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Crewe was founded in 1888 as a central location to house steam locomotive repair shops for the Norfolk & Western Railroad (now called Norfolk Southern) which has a rail yard there for east–west trains carrying Appalachian coal to Hampton Roads for export abroad, and the street pattern was laid out at that time.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nottoway 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.
In the 1860 census, 73.2% of the total population of Nottoway County were slaves, the highest percentage of any Virginia county. [ 4 ] One of the county's larger towns, Crewe , owes its existence to the railroad siding established at Robertson's Switch in the 1880s.
Millbrook is a historic home and farm complex located near Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia.The original section of the Federal-style main house was built about 1840, and expanded to its present size about 1855.
Mountain Hall is a historic home and farm complex located near Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia. The house was built about 1797, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick-and-frame, nearly square dwelling with a pyramidal roof. It has a side-hall plan and features four tall and narrow brick chimneys.
Harrisonburg was named for Thomas Harrison (1704–1785), an early settler. [20]The earliest documented English exploration of the area prior to settlement was the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, led by Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood, who reached Elkton, and whose rangers continued and in 1716 likely passed through what is now Harrisonburg.
Lee County is one of the 423 counties served by the Appalachian Regional Commission, [6] and it is identified as part of "Greater Appalachia" by Colin Woodard in his book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. [7] All of Lee County lies longitudinally west of West Virginia.
Agnew Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech is named in her honor; the first building on campus to be named for a woman, it was completed in 1940 and christened in 1949. [4] [7] She was recognized as one of the Virginia Women in History for 2000, the inaugural year of the program. [5] A historical marker in Crewe, Virginia details her ...