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Amelia Court House (also known as Amelia Courthouse and Amelia) is the county seat of Amelia County in the U.S. state of Virginia [2] [3] and a census-designated place (CDP). [4] The population as of the 2010 census was 1,099. [5] The town was named for Princess Amelia of Great Britain, the second daughter of Great Britain's King George II, in ...
A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.
Morven is a rural unincorporated community in northwestern Amelia County just south of the Appomattox River in the U.S. state of Virginia.It is located in Leigh District [2] at the intersection of SR 681 (Clementown Road) and SR 616 (S. Genito Road), northwest of Flat Creek.
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]
Paineville is a rural unincorporated community in western Amelia County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located in Leigh District [1] around the intersections of SR 616 (S. Genito Road) with SR 644 (Fowlkes Bridge Road / Rocky Ford Road). Paineville straddles the border of ZIP codes 23002 (Amelia Court House) and 23083 (Jetersville).
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.
Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia; the peninsula is bordered by the Rappahannock River on the north and King and Queen County on the south. As of the 2020 census , the population was 10,599. [ 1 ]
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 ...