The Messenger OF THE CHESTERFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA

Number 94 July 2010

July Quarterly Meeting Sunday, July 25, 2010, 2 p.m., Historic Ettrick Methodist Parsonage, 21300 Chesterfield Ave. IN THIS ISSUE For our July Quarterly Meeting and Ice Cream Social, the Ettrick Events 2 Historical Society (EHS) is graciously allowing us to visit them at the President’s Letter 2 Historic Parsonage behind Ettrick United Methodist Church. This Membership Reports 3 historic building is now home to the EHS. This graceful old house was Lithia Springs 3 built about 1850 as a private residence; possibly as an overseer’s house Portrait of Two Brothers 3-5 for an Ettrick Plantation. It became the Manse for the church early in Tavern Talk Fundraiser 5 the 20th century. The early Federal architectural design was added onto Magnolia Grange Donation 6 in 1860 in a more ornate style. Originally it was built as a two-story, Fundraising 6 five bay front structure with extended end chimneys and having a side William Bolling Diary 7-8 passage plan dwelling. Along with the second refurbishing came a Lord Chesterfield 8-9 large one-room addition which made it a center-passage plan. We will WWII Veterans 9-10 be holding the Ice Cream Social in the backyard, so please bring your Early African American Churches 11-13 own lawn chair and some bug repellant. Come and meet members School Board Minutes 14-15 of Ettrick Historical Society plus renew friendships with those in the Event Details 16 Chesterfield Historical Society. Save the Date: Mark your calendars for th October 25 , the next Quarterly Meeting at Trabue’s Tavern, a renovated Midlothian tavern, now a residence of descendents of the original owner. This private home is not open to the public, but you will have a chance to view their loving restoration as a member of CHS.

Mission Statement The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia serves as the center for Chesterfield County history. Its purposes are to collect, preserve, interpret and promote the county’s unique past for the education of present and future generations Chesterfield Historical Society CHS Events th of Virginia July 17 , Sat, 11am Celebrate Chesterfield Lecture: Larry Holt, ―The Historic Castlewood Appomattox River & Canal‖ (Magnolia Grange) Free th 10201 Iron Bridge Road, P.O. Box 40, July 25 , Sun, 2pm CHSV Members Quarterly Meeting & Ice Cream Chesterfield, VA 23832 Social (“The Manse” at Ettrick Methodist Church) www.chesterfieldhistory.com Free th [email protected] July 26 , Mon, 6:30 pm ―Tavern Talk with Gov. George Allen‖ (Howlett’s Tavern, Chester) Dinner Reservations required

(804)930-1034, to benefit CHSV

Aug 14th, Sat, 11am Celebrate Chesterfield Lecture: Bettie Weaver, ―The Huguenots & Religious Liberty‖ (Magnolia Grange)

See the detailed event information on the back cover. View our website Officers for the most up to date information on any event. - editor President –Liess van der Linden-Brusse 1st Vice-President – Dr. Jean von Schilling 2nd Vice-President – Jim Alberston From the President – Recording Secretary – The final outcome of the County’s FY 2011 budget crisis was positive. With your Corresponding Secretary – support and a financial contribution of $32,000 from the Society’s bank account, we Treasurer — Jim Evans have managed to keep Magnolia Grange, Castlewood and the Museum open and retained the part-time services of Tamara Evans, Diane Dallmeyer and Pat Roble, Directors respectively. In addition, Bryan Truzzie will continue in his full-time position as Mike Poarch David Goobic Mike Thomas Historic Sites Specialist. Sadly, it was not possible to save Holly Rush’s position as Don Wells John D. Hughes, Jr. Therese well. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Holly for the many years she has Wagenknecht Lynn Waymack W. Guy Smith George Cranford worked with us and to wish her every success in the future. Past President – Dr. Peter Lipowicz

Fundraising remains a priority and our effort to reach our goal of $25,000 is Committee Chairs progressing steadily. During this past quarter, we have raised $7,484 which brings Cemetery – Rachel Lipowicz 804-739-7225 our total for this year to $15,973 … only a little more than $9,000 to go! Special Finance – Jim Evans thanks go to our Fundraising Committee, led by past-president Peter Lipowicz. Library – Liess van der Linden-Brusse Membership –– Rachel Lipowicz We hope you will join us at the July Members Quarterly Meeting & Ice Cream Military History – Scott Williams Social, to be held in ―The Manse‖ at Ettrick Methodist Church (please see the cover Genealogy – Angie Wilderman Events - Liess van der Linden-Brusse article for details). In addition to being fun, this meeting is also important because you, Collections- George Cranford the members, will be asked to vote on the new slate of directors to serve on our Board. African-American – Cornelia Owens Goode We thank the Governance Committee, led by David Goobic, for their commitment to Archaeology – Bryan Truzzie the nominating process and look forward to welcoming our new directors. Fundraising – Peter Lipowicz

On May 8th, our new exhibit opened at the Museum – World War II, the 65th County Staff Anniversary of VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day). The event attracted many Diane Dallmeyer – Administrative Assistant Chesterfield County WWII veterans whose service continues to inspire; we were Tamara Evans - Gift Shop Manager honored by their presence. The exhibit will remain through the end of the year and Pat Roble - Museum Bryan Truzzie – Historic Sites Specialist we thank the Museum staff and our Collections Committee, led by Jean von

Schilling, for their dedication to this unique project. Hours of Operation Castlewood 10-4 M-F Volunteers are the life blood of our Society. Every aspect of our non-profit Magnolia Grange 10-4 Tu-F & 10-2 Sat organization depends on the involvement and enthusiasm of volunteers. Right now, Museum 10-4 Tu-F & 10-2 Sat we need volunteers at all three historic sites as well as in every committee. We need docents, researchers, event coordinators and help with fundraising. Whether you Phone Numbers enjoy working with children or adults, in a group or on your own, whether you can Castlewood 796-7121 & 796-7191(Holly) give a few hours or a full day, please call Diane at (804)796-7121. Magnolia Grange & Gift Shop 804-796-1479 Museum – 768-7311 Reservations (804)796-7003 In a year when the Society has suffered budget and staff losses, it’s a privilege to have the gift of volunteers’ time and talents. Thank you. Liess van der Linden-Brusse Messenger Editor Peter Lipowicz From the Messenger editor – please e-mail by Sept 10 any submissions you would like to see in The Messenger to [email protected].

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Chesterfield County Lithia Springs The Civil War – A Portrait of Two Brothers Hazel Bowman Cole Beverley Condrey Berry Beaufont Lithia Springs were located near the present site of The roots of my father’s family have long been in Chesterfield Beaufont Mall on Midlothian Turnpike at Chippenham Parkway. County. The earliest recorded settlement of our Condrey During WWII ancestors in the County was 1751, more than one hundred years a Mr. Sittering after the first Condrey arrived in Virginia and at least that long owned the representing four generations. They had migrated from the spring. He earliest recorded land ownership in Lancaster and New Kent also owned Counties in the 17th Century. My great-great-grandfather, Rich Brau William Henry Condrey, and his brother Jefferson, captured my Beer, sold attention while researching family history. During initial ginger ale, and research I relied on a family bible transcription that listed ―the owned a children of William H. Condrey.‖ My great-grandfather, Irving baseball team. Richard Condrey born in 1861, was one of William’s eleven This children. information comes from William (b. 1820) and Jefferson (b. 1821) were born to Claiborne my brother and Nancy Farmer Condrey who were married in Chesterfield who worked at Tomahawk Service Station and General Store. March 1807. They also had a brother Thomas and sisters, [The the spring and spring house are extant on the current site of Elizabeth, Howlett Page (b. 1818), and Mary. They lived in the The Boulders office park. These photos show the house on a Condrey/Mann House built in 1800, located on or near property stone foundation that is now part of Pocahontas State Park. This property was and the spring water situated on a slight rise surrounded by cultivated fields south of pond – editor] Swift Creek in the central part of the County. It is considered to Fonticello Lithia have been a one- or one and one half-story central-passage plan was located on that was later enlarged to a two-story structure. It had a Bainbridge Street prominent Flemish bond chimney on the east gable end of the between 27th and house and set on a recorded 126 acres. As Claiborne’s oldest 29th Streets. It is son, William would have been the primary heir upon his father’s now in Carter Jones death in 1830. He and his brothers and sisters continued to live Park in Richmond, here with their mother, Nancy, until William established his which was family. I wonder at the challenge of ensuring the three sisters’ previously futures, after their father’s death, by accomplishing appropriate Fonticello Park. My parents got our drinking water from the marriages, especially as historical records show that they all were spring as late as 1940. As a child, I would go to baseball games married in late 1837; Mary to James Lockett on 6 November, at this park. Holly Lithia Springs was located near the corner of Howlett to Lawson Lockett on 4 December and Elizabeth to Maury Street and Edward Sims on 26 December! Holly Spring Street. The Civil War WILLIAM batteries joined this William married Sarah Elizabeth Clarke (b. 1825) in September property as well as 1843. Her father was Jeremiah Clarke and the witness was listed Maury Cemetery. as Napoleon Clarke. The Reverend William B. Belcher Virginia Lithia at performed the service on 6 September. Almost exactly one year Osceola – I can later, their first daughter Cornelia was born. Eight more children provide a little were to follow in the coming. information about the article in April’s Although the Union Army marched up Buckingham Road and Messenger. The through Midlothian in May 1864, intending to destroy railroad crossing Chesterfield’s railroads, no combat is known to have occurred in was at 17th and Dock Streets. The three deck crossing was the immediate vicinity. Compiled Service Records gathered by constructed in 1900. The Chesapeake and Ohio track was at the the National Archives confirms that William enlisted in the top level. Seaboard Air Line was at the middle level. And the Confederate Army on May 6, 1864 in Chesterfield County, Southern Railway was at the bottom level. There is one more Virginia. He was part of the 1st Virginia Reserves, Company G spring I know about, Swinford Arsenic Lithia, but I have no also known as Farinholt’s Reserves. Perhaps this enlistment was other information about it. in response to the imminent threat of the Union Army’s presence in Chesterfield, or the Conscription Acts effective July 1863 and Membership Committee Report February 1864 that applied to men between the ages of 18 to 45, Rachel Lipowicz and 17 to 50, respectively; William was 44 when he enlisted. Membership stands at 559 members. Farinholt’s Reserves were highly distinguished for their defense of the Staunton River Bridge in June 1864. General Lee and his

