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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]
Rodophil had its own post office by 1835; [7] [8] the building may have been located on Route 620 across from the entrance to Ingleside, just north of Route 616. Tens of thousands of such small rural postal facilities dotted the American countryside by the late 1800s, and Rodophil continued to be noted as a "post village" or "post-station" in gazetteers at the turn of the 20th century [9] and ...
It is located near Midlothian, Virginia at the southern terminus of the Powhite Parkway and is centered on the Swift Creek Reservoir. The Census Bureau defines it as a Census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 13,730 [ 1 ] as of 2020, slightly higher than its population in 2010 of 13,173.
Genito is an unincorporated community in Powhatan County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. References. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System ...
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 ...
The Harvard–Yenching Institute (HYI) was founded in 1928 by Yenching University President John Leighton Stuart with funding provided solely from the estate of Charles Martin Hall, the inventor of a process for refining aluminum and the founder of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA).
Bethel Baptist Church is a historic church complex and cemetery located at Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a brick church with a steeply pitched gable roof in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is the third church on this site. Wings were added to the original church in 1906, 1980, and 1987.
Midlothian High School offers, Advanced Placement (AP) courses, Dual Enrollment (DE) courses from Brightpoint Community College, and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses to its students. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Program has been a specialty center at Midlothian High School since 2001. This program is one of the fourteen ...