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Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia.He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and three others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been a source of debate within Carroll County for ...
The Carroll County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. It was built between 1870 and 1875, and is a two-story brick building with a gable roof. It features a two-story, pedimented portico in the Doric order. The building is topped by an octagonal cupola.
The Sidna Allen House is a historic house located near the town of Fancy Gap, in Carroll County, Virginia.The house was built in 1911 for Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen; however, he was arrested soon thereafter for complicity in the courthouse shooting of which his brother was accused, and never again lived there.
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Carroll County, like neighboring Floyd, is a historical anomaly in being a solidly Republican county in “Solid South” Virginia, due to desertions from the Confederate army during the Civil War. It was the only county in Virginia to vote for William Howard Taft during the 1912 election, and the only Democrat to carry the county in a ...
Extradited to Virginia in 2008, Prieto was convicted of these additional murders and received multiple death sentences. He was executed by lethal injection on October 1, 2015. Public Domain ...
Carroll County Courthouse (Virginia), Hillsville, Virginia This page was last edited on 24 June 2020, at 16:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Carroll 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.