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2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Amherst ...

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   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.

3. Amherst County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   UTC−4 (EDT) Congressional district. 5th. Website. www.countyofamherst.com. Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is also named Amherst.

4. Adam Thoroughgood - Wikipedia

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   The London Company lost its charter in 1624 and Virginia became a royal colony. In 1634, the colony was divided into shires, a term still in use in Virginia 350 years later, and was soon renamed counties. Adam is credited with using his place of birth in England when helping name New Norfolk County when it was formed from Elizabeth City County ...

5. Tuckahoes and Cohees - Wikipedia

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   In the Colony of Virginia, Anglican planters of eastern Virginia were called Tuckahoes, to differentiate them from Cohees[note 1] —German, Irish and Scotch-Irish immigrants that settled in the Shenandoah Valley, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains in what is now Western Virginia and West Virginia. [2] The Cohees were the first Europeans to ...

6. Geddes (Clifford, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   Geddes (Clifford, Virginia) /  37.66583°N 78.98750°W  / 37.66583; -78.98750. Geddes is a historic home located near Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in several stages between about 1762 and the mid-19th century. It is a 11⁄2 -story, Colonial era frame house of post and beam construction with a hipped roof.

7. Solomon Stratton - Wikipedia

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   Solomon Stratton. Solomon Stratton (c. 1745–1818) was an American soldier and explorer born in Amherst County, Virginia. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and George Rogers Clark 's 1778 expedition to Illinois in which Fort Kaskaskia was captured from the British. After learning of the purpose and destination of the Clark's expedition ...