Spotsylvania County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2016 estimate, the population was 132,010. Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse. Spotsylvania County is a part of Northern Virginia and the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
Melungeon is a term traditionally applied to one of numerous "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Southeastern United States. Historically, Melungeons were associated with the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed European, African and Native American ancestry. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200.
Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,746. In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton.
James Hoge Tyler was an American soldier, writer and political figure. He served in the Virginia Senate and became the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and the 43rd Governor of Virginia. He compiled The Family of Hoge, published posthumously in 1927.
On 20 March 1924, the Virginia General Assembly successfully passed two laws that had arisen out of concerns about eugenics and race: SB 219 entitled "The Racial Integrity Act." To put it better in context, there were no other laws in the State of Virginia or in other states that formally tackled this issue, and thus its importance in United States history. With respect to its relation with eugenics, the passing of this Act was also influenced by the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 for which, according to the PBS American Experience documentary "The Eugenics Crusade," this was due to the number of cases reported that doctors evaluated where they found other genetic traits that are also found in what they perceived at the time as other races - African Americans or Native Americans in particular.
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. was a prominent Virginia politician, serving in the United States Congress and then in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
Western State Hospital, called Western State Lunatic Asylum in its early years, is a hospital for the mentally ill in Staunton, Virginia, which admitted its first patient on July 24, 1828.
The Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, formerly known as The DeJarnette Center for Human Development, is a children's mental hospital located in the city of Staunton, Virginia, in the United States.
Glenmore is a suburban development and country club Albemarle County, Virginia, just east of Charlottesville. It has a golf course, equestrian complex, swimming pool, tennis courts, and a clubhouse. The price of homes range from $500,000 to $2.5 million. The entire development is 1,300 acres (5.3 km2) in size, broken up into 824 homesites, with 500 acres (2.0 km2) maintained as common land.
Oak Corner is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded opened in 1910 as the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics near Lynchburg, Virginia in Madison Heights. It was renamed Lynchburg State Colony in 1940 and Lynchburg Training School and Hospital in 1954. Since 1983 it has been the Central Virginia Training Center.
Spring Grove is a historic home located at Oak Corner, Caroline County, Virginia. It was built in 1856, and is an Italian Villa style dwelling built for Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr. (1822-1881) on a plantation that had been owned by the DeJarnette family, French Huguenot immigrants to Virginia, since 1740. The 26 room, 12,000 square foot mansion is the third house to occupy the site.
The LaGrange Rock Shelter is an archaeological site located on private property between Leighton and Muscle Shoals in Colbert County, Alabama near the original campus of LaGrange College. The shelter measures 70 feet long by 15 feet deep and is located beneath a sandstone outcrop overlooking a dense series of Paleoindian sites in the valley below, which may have led to it being chosen for excavation.
Samuel Harris Hoge was an American attorney and Republican politician who served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Layron DeJarnette is an American illustrator, director, art director, character designer, storyboard artist, animator and caricaturist. He is best known as a character designer and art director on the Monster High web series for Mattel. and The Ricky Gervais Show for HBO. He is a Garbage Pail Kids artist for Topps and trading card illustrator for the Upper Deck Company and Cryptozoic Entertainment.
David Lloyd DeJarnette (1907-1991) was an archaeologist and professor with the University of Alabama, generally considered the "Father of Alabama Archaeology".
