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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chesterfield 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.
Moseley is an unincorporated area in Powhatan and Chesterfield counties in the U.S. state of Virginia.It is located to the west of the metropolitan Richmond area. The United States Post Office for the community is located at 21431 Hull Street Road, with a ZIP code of 23120.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Charlotte 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.
Summerville Plantation was a farm in northwestern Chesterfield County, Virginia. Established around the 1760s by Robert Moseley, Summerville was home to many prominent Chesterfield families until its decay following the American Civil War. In the late 1900s the tract was built over by new housing developments.
Manchester Wall is a rock climbing area located in downtown Richmond, Virginia that offers multiple routes for traditional climbing, sport climbing, and top roping.The sixty-foot granite wall is a remnant of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, which spanned the James River for much of the nineteenth century.
Wilfred Elders, an emeritus professor of geology at the University of California-Riverside and a former chairman of the Education Committee of the Geothermal Resources Council of the US stated, "The Seven Wonders Creation Museum is an example of the 'best' and the 'worst' of the young-Earth creationist movement.
Falkenstein, in Saxon Switzerland where routes above grade 6a (5.10a) were first climbed in 1906. [11]1848: Sebastian Abratzky [], a local chimney sweep, enters the hill-top Königstein Fortress by climbing a chimney in the sandstone plateau to avoid the entrance fee; this is now considered the first free climb in the Saxon Switzerland climbing region, and is today a climbing route called ...
Old Rag Mountain is underlain by Old Rag Granite, named for its ubiquitous exposure on the mountain, formed during the Grenville Orogeny about a billion years ago. About 400 million years after the Grenville orogeny during the Catoctin Formation, deposition of basaltic magma occurred during the formation of the Iapetus Ocean, forming a layer of greenstone over the granite.