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Army of Northern Virginia were desperately trying to defend that any additional military records for Jefferson are lost as a Petersburg and for nine months counted on a consistent flow of result of this filing error, but what is available confirms that he supplies from the south and west, via the Southside and was captured and sent to a prisoner of war stockade at David’s Richmond & Danville Railroads. The Union’s goal was to Island, New York. There are no Union records to confirm where destroy these supply lines and ensure Lee’s abandonment of he was captured or when, only that he was transferred from the Petersburg. Captain Farinholt had advance warning of this stockade to De Camp General Hospital at David’s Island on 1 impending danger and sent out a call for assistance, asking for July 1865 and then died there a week later of chronic diarrhea. volunteers to stand with his 296 reserves to face a 5,000 man He was buried 8 July 1865 at Cypress Hill Cemetery in Union force. Confederate regulars totaling 150 men, and 492 Brooklyn, New York. Jefferson is one of 461 Confederate ―old men and young boys‖ answered the call, bolstering soldiers buried at this National Cemetery amongst approximately Farinholt’s contingent to 938. With help from Confederate 14,000 Union soldiers. The Veteran’s Administration provided cavalry pressuring from the rear, the Union’s multiple assaults on an inscribed marker at some later date. the bridge were repulsed. Documentation suggests that William was one of those 296 reserves. Jefferson’s soldier family was Company D, referred to as the Chesterfield Central Guards and all considered riflemen. This A Confederate muster report for November/December 1864 unit was part of the 14th Virginia Infantry that was organized in records that William was ―absent, on detached service with May 1861 with much of their first year spent fortifying defenses EN.(engineer) Officer since November 17, 1864.‖ This would along the James River in case of naval attacks from the Federal have been the Engineer Corp established by the Confederate positions near Norfolk. The summer of 1863 saw the 14th in Congress in 1863 tasked with prescribing the number, form and Pennsylvania, participating with so many at the pivotal Battle of dimensions of the wagons, pontoons, trestles, tools, implements, Gettysburg. Among the thousands of deaths that decisive July, arms and other necessaries for all the troops in the field. Besides there were 160 men of the 14th that were missing or unaccounted officers and non-coms, each engineering unit would include for. The soldiers that were captured here were sent to one of artificers (a skilled worker or craftsperson) and laborers. Troops three Union POW camps; Fort Delaware in the Delaware River were drawn from each field division with selection based on their near Wilmington where most of the Confederates captured were experience in the mining or construction trades. The 1st imprisoned; Point Lookout, Maryland established 1 August 1863 Engineers Regiment organized at Richmond in the fall of 1863 and considered one of the worst Union POW camps, or David’s and was responsible for some of the following projects: road Island, New York, a relatively benign camp that had originally repair in Richmond; repair of railroads and bridges; prison guard been used solely for Federal wounded. Prisoners here were duty; construction of Bevil’s Bridge over the Appomattox River; confined only by geography and physical disability and a pontoon bridge over the Staunton River and a pontoon bridge Confederate sympathizers in New York City were allowed to over the Appomattox River at Goode’s Bridge. There is no clear visit and bring provisions. indication of the projects to which William might have contributed but it is clear that this was a way for older men to The units of the 14th Infantry were never the same after the render their skills in the service of their new nation. If William devastation of Gettysburg and after making their way back to was indeed an artificer, he had a much sought after position Virginia, they rested at Petersburg over the winter. By the spring among the regular engineer soldiers. It offered a pay raise and of 1864, the 14th Virginia was sent to North Carolina to battle often relief from some of the hardest duties. Union forces but was ordered back to Richmond after an unsuccessful campaign. In May, they were sent south to support He was paroled in Manchester, Virginia on 27 April 1865, about the defense of Chester Station. They sustained casualties in the two weeks after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. He would have hundreds during this engagement and were withdrawn to walked or ridden approximately 20 miles to his home near Richmond to guard the city against any raids that might be Winterpock, to find his wife and nine children waiting for him, forthcoming. After a brief march to assist General Lee at including a baby son he’d probably never seen. And, perhaps, Spotsylvania Courthouse, the men of the 14th would remain along there was a letter from his brother Jefferson who was being held the trenches that were Richmond’s protection for the next year. in a prisoner of war camp in New York. By the spring of 1865, the Confederacy was on the verge of JEFFERSON collapse and there was little hope of reversing this eventuality. Jefferson married his brother William’s sister-in-law, Martha F. There was to be one last battle on Virginia soil prior to the Clarke (b. 1828) on 5 June 1848. By 1860, Census records surrender at Appomattox and that was Five Forks near Dinwiddie showed that their household included sons, John, Artemus, and Courthouse, south of Petersburg. This battle proved too much Claiborne, as well as Jefferson and William’s mother Nancy, all for the dwindling Confederate Army and the Union forces living on land worth $630 with personal property valued at $404 captured about 3,200 men with 146 being from the 14th Virginia. in the Southern District of Chesterfield County. Depending upon his enlistment date, Jefferson could have been taken as a prisoner of war and subsequently sent to David’s Information about Jefferson’s wartime service surfaced quite by Island, New York at either Maryland, Pennsylvania or accident while Chesterfield Historical Society volunteer, Michael Dinwiddie, Virginia. It seems likely to me that it would have Thomas, was researching the Society’s Veterans Data Base. He been Gettysburg. Regardless, he would never see his home, his found inconsistencies in the record of James L. Condrey, which family, or Chesterfield, Virginia again. included several pages of records pertaining to Private Jefferson E. Condrey, Company D, 14th Virginia Infantry. It’s probable

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TWO BROTHERS - REUNITED Chesterfield Historical Society Launches “Tavern There is a document dated 20 July 1865 where the surgeon in Talk” Fundraiser at Howlett’s Tavern on charge of the De Camp General Hospital turned over Jefferson’s th personal effects to his brother. By happenstance, Mr. Thomas July 26 Featuring Governor George Allen was able to link this document to me by way of mention of my great-great-grandfather in a previous article submitted to The The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia will launch Messenger. His research and reflections on this moment in ―Tavern Talk,‖ its new fundraising program, at Howlett’s history had a profound effect on me and I could not improve on Restaurant & Tavern in Chester on Monday, July 26, featuring his comments: former Virginia Governor George Allen who will do a book “It is amazing to me that William would travel from signing and a question and answer forum. Chesterfield County to New York City on behalf of his brother, Jefferson. There must have been a bonding and love between the Presented on the last Monday of the month, ―Tavern Talk‖ will two men and this speaks highly of the family relationship. I feel offer patrons at Howlett’s Tavern an opportunity to meet and William felt much anguish to learn of Jefferson’s death. I have submit questions to influential local, state and national reviewed the service records of many thousand Confederate soldiers personalities. The event will be presented from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in and have never found another instance comparable to William’s the main dining area at Howlett’s, located at 3530 Festival Park trip. I presume he had received a letter from Jefferson, which Plaza, Chester, VA 23831. Reservations are required; please call prompted him to make the sojourn. It doesn’t seem likely William (804)930-1034. A percentage of that day’s food sales will knew of Jefferson’s death prior to arrival at the POW camp.” benefit the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia.

