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The word "Chula" was likely derived from a Native American word meaning "fox" or "red fox". [5] [6] The town apparently was founded in the 1850s as a stop on the recently completed rail line from the state capital: Chula is notably absent on a map of Amelia County circa 1850; [7] but a postal facility using the name "Chula Depot" was established in 1857, [8] and an 1860 map shows the town as a ...
Paineville straddles the border of ZIP codes 23002 (Amelia Court House) and 23083 (Jetersville). The community has its own fire station, Amelia County Volunteer Fire Department Company 5. A portion of the segment of U.S. Bicycle Route 1 that runs southwest from Richmond follows SR 616 through Paineville.
David Greenhill Member of the Colonial House of Burgesses; Edmund Harrison (1764–1826), Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (1802–1803) John Winston Jones, (1791–1848), born in Amelia County. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [22] Nellie A. Ramsey Leslie (c.1840s–c.1920s), born into slavery in Amelia County. [23]
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Virginia.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
Arlington Post Office, 3118 N. Washington Boulevard, Arlington, Arlington County, VA: 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey; Miller, Richard E. (June 16, 2016). Fisher, Bernard (ed.). " "Arlington Post Office" marker". HMdB: The Historical Marker Database. Archived from the original on November 2, 2018
The C. Bascom Slemp Federal Building, also known as the Big Stone Gap Post Office and U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic courthouse and post office building located in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor and built between 1911
A Vermont post office, located on New England Drive in Essex Junction, is getting a pricey makeover, courtesy of the U.S Postal Service. Essex Junction post office tapped for $9 million makeover ...
The Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Customhouse, is a historic custom house, post office and courthouse located in Richmond, Virginia. Originally constructed in 1858, it was for decades a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the United ...