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Salisbury was a house and plantation in northwestern Chesterfield County, Virginia in the Southside area of Metro Richmond, Virginia. It was most likely built in the early 1760s by Abraham Salle (c.1732-c.1800) , a descendant of Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution in France. [ 1 ]
Midlothian (/ m ɪ d ˈ l oʊ θ i ə n / mid-LOH-thee-ən) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region. [4]
Aetna Hill is a house in Midlothian, Virginia. It was built soon after 1791 by Thompson Blunt, who had just married Frances Morrisette, a granddaughter of Pierre Morrisette, one of the early Huguenot settlers. [1] [2] This original building consisted of "a 1 1/2 story Huguenot-style structure with a three-bay facade and twin front doors". [3]
Coal mining in the Midlothian area of Chesterfield County began in the 18th century. Around 1701, French Huguenot settlers to the area discovered coal. In a 1709 diary entry William Byrd II , the wealthy planter who had purchased 344 acres (1.4 km 2 ) of land in the area, noted that "the coaler found the coal mine very good and sufficient to ...
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Salisbury Plantation may refer to: Salisbury Plantation (Westover, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland; Salisbury Plantation (Woodville, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi; Salisbury (Chesterfield County, Virginia), a former 18th century plantation near Richmond, Virginia
A swollen Falling Creek This 1888 map of Chesterfield County shows how Falling Creek rises in the Salisbury section of northwestern Chesterfield County (near the Midlothian coal mines) and flows through Southside Richmond to the James River. Falling Creek is a tributary of the James River located near Richmond, Virginia, United States.