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Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River) Pollard; Prairie County ("prairie, meadow") Saline County [35] Sans Souci (literally without concern) Segur (French city) Sevier County; Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert, "covered way") [34] Soudan; St. Francis County; Terre Noire (black earth) [35] Terre ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Liberty, Halifax County, Virginia; List of census-designated places in Virginia; List of cities and counties in Virginia; Mayo Creek (Hyco River tributary) Midway (near Scottsburg), Halifax County, Virginia; Morris Branch (Hyco River tributary) Mountain Road, Virginia; Nathalie, Virginia; National Register of Historic Places listings in Halifax ...
St. Paul, Virginia is a town located in the Appalachian Mountains along the Clinch River. It began as a French Huguenot settlement overlooking the river in 1791, during the Cherokee-American wars . Since the creation of WIse County in 1858, it has been located partially in Wise and partly in the older Russell County .
A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.
The extinct counties of Virginia (alphabetically) are: Alexandria County (1749–1791) and (1846–1920) (was part of the District of Columbia 1791-1846), changed its name to become Arlington County in 1920; Charles River County (1637–1643) renamed York County; Dunmore County (1772–1778) renamed Shenandoah County
David Benbennick made the outline map modified here. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 15 September 2009, 18:33 (UTC) Source: File:Virginia counties and independent cities map.gif; File:Map of Virginia highlighting Floyd County.svg; Author: File:Virginia counties and independent cities map.gif: User:JosN