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Amherst County was created in 1761 out of Albemarle County, and it was named in honor of Lord Jeffery Amherst, the so-called "Conqueror of Canada". In 1807 as population increased, the county was reduced in size in order to form Nelson County. Tobacco was the major cash crop of the county during its early years.
GNIS feature ID. 1498447 [4] Website. Official website. Amherst (formerly Dearborn) is a town in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2010 census. [5] It is the county seat of Amherst County. [6] Amherst is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amherst 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.
People from Amherst County, Virginia (3 C, 28 P) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.
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Pages in category "People from Amherst County, Virginia" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Occupation. Lawyer. Title. Delegate, County Clerk. Samuel M. Garland (November 15, 1812 – 1880) was a nineteenth-century lawyer and political figure from Virginia. Garland was the Clerk of Court for Amherst County and was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 .
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