Bland County is a United States county located in the southwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Like most of Southwestern Virginia, it is part of the Appalachian region. The county seat is the unincorporated village of Bland.
Wytheville is a town in, and the county seat of, Wythe County, in western Virginia, United States. It is named after George Wythe, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. Wytheville's population was 8,211 at the 2010 census. Interstate Highways 77 and 81 were constructed to intersect at the town, long a crossroads for travelers.
The Battle of Cove Mountain was a minor skirmish of the American Civil War, fought on May 10, 1864, in the southwest corner of Virginia near Cove Mountain in Wythe County.
Beverley Randolph was an American politician from Virginia. From 1788 to 1791, he served as the eighth Governor of Virginia.
The Jackson Ferry Shot Tower is 75-foot (23 m) tall tower used for manufacturing lead shot located in Wythe County, Virginia and now adjacent to the New River Trail State Park, a lineal rail trail park connecting the historic towns of Pulaski and Galax, Virginia.
State Route 90 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Main Street, the state highway runs 1.73 miles (2.78 km) from SR 616 and SR 749 north to Interstate 81 (I-81) within Rural Retreat in western Wythe County. SR 90 connects Rural Retreat with I-81 and U.S. Route 11.
Wythe Township is one of twenty-four townships in Hancock County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 248 and it contained 121 housing units.
A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.
Wythe is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia.
The Wythe neighborhood is named after one of the original signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, George Wythe.
The oldest historic portion of the Wythe neighborhood in Hampton, Va is called Olde Wythe.
Richard Taliaferro was a colonial architect and builder in Williamsburg, Virginia, in what is now the United States. Among his works is Wythe House, a Georgian-style building that was built in 1750 or 1755. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970. Other works were public buildings, including the Governor's Palace, the Capitol, and the President's House at the College of William & Mary.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wythe County, Virginia.
The Wythe County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 29,235 people within 463 square miles (1,200 km2) of jurisdiction within Wythe County, VA.
Groseclose is a populated place and unincorporated community in Wythe County, Virginia, United States.
Wythe County Poorhouse Farm is a historic poor farm complex located at Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The poor farm was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1957. It was the second poor farm in Wythe County; the first was in operation from 1825 to 1858. The property includes the contributing Queen Anne style overseer's house, eight pauper homes, a shed, a spring house, smokehouse, wash house, and chicken coop. The property is open to the public for visitation and historical interpretation.
District 19 of the Virginia Senate is a senatorial district made up of part of Bedford County, Carroll County, Floyd County, part of Franklin County, part of Montgomery County, part of Roanoke County, and part of Wythe County as well as the whole of Salem in the U.S. state of Virginia. This district is currently represented by David Suetterlein.
Raymond Arthur Byrd was born April 2, 1895 in Speedwell, Wythe County, Virginia to Stephen and Josephine Sheffey Byrd. Byrd was the second of four children born in the family. He was an African-American farmhand living in the Black Lick district of Wythe County, Virginia, accused of rape and subsequently lynched by a mob on August 15, 1926. Byrd was kidnapped from the Wytheville jail by a mob of masked men, shot, bludgeoned, and dragged several miles before being hung from a tree branch. Byrd's lynching became the subject of national news and prompted anti-lynching legislation to be signed into law by Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia in 1928. The only man indicted by a Grand Jury for the lynching, Floyd Willard, was acquitted after only ten minutes of deliberation during the trial on July 19, 1927.
The 1940 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1940. Voters chose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Virginia's 6th House of Delegates district is one of 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature. District 6 covers all of Carroll County, Wythe County, and portions of Smyth County, Virginia. The district is represented by Republican Delegate Jeff Campbell.
