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Amelia Peabody (July 3, 1890 – May 31, 1984) was an American philanthropist, [1] sculptor, and breeder. She was an heir to a founder of the investment firm Kidder, Peabody & Company . Peabody studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts under Charles Grafly .
Coverly is a rural unincorporated community in northeastern Amelia County in the U.S. state of Virginia.The town is located on SR 631 (Coverly Road) off SR 604 (Chula Road) at Coverly, a farm and historic home built in the 1830s, atop a hill with the Appomattox River to the east, Flat Creek to the south, and the Norfolk Southern Railway to the northwest.
Location of Amelia County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Amelia County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amelia County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Gregory Gerami, president and CEO of Batterson Farms Corp, recently announced a $237 million donation to Florida A&M University, the largest ever for a historically Black college or university.
Amelia Wildlife Management Area is a 2,217-acre (8.97 km 2) Wildlife Management Area located in Amelia County, Virginia. Primarily upland habitat, it also preserves around 175 acres (0.71 km 2 ) of bottomland hardwoods and beaver swampland along the Appomattox River .
Peabody lived in a house built in 1750 on a 40-acre section of her property called Mill Farm. [16] On the farm, she raised horses, white-faced Herefords, and Yorkshire pigs. [12] [14] At her passing in 1984, her will bequeathed most of the land now comprising Noanet Woodlands to the Trustees. [15] Mill Farm remains in private ownership.
Laurel Hill Farm is a private park and historic home located in Ararat, Virginia.The birthplace of James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, seventy-five acres of the 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) plantation owned by the Stuart Family was saved in 1992 by the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust with assistance from the Civil War Trust, a division of the American Battlefield Trust. [3]
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