Prince Edward County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,849. Its county seat is Farmville.
Goochland County is a county located in the Piedmont of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its southern border is formed by the James River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,727. Its county seat is Goochland.
Cumberland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,675. Its county seat is Cumberland.
Buckingham County is a rural United States county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and containing the geographic center of the state. Buckingham County is part of the Piedmont region of Virginia, and the county seat is Buckingham.
Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County. The population was 7,473 at the 2020 census. It was in a major tobacco growing area. Coal mining and brick making also occurred in the area.
Southside, or Southside Virginia, has traditionally referred to the portion of the state south of the James River, the geographic feature from which the term derives its name. This was the first area to be developed in the colonial period.
The Virginia High School League (VHSL) is the principal sanctioning organization for interscholastic athletic competition among public high schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The VHSL first sponsored debate and also continues to sponsor state championships in several academic activities.
The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina. To the north, the region continues from Virginia into central Maryland and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
The Pioneer District is a high school conference in the state of Virginia that comprises high schools located in Southwest Virginia
The Cumberland District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws its members from the western part of Southwest Virginia. The schools in the Cumberland District compete in Region 1D with the schools of the Black Diamond District and the Hogoheegee District.
State Route 45 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 39.72 miles (63.92 km) from the junction of U.S. Route 15 Business and US 460 Business in Farmville north to SR 6 at Georges Tavern. SR 45 is the primary north–south highway of Cumberland County, where the highway meets US 60 near the county seat, Cumberland.
Virginia's fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. The 5th district includes the majority of Southside Virginia, though it stretches as far as the Richmond suburbs. Within the district are the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, and Lynchburg.
Paul Carrington was a Virginia planter, lawyer, judge and politician. He served in the House of Burgesses after the creation of Charlotte County and through the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, then represented Charlotte County, as well as neighboring Halifax and Prince Edward Counties in the Virginia Senate after the conflict before legislators elected him as a justice of the Virginia Court of Appeals. He was a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788 and cast his vote for ratification of the United States Constitution, although his son George Carrington, who represented Halifax County, voted against ratification.
Fluvanna County High School is a public school about two miles west of Palmyra, Virginia on Virginia State Route 53. It opened in 1934 as one of the first county consolidated high schools in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. The school is noted for its unique nickname, the Flying Flucos.
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.
The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 was a constitutional convention for the state of Virginia, held in Richmond from October 5, 1829, to January 15, 1830.
