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The Meadow Event Park (also called "The Meadow") is an event center in Doswell, Virginia. Previously called the Meadow Stables, the park hosts the annual State Fair of Virginia. On March 14, 2013, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation bought the State Fair of Virginia and the Meadow Event Park from Universal Fairs LLC of Cordova, Tennessee. [1]
Southern States Cooperative is an American farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area. Southern States Cooperative supplies small, medium, and large commercial farmers with livestock and animal feed, pasture seed, vegetable seed, farm fertilizers, farm supplies, bulk fuel, and crop services, including information and products to grow better crops.
Powhatan Rural Historic District, formerly "Powhatan Hill Plantation" and originally "Hopyard Plantation", is a national historic district located near King George, King George County, Virginia. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures in a rural area near King George.
The farm was part of the original 5,000 acres that Jefferson owned. [3] It was a quarter farm, [ 4 ] located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Monticello's main house gates. [ 3 ] The property was named for Lady Caroline Tufton ( Tufton, Pembrokeshire § Name ) by Martha Jefferson Randolph , Tufton was her schoolmate in Paris. [ 5 ]
Curles Neck, was founded in the Varina district of Henrico on 750 acres granted to Ancient Planter Thomas Harris, family seat of the Harris branch of the First Families of Virginia, at the request of Sir Thomas Dale for Harris's service in the early years of the colony. The original house built by Harris in 1633 is one of the oldest in Virginia ...
The district was preserved following attempts in the early 1970s by then Governor Linwood Holton, a Republican, and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Welfare and Institutions, to build a diagnostic and detention center on 200 acres owned by Richard Purcell, brother of longtime politician turned Circuit Judge Harold Purcell. [6]
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In 2021, it was rated the best museum in the Shenandoah Valley by Virginia Living [5] and by the Daily News-Record. [6] The house later known as the Worcestershire House was a very old house in Hartlebury, England, dismantled and re-assembled at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, in 1992. The John Smith (Smyth or Smythe) family built it ...