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Pittsylvania County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 60,501. [1] The county seat is Chatham. Pittsylvania County is included in the Danville, VA Micropolitan Statistical Area. [2] The largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the United States (7th largest in the world) is located in ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pittsylvania 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.
Sharswood Plantation, also known as Sharswood Manor Estate, is a historic plantation house in Gretna, Virginia. Prior to the American Civil War, Sharswood operated as a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation under the ownership of Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller.
Chatham is a town in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Pittsylvania County. [5] Chatham's population was 1,232 at the 2020 census. [2] It is included in the Danville, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town was originally called Competition, but the name was changed to Chatham by the Virginia ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
John Wilson (ca 1740 – 1820) was an American patriot, planter, merchant and politician who represented Pittsylvania County, Virginia three times in the Virginia House of Delegates as well as at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, and later helped found the town of Danville which now owns a home erected by his son [1] [2]
Peter Perkins (March 26, 1739 – February 12, 1813) was an American patriot, planter and politician who represented Pittsylvania County, Virginia during the final session of the House of Burgesses, several of the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions and in the first session of the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as led the county militia during the American Revolutionary War.
Two Virginia Historical Markers were established relating to Whitmell P. Tunstall: Whitmell P. Tunstall (L-48) marker is located about one mile south of Chatham in Pittsylvania County. It is on the east side of U.S. Highway 29 at Tightsqueeze just south of the Fairview Road intersection. The marker text reads "One mile east stands Belle Grove ...