th William returned to Chesterfield after learning of Jefferson’s The launch of ―Tavern Talk‖ on July 26 includes a book signing death, the only souvenirs of his trip being the clothes and boots by Governor George Allen from 5:00-6:00 p.m. at Howlett’s that Jefferson was wearing when he died. He and his family where he will autograph his recently published political satire continued to live in the house his father had built and work the entitled, “What Washington Can Learn from the World of land from which they made a living. This might have been quite Sports.” Copies of the book can be pre-purchased at the a challenge as the land suffered as much from the War as did the Historical Society Gift Shop in Magnolia Grange on Iron Bridge people. But stay and work and pay Reconstruction taxes, they Road in Chesterfield or at Howlett’s during the book signing. did. By 1870, all the children except the two oldest daughters were still at home. That also included daughter, Columbia, her George F. Allen has served the Commonwealth of Virginia for husband, Harrison Vest and their infant son, Henry. This over twenty years, as Governor, in both bodies of the United working household could have supported the continued farming States Congress, and as a Delegate holding Thomas Jefferson’s of tobacco, peanuts, corn, wheat, rye and hay, products for which seat in the Virginia General Assembly. Sworn in as Governor in the soil in this part of the County was best suited. It was thus 1994, he brought sweeping reform that made Virginia a national possible to feed the family and perhaps sell products needed model in economic development, public safety, education during the post-war boom in Richmond. William died sometime accountability and creative government. As a self-described before the 1880 census and Sarah died circa 1884. Son, ―Common Sense Jeffersonian Conservative,‖ George Allen Alexander took over ownership of the home place in 1886 and pushed through cutting-edge reform with bipartisan support. lived there until his death in November 1908. I haven’t found a date or cause of death for William, or a confirmed burial place. Elected to the United States Senate in 2000, he was appointed Land dedicated to a ―family burying ground‖ and mentioned in chairman of the Senate High Tech Task Force in 2001. Later in the conveyance deed of 1886 has yet to be found. I am sure that his term, George Allen created the Competitive Caucus to keep this must be the final resting place for William and Sarah, as they America the ―world capital of innovation.‖ He was a member of are not listed in any surviving cemetery. It’s ironic that the the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the brother who fought and died in a faraway place has a recognized Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, and the Energy burial location and the brother who came back home and and Natural Resources Committee as well as Chairman of the continued his life with his family, does not. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on European Affairs. Jefferson’s wife, Martha stayed in Chesterfield, probably not too th far from her sister, Sarah. Her sons Claiborne and Emmett were Howlett’s Restaurant and Tavern is named for the 19 century listed as members of the household in the 1880 Census. By 1888 tavern that once stood in front of historic Magnolia Grange near Emmett, along with cousins C. W. and Irving Condrey (sons of the Chesterfield court house complex. It was purchased in 1993 William H.), among others, signed contracts to supply lumber to by Joe and Heidi Helbling who operated the original restaurant a Harold Spears of New York. The narrow gauge Bright Hope for 13 years. After a three year hiatus, they reopened Howlett’s Railroad would have been used to deliver their sawn planks to in the heart of Chester where it continues to offer great food and Bermuda Hundred for shipment north. I haven’t been able to a cozy atmosphere. Local favorites include prime rib, crab find any further documentation for Martha after this time; no cakes, fresh seafood and delectable steaks. reference in a Census that she moved in with one of her sons. She might have remarried, as the Church and cemetery attended by three of her four boys has no tombstone inscription with the name of ―Martha Clarke Condrey, wife of Jefferson E. Condrey, Chesterfield son, soldier and patriot.‖

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Donations Received for Conservation of Magnolia Second Quarter Fundraising Grange Needlework Peter Lipowicz Lynn Waymack I am pleased to thank our donors who have collectively given $7484 in the second quarter. Our official total for the year is Not all visitors tour Magnolia Grange for its outstanding nearly $16,000, so we have another $9000 to meet our goal of architecture and period antique furnishings. Many come for raising $25,000 for this year. more specific reasons, perhaps to explore an ancestral connection or in hopes of a good ghost story. For Mary Ann Locklear, her The summer is a quiet time for donations. We would sure first visit to Magnolia Grange was prompted by a passion for appreciate yours to help keep the ball rolling. historic needlework samplers. Donations of $500 or more Last fall, Mary Ann read in a local paper about a Magnolia Grace Moates, in memory of Bob Moates Grange tea talk on the needlework samplers in the house. She Altria Matching Gifts Program was thrilled to learn that the local historical society had such Knights of Columbus, Bishop Ireton Council treasures on display and immediately arranged a visit. I was fortunate to be her docent, and with our shared interest in old Donations of $100 - $499 embroidery and textiles, we had a wonderful time examining the Ann & Dallas Whipp samplers, quilts, and other hand-sewn artifacts in the collection. Betty Barnes That was the start of a particularly meaningful relationship Beverley Wilson In memory of Arline Taylor Sykes between Mary Ann and the Chesterfield Historical Society. Goldie Taylor Hazel Cole Mary Ann Locklear’s interest in historic needlework samplers Helen Hall extends beyond idle affection. She is a member of both the James M. Holland Virginia Guild of Needlewomen and Gentle Pursuits, a chapter of Jim Alberston the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. Mary Ann travels to feed her Joe & Kathleen Tudor passion and just returned from Charlotte, NC where she attended a Kathryn & Jack Britton lecture by the curator of Das Deutsche Stickmuster-Museum Celle Lou Diller (The German Sampler Museum), one of the world’s most Louise King extensive collections of embroidery patterns. She owns a business, Lynn Waymack Books & More…™, that focuses on new and out-of-print sampler Major General & Mrs. Donald Gardner and historical needlework books as well as stitching supplies for Marilyn Brandt the embroiderer. Recognized for her expertise and knowledge, Marlene Durfee Mary Ann’s business is featured at A Gathering of Embroiderers, Mary Webber an annual event held in Williamsburg, attended by needlewomen Patricia Elberfeld in memory of Connie Ashman from across the United States and Canada. Pattie & Ellis Grady Peppy Jones Following this year’s Gathering of Embroiderers, Mary Ann Phyllis Burkey presented Magnolia Grange with a very generous donation Preston Harrison representing a portion of her event proceeds, stipulating that the Richard & Stephanie Mason funds be used for the conservation of Magnolia Grange needlework. Richard Gregory Her contagious enthusiasm sparked another gift by an associate, Sue Fulghum earmarked for the same purpose. At Mary Ann’s suggestion, Susan & Lloyd Poe additional contributions have been made by area needlewomen in Willis Lease Finance Corp in memory of Arline Taylor Sykes memory of a fellow stitcher and dear friend, recently lost. Donations up to $99 Mary Ann Locklear’s generosity and advocacy have gone a long Ann Rest way to ensure that the stitchery at Magnolia Grange will remain Barbara Mait intact for the education and enjoyment of future generations. She Beverley & Ken Berry continues to campaign for Magnolia Grange by bringing other Clyde Coats needlewomen for tours, and she faithfully attends each fund DeeAnne Knaggs raising tea with her daughter and friends. We are indeed grateful Betty Matthews for this very special friend. Evelyn Gray Does anyone know the whereabouts of the missing letter “J,” Jane Kulikowski as illustrated in needlework samplers on display at Magnolia Julie Campbell Grange? These works stitched by early America’s young Lorraine Moody girls provide a fascinating glimpse at the evolution of our Pamela Wyman alphabet, and are among the many things at Magnolia Ruth Stover Grange that are particularly enjoyed by children. Solve the William Byrd Society mystery by visiting soon, and bring the young ones along. William & Kay Poindexter

