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Claypool Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,776 at the 2010 census, which was up from the 1,719 reported in 2000. Claypool is part of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578.
The Claypool Hill Mall broke ground in 1981, at the intersection of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 460. [1] Located on approximately 25 acres of land, planned anchors called for a 55,552 square foot Kmart store, a then unnamed 41,586 square foot department store, a 28,875 square foot Piggly Wiggly, and a 10,125 square foot space for a drug store. [1]
Major companies involved included; Black Heath, Midlothian, Clover Hill, etc. During the American Civil War , the mines supplied coal and coke for the Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond. In May 1864, Union Army officer August Kautz lead a cavalry raid targeting the Richmond and Danville Railway through Chesterfield County.
Located along the banks of the Clinch River, Richlands began as a farming community and was named for its fertile "rich lands.". Miners at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, 1974
In 1841, the Clover Hill Railroad was created to haul coal from the Clover Hill Pits, to the Osborne Landing Docks and later Bermuda Hundred dock to be transported by barge over the ocean to the Northern States. In 1848 the Clover Hill Railroad had produced 56,000 tons of coal for export and 22,000 tons for use in Richmond and Petersburg. [3]
Most gold mining in Virginia was concentrated in the Virginia Gold-Pyrite belt in a line that runs northeast to southwest through the counties of Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford, Fauquier, Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Goochland, Cumberland, and Buckingham.
Boissevain is an unincorporated community, census-designated place (CDP), and former coal town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States.It was defined as a census-designated place (then termed an unincorporated place) at the 1950 United States census under the spelling Boissevaine, when it had a population of 1,197. [2]
The Clover Hill Pits were coal mines from 1837 to 1883. Many of the miners lived in this town. Many of the miners lived in this town. Winterpock was named after the old name of the plantation, named after Winterpock Creek, possibly named by Native Americans as "Win-to-poa-ke". [ 2 ]