James River bateau in Farmville and shipped to Petersburg, Virginia.