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th th Diary of William Bolling of Cobbs Part II 4 My Nephews (Robertson) went home ~ 5 I Dined at th o Rachel Lipowicz Broadway ~ 6 Col Tarlton Woodson was married to Miss th The original diary is part of the collection of the Virginia Nancy Friend 9 Dined at Mont Blanco ou J’avois le plasir de th Historical Society. It is a leather bound, pocket sized diary voir o~ o~ & \ ~ (where I had the pleasure to see …) 12 Went d written in William Bolling’s own hand. Rachel transcribed all 94 to Chesterf Court to attend as a Witness in the suit of Bolling vs pages in early 2010. Part I has been published in the April issue. Roane stayed all night at Chestnut Grove & came home on the th y th The complete diary transcription will be published in the next 13 16 Went with the Fam’ to Richmond 17 went to the th o th several issues. Assembly 18 D 19 on this day Stevens Thomson Mason and Henry Tazewell Esqr were elected Senators from this State to AUGUST th r st Congress 20 Went to the Assembly Robert Brooke Esq was 1 My Father sent me to Petersburg to do some Business with st o nd o c r elected Governor of Virginia 21 D 22 D in the Evening Alexander M Rae Esq & when I got to Pocahontas Bridge found went to the Theatre to see Seignor Falconi perform (line crossed the River so high as to have overflowed the lower part of the Town out) 23d Went to hear a Sermon in the Capitol 24th Went to the it was almost to the Market & I had to ford upwards of 200 Yards th r r c Assembly 25 Came home ~ we found my Sister Murray at M sometimes up to my Horses Belly did my Business with M M Rae th th d m Robertsons & she went home on the 29 ~ 26 I went to & returned in the Afternoon ~ 2 W G Murray came here in the Chesnut Grove to see my Aunt Tazewell ~ Evng Mr Rolfe Eldridge came & after him John Bolling Junr & Lady ~ 3d Mr Christopher Branch & Lady, Field Archer & Lady DECEMBER th g th Thos Friend James Johnson & Robert Bolling came to dinner & all 7 In the even went to Chesnut Grove & stayed all night ~ 8 went home in the Evng ~ 10th Made an Afternoons Visit to Mr From C.G. to Manchester & returned to C.G. to dinner, after which th r Edwd Cox ~ 12 Went to Osbornes ~ 13th Went to Broadway from came home ~ 9 Crossed over the River to M Jno Gilliams on my g o there to Mr Jno Gilliams to Dinner, after Dinner I walked back with way to Peterb where I got a Suit of Cloaths dined at Col Davies’s th Cousin Peggy Gordon to Broad-way, (et sur le Rout nous avions (Blandford) & returned home the same way that I went ~ 14 th une Tombe dans la Fosse) & in the Evng returned Home~ (and on Went to Church (ou` Je vis o~ / ) ~+ 15 To Osbornes received r d g the way fell into a pit)22 Went in the Marsh & killed 2 Soreas ~ 23 from M Townes on my Fathers a/c L 1. 8. 3 ~ 22 To Petersb to Crossed over to Mr Gilliams & went to Petersbg dined at Mr endeavour to sell my Fathers Crop of Barley to Mr Lorain, Dined Wiseigers & returned in the Evng ~ 24th Bro Robertson & Famy at Colo Davis’s Mrs D. had a son the Evng before ~+ 23d Went to came here ~ 25th Was riding out with my Mother & Sister & we Mrs Martha Coxes Funeral who died on the 20th overtook 2 (Catawba) Indians the first Indians I ever saw ~ I was 1795 JANUARY taken this day with the Ague & Fever 8th Went to Richmd for my Father’s Business went to Colo SEPTEMBER Harvie’s & Mr Ambler’s dined & slept at Mr Robertsons ~ 9th 2 Sister R. went to Aunt Buchanan’s ~ 4th I mist my Ague. 6th Went to Doctr McCleorg’s & Mr J. Mayo’s dined & slept as above Sister R. returned here 7th she went to uncle Johns on her way ~ 10th Got home in the Night dark & rainey 16 Went to Petersbg home ~ 16th Mr Murray’s John came down from Grove Brook with Robertson dined & slept at E Banks & returned the 17th ~ informing us that my Sister M was very sick & requested us to 22d Went to Petersburg from thence to Ettrick Banks to dinner go up ~ 18th My Mother & myself went to GB got there past 4 (by Invitation) in Company with Mrs Bolling (Bollingbrooke) & OClock dined at the Great Swamp ~ 20 Rode to David Meades Miss Mary Anne, Mr & Mrs Robt Bolling Mr & Mrs Le Messurier, with Mr Murray and Miss S. Randolph there then went to Mrs Thomson & John Thomson Colo William Davies Miss Ann Meade’s Mills & return’d to GB to dinner ~ 25th Rode with the M. Gordon & Miss Anne Gordon and Miss Eliza Robertson, ~ Girls (A Gordon & A Murray) to Doctor Warrells return’d to 24th Brought E. Robertson home with me, the Creek was so high dinner ~ 22d Mr M. & myself went to D. Meades from there to Mr that the water came in ye Charriot ~ M’s Plantation from there to GB to dinner ~ 24th Went to D. FEBRUARY Meades his eldest Child (Richard) very ill ~ Our Servant came 1st Dined at Mont Blanco ~ 5th Joshua was killed in our Parlour up for us to go down to my Father who was very sick ~ 25 by a Gun’s going off accidentally he was sweepg the Room & the David Meades Child died we came down to Cobbs in Compy r r Gun fell down & in falling went off and the whole Load went in with D. Meade Jun (of Maycox) found M Robertson here & my his Face between his Nose & Eye and blew his Brains out it Father doing (erously?) ill ~ 29th Sister Robertson and Aunt Buchanan th killed him so instantaniously that he neither moved hand or Foot came to see my Father ~ 30 he began to mend nor spoke one word!!! ~ 11th Curtis came with his Vessell to OCTOBER carry our Furniture round to Richmond ~ 12th We began to pack 3d Went to Petersburg to get some necessaries ~ Aunt B. went up ~ 16th Finished packing up our Furniture & sett off the Vessell Home ~ 5th went to Osbornes 6th went to Presqu’Isle return’d to I came in my Aunt Buchanans Phaeton to meet her between dinner ~ 7th Sister R. went Home ~ 9th Went to Petersburg 10th Cobbs & Richmd when I met her she had Polly Robertson, & so To Richmond & Manchester to do some Business for my Father much Baggage that I could not return to Cobbs, but went with Breakfasted at Home & then at Mr Craig’s in Manch: did part of Archd Robertson in his Fathers Carriage to my Business with Mr C & Dined & staid all Night with my Sister Robertson for the first Time since she moved to Richmond to Richmond th r live 11 Finished my Business with M C & got home (with my 2 19th This being Thanksgiving Day appointed by the President th g th Nephews) to dinner 18 Went to Petersb ~ 25 to Osb’s went to the Capitol where there was a very numerous NOVEMBER Congregation and a Sermon by the Rev’d Mr Buchanan in the Afternoon Miss Patsy Leigh, Miss Hay Jaen Hay and the two Miss

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Minors came to Mr Robertsons, My Father & Family came to Mr Gibson ~ Nelly Saunderson R’s. Miss Leigh staid all Night ~ 21st I was recommended to the April 29} Saml S. Duval ~ Ann E. Bolling Rhetorical Society as a Member by Mr Edwin Burwell ~ 22 Went May 20} Archibald Bolling ~ Mrs Maria Byrd to Church after which came Home the first that the Family Slept ― 27} Edwd P. Archer ~ Mary J. Bolling at Home ~ 28th I was Ballotted for in the Society and admitted as Daniel Call ~ Lucy Ambler a Member having got the Vote of every Member then Present Wm Knox ~ Ann M. Gordon turn to p. 43 r MARCH On the Death of Neill Buchanan Esq ------1st Mrs Harrison had a Daughter (Edmonia) 7th Went to the Society th If native Worth – if Wit’s enliv’ning Power ~ 9 Went to Chesterfield Court on Business & returned home at Can charm the Heart, or cheer each fleeting Hour Night 11th This being the Day that my Fathers suit agt Mr Roane If the firm Judgment of the polished Mind we went to Chesd Court, the Suit was continued and we went from Where manly sense, and Rectitude are Join’d Court to Cobbs, 13th we Breakfasted at Mr McCallums & got home If mild Benevolence and active Care, to dinner found my Sister Murray & Famy here 14th Went to the T’ assist the Wretch just sinking in dispair Society ~ 15 to Church Sister R’s Family dined here. 18 Our Famy r If the domestic Virtues which attend, & my Sister M’s Dined at M R’s 19 They dined with us again ~ The tender Husband, & the faithful Friend. 21 Went to the Society ~ 22 to Church ~ See 44th Page If these can claim regard — Buchanan’s praise Marriages in the Winter of 1793 1794 Acquantances Shall stand recorded through unnumber’d Days John Le Messurier to Fanny Bolling ------Archibald Baugh ~ Sarah Worsham (The above lines were composed by Mr Parker of Petersburg) John Friend ~ Judith Cox Samuel Griffin to Elizabeth Tazewell William Maitland ~ Eliza Eppes Sept Edward Cox ~ Tabitha Randolph Sherving Benjn Harrison ~ Mrs Ann Osborne Oct Archibald Baugh ~ Worsham Lenous Bolling ~ Mary Markham ― John W Eppes ~ Maria Jefferson William Fleming ~ Anne Webb ― Walter Coles ~ Cocke Moseley ~ Basset Dangerfield 1798 George Cox ~ Mary Friend February 24th WM Bolling to Mary Randolph John Markham ~ Lucy Fleming turn over Aug: John Bradley ~ Mary Archer Edward Bolling to Dolly Payne ― Thos Bass ~ Puvey (Purcy?) Bradley Field Archer ~ Martha Bolling Sept 1st Joseph Friend ~ Amelia Sherving Dr Andrew Leiper ~ Fanny Trent July Pryor ~ Tyler Nov 6, 1794} Tarlton Woodson ~ Ann Friend t ------John H. Norfleet ~ Evelina Fermicola Dec 18, 1794} Rob Atkinson ~ Mary Mayo Oct 6th John Proper ~ Mary Poole 1795 (Omitted) [16th Our Family, Mr R’s & Mr M’s Dined at Mr Jan 22} Donald McKenzie ~ Sally Harrison Harrisons] 23 Dined & I spent the Evng at Mr R’s in the Evng we May George Fisher ~ Nancy Ambler had Miss Sukey Harrison, Miss A. Gordon, the two Miss Minors, Jun 5th Bathurst Claiborne ~ Betsey A. Bott who died that day week after Mr Clay & Mr Archer ~ 26 Went a few Miles out to Manchester she was mar’d with Sister M. who was on her way home - spent the Evng at Mr Jun 13 Henry Coleman ~ Ann Gordon Harrisons ~ 27 Hailed Rained & Snowed 28th Hailed – Went to July Ryland Randolph ~ Eliza Frazier {they ran off to Carolina to get married the Society 29 Dined at Colo Bernard Markham’s where I saw for July Robt Turnbull ~ Mrs Minor the first time Lenous Bolling’s Wife ~ 30 in the Evening Mrs May Thos E. Randolph ~ Jane Randolph John Mayo, Mrs Copeland, Mrs Smith, Mrs Fanning, Miss Nancy Sep 26} Howell Lewis ~ Nelly Pollard Tazewell, & the two Miss Smiths came here ~ Sep 26} Charles Spencer ~ Elizabeth Carter Oct 17} Benjamin Talliaferro ~ Sophia Ann Tazewell Oct 29} John Spotswood Jr ~ Mary Goode Lord Chesterfield and the French and Indian War Oct 29} Francis Goode ~ Martha Hughes Jerry Rudd Dec 19} Efford Bentley ~ Elizabeth Gay The last place I thought I would encounter Lord Chesterfield, Dec 26} Robert Maitland ~ Susannah B. Harrison Philip Dormer Stanhope, would be in Upper New York State. I 1796 was on a three day trip studying Rogers Rangers involvement in Mar 17} Nathaniel Sheppard ~ Nancy Brown the French and Indian War. One of the books we were m Mar or Apr} W Whitlock ~ Emily Harvie encouraged to read was The French and Indian war by Walter R. Mar 17} Jerry Strother ~ Martha Payne Borneman. Here the good Earl appears as a mediator. m April} W Archer ~ Unity Claiborne Jones Jun 18} James Lyle ~ Sally Goode -- John Prior ~ Nancy Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694 — 1773) was an able politician, Whiting being named ambassador to The Hague in 1728. However his r Dec Henry Banks ~ -- Rud strained relationship with George II, his opposition to Sir Robert a ― Charles Johnston ~ Eliz McCarr Walpole and his marriage to Melusine de Schulenberg, believed m ― W Randolph ~ Ann Andrews to be the illegitimate daughter of George I, caused him to fall 1797 from favor in the court. Being a skilled negotiator, he was th m a Jan 5 } W Berkley ~ Eliz Randolph returned to The Hague in 1745 and secured the cooperation of

The Messenger #94 July 2010 8 the Dutch in the War of Austrian Secession. Due to his success the general as he feels Ambercromby will be too sedentary. he was named Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland and Secretary of State Stanhope would perhaps be vindicated as Ambercromby would of the Northern Department. In protest of the government’s be defeated by the French at Fort Carillon (later Fort foreign policy he resigned all of his official posts in 1748. He did Ticonderoga). Stanhope foresees the defeat of the French if skill continue to speak on his stands in the House of Lords until 1755. and spirit are exerted properly. He has serious doubts. He does have confidence in the subordinate commanders, Jeffery Stanhope had a son by Mme. DuBouchet while at The Hague, Amherst, Lord George Howe and James Wolfe. Amherst will The boy was raised in foreign courts and Stanhope’s letters to the later succeed Ambercromby as commander and Howe and Wolfe boy were always addressed to Dear friend. While the formal will be killed. The expedition is a success in the colonies under declaration of war between England and France was not until 17 the leadership of Amherst with a three pronged attack on French May 1756, we find letters written in 1752 asking his son to strong points. become acquainted with military officers and to obtain information about various European armies. In a letter dated 25 The success would have far reaching effects as the colonies February 1754 he is wary of standing armies but considers them became divided over territories gained and each colony’s a ―necessary evil.‖ It must be remembered that actions in the participation. In an effort to pay for the war, England began to colonies had been going on for a year before the formal tax heavily, thus reuniting the colonies. The Earl was not pleased declaration. Shortly after the first shots were fired in the colonies with the 1763 Treaty of Paris. He stated that the acquisition of Stanhope was highly critical of Lord Loudon (John Campbell) Canada had been far too costly. The actual war would last for for not being more aggressive as the British had twelve thousand another year, becoming known as The Seven Years War in troops to the French seven thousand. Europe.

In 1757 Lord Chesterfield came out of his retirement to help Lord Chesterfield died in 1771 but lived to see the beginnings of forge an alliance between William Pitt and Lord Newcastle to what some English text books call the American War. form a coalition government. He did not like Pitt but due to ―the wretched state of health‖ of the government he felt he should set BIBLIOGRAPHY aside his dislike to help. At this point the war was going badly Cheyney, Edward F. A Short History of England, Boston, 1904 for the British. In a letter dated 8 February 1758 he states that the French, Amy, Ranger’s House. Blackheath, London ,1992 American Expedition will be leaving soon headed by Major Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, New York, 1857 General James Ambercromby. Stanhope is not complementary of Marston, Daniel, The French-Indian War, New York, 2002

World War II Veterans of Chesterfield County Peter Lipowicz/Mike Thomas/George Cranford/Jean von Schilling

These 1063 men and women of Chesterfield County all served in World War II and their names are on our banner in the museum.

Vincent G. Aaron/Percy M. Adkins/Gordon Charles Alling/Robert C. Alltop/John Albert Alspaugh/Andrew Arthur Amabile/Ben W. Anderson/Marshall Willie Anderson/Maurice William Anderson/William A. Anderson/Eugene A. Andrews/George H. Andrews/Sidney P. Andrews/Cecil Clyde Appelman/Chester L. Appelman/J. B. Appleman/John Limond Archer Sr./Osborne B. Archer/Richard K. Archer/Thomas Herbert Archer/William L. Archer Jr./Robert H. Armour/Roy L. Arnold/Dean Michael Atkinson/Erdman G. Auman/Randolph Elridge Austin/Raymond Austin/Watts Austin/Lewis F. Ayscue/Orel Branch Babcock/A. Bagby/Talbert Lee Baggett/Earving Bailey/Adelbert Wheeler Baker/Alan Maurice Baldwin/Johnny Ballard/C. Baltz/William Cameron Bannister Jr./Carlton E. Baptist/Benjamin Irvin Barber Jr./Cridlin James Barden Sr./Lloyd Barham/Robert Stenson Barnes/Joseph C. Barron Jr./Charles William Barthlow/L. C. Bartlam/Garrett Manville Bartle/Joe Thomas Bass/Curry Baugh/Howard Baugh/Louis A. Baugh/Gail Franklin Baughman/Theodore Baylor/Robert Jesse Beasley/Melvin Carlos Beaumont/Walter Beavans/Cecil Floyd Belcher/Grayson L. Belcher/Kenneth A. Belcher Sr./Vernie Belcher/Oscar Lanford Bell/William Everette Bell/Hunter H. Bellamy Jr./Ollie J. Belvin/George L. Benner/Edgar L. Bennett/Harvey T. Bennett Jr./Joseph D. Berger/Paul Elwood Bergh/William Best/John Bilokon/John Junior Birdsell/James J. Bishop/Charles E. Blackburn/Roland Hester Blakenship/Edwin R. Bland/John Edward Blankenship/William Leslie Blankenship/Lawrence C. Blunt/Paul L. Bonner/John C. Booker/John Stanley Bookman/Minor Boos/Alton R. Bosher/Louis Clifford Bosher/Fredric C. Bott/Arthur Alfred Boucher/Clyde Bowman Jr./Frederick Vance Bowman/Jasper Bowman/Robert Bowman/Stoney J. Bradbury/Clarence Bradley/Lancelot L. Bradner Jr./Lawrence A. Bragg/Allie R. Branch/Henry N. Branch/Joseph Herman Branch/Joseph L. Branch/Wallace A. Branch/James Wilde Bratt/Edward B. Breckenmaker/James Hugh Bridgewater/Aaron J. Briggs/Thomas Garland Briggs/Marion James Brittingham/Wilson Lee Broadwell/John Brockwell/Raymond L. Brodie/Bernard J. Brogley/George Young Brokaw/Earl Brooks/Lawrence Brooks/Lewis Robert Brooks/Stanley Brooks/William Earl Brooks/Donald S. Brown/Isaiah E. Brown/J. Paul Brown/James H. Brown/Lee E. Brown Sr./Lester W. Brown/Paul Edward Brown/Randolph Brown/Rubin Levi Brown/Walter H. Brown Sr./Willie R. Brown/Sydney Alfred Bryand/Bruce A. W. Bryant/Robert Sylvester Bryant/Joseph F. Bucka/William G. Burd/Douglas F. Burford/Floyd Burford/Robert DeLester Lloyd Burnett/Russell C. Burroughs/Herbert C. Burton/Walter Russell Burton/Thomas J. Bury Jr./Elmer Butler/John Butler/Percy Coleman Butler/William Samuel Butler Jr./Richard Earl Bywaters/Byrum Cade/Henry Carrington Calder/Leslie Garland Calder/Joe Caldwell Sr./Robert Kenneth Campbell Sr./Howard Clay Canada Jr./Gwen Cannady/James Cannady/John Cannady/Lou Caraker/Lester Coleman Carnohan/James Royal Carson/George E. Carter/William H. Caruthers Jr./Jack K. Carver/James Lewis Cashion/Willard W. Cashion/Hershell L. Cassell/William Neal Casstevens/Benjamin Earl Cathers/Melvin A. Cato/David A. Catogni Jr./Paul Green Caudill/James Edward Cavanagh/Henry F. Cerquone/Arthur D. Chambliss/James W. Chapman/Robert Gordon Charles/Robert E. Chase/Charles E. Cheatham/Henry M. Cheatham/Lawrence T. Cheatham Jr./Wallace Clyde Cheatham Jr./Joseph M. Cizler/Elbert N. Clark/O. Clark/Charles L. Clarke/Gordon E. Clarke/Walter Baylor Clarke/Linwood Clayton/Henry Uriah Coalter Jr./Cossie E. Cochran/John Valentine Cogbill Jr./Richard Beverly Cogbill/William Tilghman Cogbill/Garland Preston Coghill/E. Colbert/George Edward Cole/Harold M. Cole/Warren C. Cole/Charles H. Coleman/James Coleman Sr./Walter Emerson Coleman/Walter Coleman/Edward Grayson Collier/T. R. Collier/Jimmie L. Cone/Angelo C. Conzalino/Janet Gray Cook/Thomas F. Cook/Edward R. Cooley/Robert J. Cooper/Aileen Maxey Coppridge/Edward W. Coppridge Jr./Edward W. Coppridge/Frank W. Corley/John Joseph Cortopassi/Julian Cosby/Richard B. Costley/James A. Coval/Carter H. Cowan/Robert Cox Jr. /Thomas Cox/William Crafton/J. Crawley/James Craze/Larry D. Cripe/Carlton B. Critcher/Fred A. Crowder/J. P. Crowder/R. Crowder/James Willard Crump/Thomas Crumpler/James Howard Crutchfield/L. Crutchfield/Joseph L. Cusimano/John Wesley Dallmeyer/Walter Reynolds Dalton/James William Dance Jr./Robert Selwood Dance/Elvin F. Dancy/John Everett Danford/Addieth E. Daniels/B. W. Davis/Bernard L.

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Davis/Gilbert Tucker Davis/Irvin H. Davis Sr./James Marshall Davis/Robert Odell Davis Sr./Warren C. Davis/Frank McCellan Dawson Sr./Alvis E. Day/Henry P. Day/Roy Lee Day Jr./Stanhope C. Deaner/Dionicio Galang DelCarmen/Grant W. Deming/Lawrence Dewell/John F. Dick Jr./John C. Didlake/Graham T. Dilday Sr./Horace Linwood Dilday/Warren F. Dill/John H. Dodd/Daniel Dotson/Russell Hunter Douglas Sr./Lawrence Richard Dows/Charles Thomas Draper/James L. Draper/James Maurice Draper Sr./Meredith H. Draper/Walter Duncan Jr./Victor Laird Dunn/William Lawrence Dunn Jr./Charles Truman Durrett/George E. Dyer/H. C. Dyer/Herbert Gordon Dyer/Stanley E. Dyer/John Dyson/H. Eagles/Elvin R. Eanes/Joan E. Eanes/Thomas D. Eason Jr./Peyton Brown Eastwood/E. Eckart/Wilford Kenneth Edmonds/Leon Edwards/Marvin Lee Edwards/James Allison Eggleston/James V. Eggleston/Joseph Elko/Cannie Lee Ellis/Ernest Saunders Ellis/Fred Ellis/Charles Dogan Ellison/Olvie D. Emberton/Robert H. Emmons/John A. Epps/William Henry Epps Jr./William Hubert Erps/Bolton Joshua Eudailey/James Archer Evans Jr./Merion Evans/Allen Wesley Ewing Jr./Benjamin Faison/Thomas Love Faris/John Nelson Farish/D. Farmer/Haskins T. Farrar/James Carlisle Ferguson/John Spears Ferguson/Martin F. Finnerty/Dewey Raymond Firesheets/Burrell D. Fisher Sr./Irby Hunter Fisher/James Robert Fitch/Elmer William Flaig/Bruce Eugene Fleming/George Arthur Fleming/Lowell Warren Fletcher/William Thomas Flippin/Charles Edward Floyd/William Robert Floyd/Fred Claude Forberg/Clinton S. Ford Sr./F. E. Forsyth/A. J. Fortenberry/William V. Fortune/John Charles Frank/John A. Fraser/Martin John Fraunberger/Dean Russell Frazeur/Eugene V. Freund/Joseph E. Friend/James Howard Fry Sr./Herbert Samuel Fulmer Jr./William F. Fulton/Edwin Gadberry/Joseph Anthony Gagliano/Michael John Gallagher/Joseph C. Garone/Raymond Garrett/Ernest P. Gates/Ordway Benjamin Gates Jr./William H. Gaul/John Henry Gauntlett/H. 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Early African-American Churches in Chesterfield Chesterfield County. As the oldest African American Church in County the county, it has given birth to six other churches. They are: Bernard R. Anderson Mt. Nebo, Mt. Calvary, Bethlehem, Spring Creek, Mt. Sinai, and This article is derived from the recent exhibit at the Chesterfield Friendship Memorial Baptist Churches. In the early 1900s, a one County Museum. The African-American History Committee room school for African-Americans stood on the far corner of the displayed brief histories of 17 churches founded between 1846 Church yard. and the early 1900's. These are the initial results of the committee's ongoing project to collect and archive the detailed FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH BERMUDA HUNDRED histories of Chesterfield County's African-American Churches. 4603 Bermuda Hundred Road, Chester VA 23836 These congregations have evolved through several phases. Founded 1850 Initially, groups of believers met in "bush arbors" or ―brush The forerunner of this Church was established around the time of arbors‖ where enslaved people gathered to set aside the the founding of the English colonies in the New World. It was oppression of plantation life and worship a God of liberation and first organized as a Parrish under the leadership of Rev. freedom. Many enslaved and free blacks attended services at Alexander Whitaker, a missionary sent from England. In 1622, white meeting houses where they were sometimes the majority of an Indian massacre in the area caused the remaining settlers to the membership, but sat in balconies or the rear. Later, some move westward. Later, some of the colonists returned to formed their own congregations, but were legally overseen by Bermuda Hundred. Among those who returned were families white ministers. After the Civil War, they formed independent named Cox, Elam, Jefferson, Eppes, Procter, Battle, Harris, Churches which became centers for African-American Walthall, Johnson, and others who formed the First Baptist community life, as well as sources of hope, strength, education, Church Bermuda Hundred. At a later time, the white members and refuge. These institutions continue their vital roles today. formed the (Brief histories of the first are presented here. The remainder Enon Baptist will be in the October issue- editor.) Church and, in 1850, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MIDLOTHIAN gave the old 13800 Westfield Drive, Midlothian VA 23114 edifice to the Founded 1846 African The first and oldest African American Church in Chesterfield American County is the First Baptist Church of Midlothian. First Baptist members. was organized in 1846 by the large slave and free black This population which worked for the local coal mining companies. constituted The first Church was built on the property of the Grove Shaft the founding Mines and was originally named the First African Baptist Church of the of Coalfield. The members raised money by working extra hours second African American church in Chesterfield County. The at the mines and constructed the building themselves. As first pastor was the Rev. Miles Walker who served until his death prescribed near the end of the 19th century. From the time of Rev. Walker's by death, to 1981, there were nine other pastors. Despite periods Virginia without a regular pastor, a faithful and determined membership law, the has continued to prosper. Since the Church's founding, there has first pastor been spiritual growth and physical changes which included the was a purchase of additional property, new pews, pulpit furniture, and a white baptismal pool. The Rev. James Geter, Sr. served as pastor for a man, period of 22 years, ending in 2003. Under his tenure, the church Jordan added a fellowship hall, pastor's study, Church office, kitchen, Martin. and new restrooms. The current pastor is the Rev. Michael G. The Stith. Church continued BEULAH BAPTIST CHURCH with great prosperity until 1877, when the first building was 21209 Hull Street Road, Moseley VA 23120 destroyed by fire. Shortly thereafter, a new Church was built on Founded 1859 land purchased by the same body located about one-half mile In 1859, a small group of believers, while still in slavery but with from the Coalfield Station (Southern Railway Company), site of a desire to serve the Almighty God, met to organize the Beulah present Church. At that time, the Church was renamed the First Baptist Church under the leadership of the Rev. Wilkerson. Baptist Church of Midlothian. During worship services, hymns Initially, meetings were held in the homes of members. The were sung congregational style, led by a few members, until founders of the Church were William Booker, Ben Brown, 1919, when the first choir was organized under the direction of Gilbert Jones, Ben Ward, Thomas Jefferson, John Wilkins, David Mr. Cornelius H. Munford. In 1956, the Church began Goode, Bob Walker, Charles Holcomb, Peter Haskins, and worshiping four Sundays a month. Since 1846, twenty-eight Gilbert Dudley. Throughout its history, Beulah has been led by a pastors have served at First Baptist of Midlothian. The current great succession of pastors. Each has provided spiritual direction pastor is the Rev. Pernell J. Johnson who was installed in May and helped develop the various ministries of the Church. With 2007. First Baptist of Midlothian has had an enormous impact on the installation of Pastor William Mayo in July 1967, Beulah

The Messenger #94 July 2010 11 began a rebuilding program to repair the damage that resulted pastorate of Rev. Dr. T. E. White (1969 to 1995). Under the from an auto accident which demolished the prior structure. current pastor, Rev. Dr. Norwood G. Carson (installed 1996), Land on the east side of Route 360 (Hull Street Road) was Tabernacle continues to expand its outreach and evangelistic donated by the Walker family and a new edifice was erected. ministries in service to Chesterfield County and the greater Within 3 years, the mortgage on the new building was burned. Richmond area. Throughout the years, Beulah Baptist has expanded its physical facilities and continued its missionary efforts through its FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CENTRALIA participation in local and national organizations such as the 2920 Kingsdale Road, Richmond VA Tuckahoe Baptist Association and the Lott Cary Foreign Mission Founded 1867 Board. In 1867, a small group of black members from Salem Baptist Beulah also Church (white) was organized as Salem African Baptist Church. serves as the Meetings were initially held in a bush arbor. After the Chalkey host Church family (white) gave an acre of land, the members built the first for the structure - a Ministers and small framed Diaconate building which Leadership was renamed Conference of First Baptist Amelia, Church Chesterfield, Centralia. Rev. and Powhatan Lewis Branch Counties. The was the first current pastor is the Rev. Larry Thompson. In 2009, Beulah pastor. In 1926, Baptist celebrated 150 years of service to the Skinquarter a second building community. was constructed on the same site. Rev. W. B. Ball's administration (1934-1949) TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH played an important part in the Church's advancement. This 11521 Coalboro Road, Chesterfield VA 23838 included improvements in the physical features of the Church Founded 1862 and enhancement in the religious training of the members. In 1862, the second year of the Civil War, a Baptist congregation Between 1867 and 1949, the Church prospered under the was organized by the black families in the Winterpock area. The leadership of 11 pastors. In 1950, Dr. Samuel Moss Carter first meetings were led by the white pastor of the Second Baptist became the 12th pastor. During his 40 year tenure, the Church Church of acquired property to be used as the site of a new sanctuary. In Chesterfield. 1963, First Baptist Centralia moved to its current edifice at 2920 The first black Kingsdale Road, two miles northeast of the historic site. In pastor, Rev. addition, a fellowship hall and family life center were erected. In Jordan Smith, March 1991, Dr. Wilson E. B. Shannon became the 13th pastor. was appointed in With his guidance the Church has continued to grow and prepare 1865. For the for service in the new century. In 1996, he led the Church to first eleven rebuild the Historic First Baptist Church which was destroyed by years, the Church fire. This was completed in less than 9 months and rededicated met in a bush in June 1996. The structure is now considered an auxiliary arbor and a building and museum and is available for weddings, reunions and lumber building near the train station at Clover Hill (now other special occasions. Currently, the Church is moving Winterpock). In 1873, under the spiritual leadership of Rev. towards completion of a major expansion of the family life center Branch, the first Church was built near the site of the present where future generations can worship, learn and build fellowship. Church. At this time, the Church was named the "Tabernacle Baptist Church." During Rev. Branch's 22 year pastorate, the UNION GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH first Sunday School was organized. Around 1900, under the 19111 Church Road, Petersburg VA 23838 Rev. B. T. Fletcher, a new building was constructed near the Founded 1869 original structure. In 1918, Rev. A. D. Smith became pastor and In 1869, four years after the Civil War and the end of slavery, a served 44 years until retirement in 1962. During his tenure the few Christian believers united themselves in a small, but strong first usher board and choir were organized, the first piano was band and assembled in the home of Brother Dodson Webster. As purchased, and the building was significantly renovated, to the number of worshippers increased, a larger area was required include a choir loft, choir room and pastor's study. Over the and meetings were held in a bush arbor. Shortly thereafter, a few years Tabernacle was widely known for its festive Homecoming members who had been affiliated with Gillfield Baptist, First and Revival services beginning the fourth Sunday in August with Baptist, and Third Baptist Churches in Petersburg joined this baptisms on the fourth Sunday in September at a neighborhood community. These consecrated souls, who continued to sing pond on Black Road. In the 1960s, the Church began weekly praises unto God in the bush arbor, grew spiritually and worship services. In 1976, the present brick sanctuary, education numerically and constructed the first Church building. In wing, and indoor baptismal pool were completed under the addition to Brother Dodson Webster, the founders of Union

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Grove Baptist Church included Sisters Kandis Goode Jones and Church attendance were greatly increased and a Vision 2000 Elvira Stewart and Brother Ned Green. Descendants of Sister Project Committee was organized to provide recommendations to Jones are still expand or rebuild the sanctuary. A ground breaking service was active members held in July 2001 and on Sunday August 4, 2002, Vision 2000 of the Church. was realized with the ribbon-cutting for the new Gravel Hill In the early Baptist Church. The new structure seats 350 people, has 1900s, the first modernized kitchen and bathroom facilities, additional meeting building known rooms and classrooms, and handicapped accessibility. as Union Grove was replaced MOUNT SINAI BAPTIST CHURCH with the current 200 Old Hundred Road, Midlothian VA 23114 structure. This Founded 1874 was done under Before the Civil War, African Americans in the Hallsborough the leadership of the Rev. J. J. Woodson. The Church continued community worshipped with the white members at the Mt. to grow in the first half of the twentieth century. During the Hermon and Bethel Baptist Churches. Although custom dictated pastorates of the Revs. Moses A. Knott, Jr., (1957-1961) and that black worshippers sat in a separate section, they were a George P. Polk, Jr. (1961-1966), plans for renovation were made significant part of the memberships. For example, in 1853, Mt. and the new annex was dedicated in July 1963. Additions Hermon's membership included 34 African Americans. In 1861, included an educational unit, fellowship hall, indoor baptistry, Bethel had 152 members - 70 whites and 82 African Americans. and a choir loft with seating to the left and right of the pulpit. In February 1866, Bethel's elders asked their African American The pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Harold E. Braxton began in 1969 members whether they wanted to remain with the congregation and continued for 28 years. Projects completed during his tenure or join Midlothian African (now First Baptist of Midlothian). included brick veneering the Church building, and installation of The 42 remaining members were allowed separate use of the central air conditioning. Upon his retirement in 1997, Rev. meeting house on 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoons. With increased Braxton became Union Grove's first Pastor Emeritus. The membership and a desire for their own Church, worshippers met current pastor, the Rev. Joe Reeves, was elected in August 2009. in bush arbors at various locations. In 1874, William and Rebecca Spears sold one acre of land to "a colored Baptist GRAVEL HILL BAPTIST CHURCH Church" to be 2600 Gravel Hill Road, Richmond, VA 23225 named "Mount Founded 1873 Sinai" for the Prior to the formation of the Gravel Hill Baptist Church, sum of $17.50. members of Chesterfield's Granite community traveled more than The first seven miles to attend the First Baptist Church of South building was Richmond. Because of the hardships created by traveling such a erected that long distance, in 1872, a small worship group was formed in the year. In 1878, community. Initially they met from house to house, but meetings the property were moved to a bush arbor as the membership grew. In 1873, a was officially request was made to First Baptist for the formal organization of a deeded to the new Church. first trustees: An Joshua Bell, Lawson Patterson, and Richard Vaughan. The application current building was completed in 1884 near the site of the was filed original structure. Before construction of the nearby Dry Bridge and signed School, Mt. Sinai served as the classroom for local African- by ten American children. The building has been renovated several members times, most recently with a major addition in 2004. Among 10 and on the pastors, the longest serving was the Rev. George W. Manning 2nd Sunday whose 61-year tenure ended in 1994. The Church continues to in June prosper and provide a beacon light for the community. The 1873, the current pastor is the Rev. Wayne L. Moody (installed in 2007). Gravel Hill Pastor Moody's theme of "One Body United in Christ" is both a Baptist Church was organized. (Note: This part of Chesterfield guidepost for the future and an echo from the bush arbors of the County was annexed to the City of Richmond in the 1970s.) past. The physical structure of the Church has evolved from a log cabin to a weatherboard structure to today’s brick facility. Gravel Hill has grown from baptisms in the James River/Granite Creek to an outdoor baptismal pool on the Church grounds, to an indoor baptistry. Since 1873, Gravel Hill has had 19 pastors, beginning with Rev. Jimmie Smith to the current pastor, the Rev. Louis Jones (installed 1995). The longest serving pastor was the second, Rev. W. W. Young, who served 23 years. Under the leadership of Rev. Jones, new membership, Bible study, and

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Chesterfield School Board Minutes; A Glimpse at the rate of $50. The Board also voted that January to approve into Our Past sending the Superintendant to a conference in Atlantic City that Diane Dallmeyer cost the taxpayers $75. The Works Progress Administration Franklin Roosevelt was in his third term as President, Charles presented a request through the superintendant to use one Lindbergh was testifying to Congress in support of a US classroom in ―the Matoaca School‖ for special classes in adult neutrality pact with Hitler and Winston Churchill was appealing education. Classes were to be held afternoon and evening. to the US populace to send arms to Britain. Cheerios breakfast ―Since it was learned that the WPA did have another place they cereal was introduced and Citizen Kane premiered in New York could use, and due to the fact that it would be necessary for this City. Carving on Mount Rushmore was completed and Pearl Board to keep the building warm at nights and furnish janitorial Harbor was bombed. The year was 1941. service, it was ordered.....that the request be denied,‖ the minutes record. The January meeting also dealt with a bus driver who had At regular intervals that year, as now, the Chesterfield County failed the drivers' test twice and was ordered to either ―furnish a School Board met to discuss matters of importance to the citizens competent driver for his bus or relinquish his contract with the and taxpayers of the county. Board members, men with names School Board.‖ we have come to know, like Cogbill, Chalkley and Wells, met to conduct Board business at the 1917 Courthouse on Ironbridge The Superintendant was asked by the Board to draw up a salary Road. Minutes from prior meetings were reviewed and new schedule using as a basis for teachers' salaries a minimum of business was opened for discussion and consideration. Review $650 per session and a maximum of $1200, except for ―special‖ of the minutes of the School Board, available on microfilm in the teachers (undefined) and Principals. local history room of Central Library, gives us a peek into the not-so-distant past as well as introducing us to people and places A special meeting was held on January 29, 1941 to make a that are no longer part of our county. decision for the new high school building at Chester. A contract was awarded to the English Construction Company of Altavista A list of the schools’ names shows some that we all recognize for $99,700. This bid was lowered from the original $120,850 by today as well as some that are found only in old-timers' exclusions or cost-cutting measures such as leaving the stage in memories and in the annals of documents such as these: Chester, the music room unfinished, omitting the PA system, and using Grange Hall, Manchester, Matoaca, Summer Hill, Hickory Hill, cinderblock instead of glazed finish on the side walls of the gym. Beulah, Centralia, Good Hope, Gravel Hill, Kingsland, Substituting A grade yellow pine for birch saved $723 on the Midlothian, Mount Nebo, Ochre, Piney Branch, Pleasant View, inside trim and using plaster instead of acoustical tile in the Port Walthall, Midlothian High, Bellemeade, Bon Air, Broad corridors trimmed the budget by $600. By the request of the Rock, Colonial Heights, Ettrick, Enon, Union Branch, Union Judge of the Circuit Court, the Board voted to begin preparing Grove, Warwick Road and Winterpock. The county school for a bond issue referendum to raise $200,000 for the payroll in 1941 was $24,159.85. Additional expense was construction of Chester and Manchester High Schools. incurred when substitute teachers had to be called in and the pay varied between assignments. Mrs. Michael Cifelli substituted 2 Also in January, a delegate of representative patrons of Good days at Chester and was paid $7.00, while Mrs. Lucille Transou Hope, Pleasant View, Winterpock and Beulah schools presented made $16.00 for four days. A day at Ettrick brought Mrs. a petition asking that the Board consider the transportation of students from their respective communities who had completed Charles Carater $3.50 and Mrs. R. L. Johnson was on duty for th four days at Hickory Hill for only $8.50. 7 grade to Hickory Hill High School and that a bus be provided for this purpose in the annual budget a bus. The Board voted to In each Board meeting, expenses and receipts were enumerated. have a committee appointed to consider this proposal and report Fred Thompson reimbursed the county in April of 1941 for $3.55 back at a following meeting. worth of ―telephone tolls‖ and the Commonwealth of Virginia issued a gas tax refund of $5.60. Typically the expense report In March of 1941, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. was much longer than the income report and reveals some prices C. was opened and the Grand Coulee Dam began generating we wish we could see today. The gas, oil and supplies for Mr. electricity. In Chesterfield, Oliver W. Hill, attorney representing Cummin's bus amounted to $22.81 that April. Telephone service the Chesterfield County Branch of the NAACP and a delegation for Midlothian High was $5.30. Water service at Bellemeade of Negro citizens of the county, appeared before the Board School was only $2.00 and 14 tons of slack coal for Chester was urging an answer to the petition they had presented the previous a whopping $70.00. Warwick Road School needed wood costing December in which citizens and taxpayers of Chesterfield and $13.50 for three cords and Mr. H. Elmer Myers supplied 10 cords the county branch of the NAACP requested that the Board take for Centralia and Piney Branch. Midlothian, Manchester, action to equalize the Negro teachers' salaries with the white Hickory Hill and Gravel Hill were supplied with 20 tons of coal teachers' salaries. for heating, at a cost of $47.95. The Board had provided a $100 salary increase to each Negro Enlightening and nostalgic as these accounting notes are, the teacher in its 1941-42 school budget. ―Upon consideration human interest stories and everyday-life vignettes are even more whereof and on motion of F. G. Laine, it is resolved that it is the so. January of 1941, a month that brought the US Ambassador to policy of this Board to adopt a single salary schedule for all Japan’s report of rumors of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, in teachers, effective beginning with the school session 1942-43.‖ Chesterfield brought a request for approval of the rental of And on the topic of salaries, a special covenant inserted in classrooms to Chester Methodist Church for Sunday School use teacher contracts for all teachers for school year 1941-42 decreed

The Messenger #94 July 2010 14 that ―said teacher or party of the second part agrees that the ―this Board will not be responsible and will not take any part in amount of salary may be decreased for inefficiency or increased the educational program at the CCC (Civilian Conservation for outstanding work during the session on recommendation of Corps) camp located at Beach, VA until the present Educational the Superintendent, provided that no salary may be decreased Supervisor there is removed and a suitable director has been below the minimum of the adopted schedule.‖ placed at that Camp.‖ The induction of Principal of Beulah School J. Wilson Crump into the military service prompted the In May, Bob Hope performed his first USO show and here at School Board to send a resolution requesting his deferment citing home, Mr. Redd, the superintendant of Bethany Home, an the dearth of teachers and ―especially those qualified for orphanage on Forest Hill Ave. requested that the high school principalships.‖ pupils living there be sent to Manchester High School instead of Midlothian and the elementary students to go to Broad Rock Of great interest to county residents was the resolution presented instead of Bon Air. This request was denied. that fall concerning the completion of the changeover from Chester High to a school with a new and historically important In July, Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak ended and name. ―Whereas Sir Thomas Dale, Lt Governor of Virginia, Chesterfield’s School Board minutes show instructions to under the Royal Charter was the first man to organize a definite advertise the old shop building at Chester for sale and to sell it at settlement in Chesterfield in which a few years later in 1619 the public auction to the highest bidder. In a matter eerily similar to University of Henricopolis on Henrico Island and a public school recent issues, the matter of discontinuing high school at Grange on the site of the present Coxendale Farm, were established and Hall and transporting the pupils to Manchester was presented at Whereas this effort toward establishing a school system in the the July 29th meeting. This decision on the part of the school new world was the first made by English speaking people, and board was challenged and School Board member H. L. Gill whereas it appears desirable to give a historic name to the new began the August 6 meeting with a request that the Board rescind high school at Chester, Now, therefore, be it resolved that the the proposal. ―He further stated that the people in that name of the present Chester High School be changed to Thomas community were exceedingly anxious to have the school reopen Dale High School of Chesterfield County, Virginia.‖ next session,‖ the minutes read. His request was fully discussed by the Board, after which Mr. Gill presented the following: ―Be As our nation inexorably moved toward war, the end of the year it resolved that the Board rescind its former motion taken at an brought new salary considerations, with a pay schedule that adjourned meeting held at the Courthouse on July 29 by which ―shall apply to teachers in Chesterfield County for the session the high school department at Grange Hall school was ordered 1942-3 and for subsequent sessions until this schedule is changed closed as of next session, and that the school be reopened for or revised by the School Board.‖ The scale ran from $700 to next session and that a principal and the necessary teachers be $1300, with consideration based upon preparation, experience, employed to operate the school as before. The motion did not efficiency, intellectual ability, personality, background, the receive a second. Fellow Board member Mr. F. G. Laine moved teaching duties assigned and quality of service rendered, general that the former action of the school board with reference to the fitness or teacher-like qualities, and supply and demand. It was closing of the high school department at Grange Hall be noted that pay above the maximum could be allowed by the sustained and that the high school department at that school be School Board on recommendation of the Superintendent due to discontinued. This motion passed. graduate work, extra service on the curriculum or research work or assignment of other additional duties. The minutes go on to The school closure issue continues at the next meeting of August read, ―The salary of any teacher may be reduced or increased 21, where it appears a ―committee representing a large delegation during the school session upon recommendation of the of citizens from Clover Hill District conferred with the Board, Superintendant and approval of the School Board when it again requesting it to reconsider its action of Tuesday, July 29, at appears that the classification of the teachers should be changed which time it was ordered that the high school department of due to inefficiency or to outstanding work.‖ Grange Hall be discontinued and the pupils transported to Manchester. Various members of the delegation, Mr. H. L. Nineteen forty-two would bring challenges anew to Americans Chalkley, Member of the Board of Supervisors from Clover Hill and to Chesterfield residents. Annexation issues began to creep district, Mr. J. G. Hening, member of the Board of Supervisors into the minutes of the January 1942 School Board meetings, from Dale, and Mr. H. L. Gill, Trustee from Clover Hill District, with the implications for the schools that would be affected, spoke in favor of continuing the school. Mr. Gill once again including Richmond taking on shares of debts and management moved to rescind the former Board action. This time, the motion of schools. The division Superintendant was authorized to was passed with five ayes and one nay. purchase a car to be used exclusively for school purposes, said car to be kept at the Courthouse, and to be ―one of three makes, Following this climactic issue, a following entry concerns the Ford, Plymouth or Chevrolet.‖ Issues on the domestic horizon approval of a request for the purchase of a new school bus for included the appointment of a committee to work out some type $800 ―for Levi Johnson's bus route.‖ of salary adjustment of the Superintendant's salary if and when said car was furnished. Fall School Board meetings brought discussions of changes to bus routes, bus driver salaries, special permission for students to enter kindergarten before age 6, and an intriguing statement that

The Messenger #94 July 2010 15 Non-Profit Org. The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia U.S. Postage PAID P.O. Box 40 Permit #28 Chesterfield, VA 23832 Chesterfield, VA 23832

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CHS Events July 12th-16th, 9-1pm CHSV ―Diggin’ in History‖ Kids Archeology Camp (Castlewood), ages 8-12, $95/student, Pre-paid Reservations Required, call (804)796-7121. 17th, Sat, 11am Celebrate Chesterfield Lecture: Larry Holt, ―The Appomattox River & Canal‖ (Magnolia Grange) Free 21st, Wed, 2pm CHSV ―Independence Day‖ Tea (Magnolia Grange), $25/person, Pre-paid Reservations Required: 25th, Sun, 2pm CHSV Members Quarterly Meeting & Ice Cream Social (“The Manse” at Ettrick Methodist Church) Free 26th, Mon, 6:30 ―Tavern Talk with Gov. George Allen‖ (Howlett’s Tavern, Chester) Dinner Reservations required (804)930-1034, to benefit CHSV 27/28/29th, 9am-1pm ―Summer History Camp‖, ages 8-12 (Magnolia Grange, Castlewood & Courthouse Green) $65/student, Pre-paid reservations only (804)751-4946 August 2nd-6th, 9-1pm CHSV ―Diggin’ in History‖ Kids Archeology Camp (Castlewood) ages 8-12, $95/student, Pre-paid Reservations Required, call (804)796-7121. 14th, Sat, 11am Celebrate Chesterfield Lecture: Bettie Weaver, ―The Huguenots & Religious Liberty‖ (Magnolia Grange) 17/18/19th, 9am-1pm ―Summer History Camp‖, ages 8-12 (Magnolia Grange, Castlewood & Courthouse Green) $65/student, Pre-paid reservations only (804)751-4946 18th, Wed, 2pm CHSV ―In the Good Old Summer Time‖ Tea (Magnolia Grange). Speaker: Milton Burke (ex Miller & Rhoades) ―Sara Sue Hats.‖ $25/person Pre-paid Reservations Required: (804)796-1479 September 11th, Sat, 11am Celebrate Chesterfield Lecture: ―Archives of Chesterfield County at the Library of Virginia‖ by Minor Weisiger (Magnolia Grange) $5.00 (804)796-1479 18-19th, Sat-Sun Henricus ―Publick Days‖ CHSV Information Table (Henricus Historical Park) 22nd, Wed, 2pm CHSV ―Labor Day‖ Tea (Magnolia Grange) $25/person, Pre-paid Reservations Required: (804)796-1479

October 2nd, Sat, 11am-4pm ―Eppington Heritage Day‖ (Eppington Plantation), CHSV Information Table Free (804)751-4946 4th, Mon, 12 noon CHSV Annual Golf Classic Fundraiser (The Highlands Country Club, Chesterfield) $85/player 16th, Sat, 11am-3pm ―Midlothian Mines Tours‖ (Midlothian Mines Park) in conjunction with ―Midlothian Village Day‖ CHSV Information Table (Midlothian Middle School) (804)751-4946

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