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English: This is a locator map showing Botetourt County in Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Botetourt County, Virginia, from 1895 state map. First proposed in the House of Burgesses in 1767, Botetourt County was created in 1770 from Augusta County. [3] The county is named for Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, who served as governor of the colony of Virginia from 1768 to 1770, when he died suddenly while in office. [4]
The first plantation established by surveyor, militia officer and burgess William Preston (1729-1783) and which used enslaved labor beginning with his purchase of 16 Africans from the ship True Blue on August 28, 1759 in Nanjemoy, Maryland for 752pounds (to avoid a 5% Virginia sales tax), Greenfield became one of Botetourt County's largest ...
Salisbury is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. [1] References
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01001571 [1] VLR No. 011-0010 ... Greyledge is a historic home and national historic district in Botetourt County, Virginia. It encompasses 13 contributing buildings ...
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By the early 1780s, he owned over a thousand acres in Botetourt County, and in 1785 he was listed as the owner of a dwelling and three other buildings. The home Lauderdale was built in 1790 by James Lauderdale Sr. [ 3 ] Lauderdale Sr. settled in the area in 1730, when the region was still in the possession of the Indians.