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Cumberland State Forest is a Virginia state forest located in the piedmont of the state, in Cumberland and Buckingham counties. The 16,169-acre (65.43 km2) forest borders the Willis River. Within its confines may be found Bear Creek Lake State Park and a small family cemetery containing the grave of Charles Irving Thornton; the grave marker, with its inscription by Charles Dickens, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
USGS GNIS ID: 1465521
The Governor's School of Southside Virginia is a public magnet high school in Keysville, Virginia and Alberta, Virginia. The Governor's School of Southside Virginia is located at Southside Virginia Community College—John H. Daniel campus just outside Keysville, Virginia and the Christanna campus near Alberta, Virginia. It is one of 18 magnet Governor's Schools in Virginia.
Rocky Run Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church in Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in 1857, and is a one-story, frame Greek Revival style building. It has a two-room plan consisting of a narrow narthex and a nave. The front facade features a Roman Doric distyle pedimented porch, which frames the paired, four panel door church entrance. Also on the property is a contributing privy and church cemetery.
NRHP reference number: 95000828
Church Home for Aged, Infirm and Disabled Colored People is a historic hospital building for African Americans located at Brodnax, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in 1881–1883, and is a three-story, 6,000-square-foot wood-frame structure with horizontal lapped weatherboard walls and a slate clipped-gable roof. Also on the property are a contributing hospital supervisor's residence and smokehouse. The house is now used as a bed and breakfast establishment.
NRHP reference number: 04000910
Smoky Ordinary is an unincorporated area in Brunswick County, Virginia.
WWDW is an adult hits formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Alberta, Virginia, serving the Southside. WWDW is owned and operated by John Byrne, through licensee Byrne Acquisition Group, LLC. The station brands itself as "107.7 The Lake".
website: http://www.3wdfm.com/
Mason–Tillett House, also known as Rock Hill, Mason's, Long's Farm, and Brunswick Plantation, is a historic plantation house at Valentines, Brunswick County, Virginia. Built about 1780, it is a T-shaped, two-story frame structure with a 1+1⁄2-story addition added about 1832. The front facade features a two-story pedimented porch. The interior features exceptional surviving grained and marbleized woodwork. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
NRHP reference number: 03001443
Brunswick County Courthouse Square is a historic county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing objects. They are the courthouse building, a clerk's office, library, jail, Confederate war monument, and a simple granite slab monument commemorating the county's veterans of World War I to the Vietnam War. Together they constitute a classic Southern courthouse square. The courthouse was built in 1854–55, as a two-story, gable-roofed rectangular brick building in the Greek Revival style. In 1939, a rear brick addition was completed, creating a T-shaped plan. The clerk's office is a two-story brick building built in 1893, with rear additions built in 1924 and 1939. The library was built in 1941.
NRHP reference number: 74002110
Hobson's Choice is an historic home located near Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in the Palladian style about 1794 by Dr. Richard Feild for his bride Ann Meade, on land the groom bought from his father-in-law. The Edinburgh educated physician also had considerable knowledge of botany and astronomy, edited The Intelligencer and Petersburg Commercial Advertiser, and three times served as a Presidential elector. Although Feild died in 1829, the plantation stayed in the family until 1870.
NRHP reference number: 80004174
Southside Virginia Community College (SVCC) is a public community college with two campuses in Virginia, one near Alberta in Brunswick County, and the John H. Daniel Campus, just outside Keysville in Charlotte County. It is part of the Virginia Community College System. It was founded in 1970 and has the largest geographic service area of any community college in the state, covering 10 counties and the city of Emporia.
Street address: 109 Campus Dr, Alberta, VA, 23821 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.southside.edu, http://www.sv.cc.va.us/
Brick House, also known as Woodlands, is a historic plantation house located at White Plains, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built about 1831–1833, and began as a two-story, brick I-house. It was remodeled in 1860, with the addition of the massive hexastyle portico covering the entire front facade. Also on the property is a contributing 19th-century outbuilding connected to the main house by a covered walkway.
NRHP reference number: 82004544
WPZR is a Christian Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Emporia, Virginia, serving Emporia, Lawrenceville, and South Hill in Virginia and Roanoke Rapids in North Carolina. WPZR simulcasts its sister station WPER, Fredericksburg, VA. WPZR is owned and operated by Baker Family Stations.
website: http://www.spiritfm.com/
WHLQ (105.5 FM) is a Black Gospel and Urban Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Lawrenceville, Virginia, serving Lawrenceville and Brunswick County, Virginia. WHLQ is owned and operated by Ilmar and Gerardo Ruiz, through licensee Hosanna Christian Media, Inc.
website: http://www.whlq105.com/
Street address: 133 West Hicks Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 133 W. Hicks Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868 (from Wikidata)
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St. Paul's School, also known as St. Paul's Chapel School, is a historic Rosenwald school building for African Americans located at Meredithville, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in 1920, and is a one-room school measuring approximately 20 feet by 40 feet. It is of wood-frame construction, sheathed in un-beaded weatherboards, and covered by a standing seam metal roof.
NRHP reference number: 04000037