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Otterdale was a farm located east of Otterdale Road close to the Swift Creek Reservoir in Chesterfield County, Virginia.The main house was originally built by Col. Woodson W. Hancock (1789 - 1883) in 1834 and was a 1½-story central-passage house.
Location of Chesterfield County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesterfield County, Virginia. 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 ...
Besides the general cuisine of the Southern United States, Virginia maintains its own particular traditions. Smithfield ham, sometimes called Virginia ham, is a type of country ham which is protected by state law, and can only be produced in the town of Smithfield. [8] Barbecue in Virginia is similar to barbecue in North Carolina. It is mostly ...
South. Ham – especially country ham – is a more common Christmas main dish in the South than elsewhere in the country, along with sides including mac & cheese and cornbread.Lechon, or spit ...
The dinner plate is a pretty solid mess of ham, turkey, stuffing, potatoes, salad, dinner rolls and plenty of green bean casserole. Minimal yams.
Black: Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774). Area west of this line in present-day Southwest VA was ceded by the Cherokee in 1775. The 1646 treaty delineated a racial frontier between Indian and English settlements, with members of each group forbidden to cross to the other side except by special pass obtained at one of the newly erected border forts.
Chesterfield County is a county located just south of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county's borders are primarily defined by the James River to the north and the Appomattox River to the south. Its county seat is Chesterfield Court House. [1] Chesterfield County was formed in 1749 from parts of Henrico County.
The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia.