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Sweet Briar: 35: Sweet Briar House: Sweet Briar House: September 15, 1970 : Southwest of the junction of U.S. Route 29 and Sweet Briar Rd. Sweet Briar: 36: Thompson's Mill-Amherst Mill Complex: Thompson's Mill-Amherst Mill Complex: March 5, 2019
Tusculum was once owned by Elijah Fletcher, whose daughter, Indiana Fletcher Williams, was the founder of Sweet Briar College; [5] it was the childhood home of her mother, Maria Crawford. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] The college collaborated with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to purchase the house for preservation, and in 2006 it ...
Sweet Briar House, also known as Locust Ridge, is a historic home located at Sweet Briar, Amherst County, Virginia. The original house was built about 1825, and was a Federal style brick farmhouse with a hipped roof. The house was extensively remodeled in 1851 in the Italian Villa-style.
James Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an American journalist and social and political commentator.He won a National Book Award in 1974 (category, "Contemporary Affairs") for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al. [1] Reprinted, 1997, with new subtitle The Trial of the Panther 21.
Amherst is located at (37.576899, −79.050424 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km 2), all of it land.. The town is 25 miles southeast of Lexington, 44 miles southwest from Charlottesville, 20 miles northwest from Appomattox, and only 13 miles north of Lynchburg.
Amherst County is served by Amherst County Public Schools, which operates one central high school, two middle schools, and several elementary schools. [16] Temple Christian School is a private school located on the grounds of Temple Baptist Church. [17] Sweet Briar College is also located in Amherst County, just south of the town of Amherst.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Geddes is a historic home located near Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in several stages between about 1762 and the mid-19th century. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Colonial era frame house of post and beam construction with a hipped roof. It is referred to as the oldest house in Amherst County by area residents.