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Ashland is a town in Hanover County, Virginia, United States, located 16 miles (26 km) north of Richmond along Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 7,565, [5] up from 7,225 at the 2010 census. Ashland is named after the Lexington, Kentucky estate of Hanover County native and statesman Henry Clay.
Patrick Henry High School is a public high school in Ashland, Virginia in Hanover County. The name of the school, as well as the name of its literary publications, The Voice, The Spark, and The Orator, reference the history of American Founding Father Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2009.
The incorporated town of Ashland is located within Hanover County. Ashland is the second and current home of Randolph-Macon College. In 1953, Barksdale Theatre was founded at the historic Hanover Tavern. It was the nation's first dinner theater and central Virginia's first professional theatre organization. [4]
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The Ashland Historic District encompasses the historic central core of Ashland, Virginia, now a suburb of nearby Richmond. The town developed in the mid-19th century as a summer resort area, but in the late 19th and early 20th century it grew more significantly as a streetcar suburb of its larger neighbor. Its central core had its biggest ...
More than 100 motorcycles made their way as part of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and Cost of Freedom Tribute escort through downtown Ashland to the Ashland County Airport on Wednesday ...
Randolph–Macon was founded in 1830 by Methodists Hekeziah G. Leigh and John Early [6] and Staten Islander Gabriel Poillon Disosway. It was originally located in Boydton, near the North Carolina border, but as the railroad link to Boydton was destroyed during the Civil War, the college's trustees decided to relocate the school to Ashland in 1868.
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