Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads

Coal Mining Chronology in Chesterfield

1835 Mid-Lothian Coal Mining Company is chartered.

1836 The Company organizes with 3,000 shares valued at $100 each with 1,000 shares being sold to raise $100,000 capital. The Wooldridge family contributes 404.5 acres valued at 300,000. Four ...

Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads

The Mid-Lothian African Church

Near the Grove Shaft, 54 free blacks, slaves and six white males at the Mid-Lothian Coal Mining Company started the Mid-Lothian African Church on February 8, 1846. Assisted by the company the 60 member congregation built a ...

Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads

Early History of the Grove Shaft

1836-61

The Grove Shaft plunged 625 feet and took workmen three years to dig. The Wooldridges employed 150 men and boys. Twenty-five mules stabled underground pulled coal carts on an underground railroad. Workmen, – white, free ...

Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads

Local Coal Mining in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Outcroppings of coal along the south bank of the James River in what is now Powhatan County were discovered circa 1700. A hunter from the nearby Huguenot settlement, Manakintown, dislodged lumps of ...

Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads

Coal Mining Chronology in Chesterfield

1835 Mid-Lothian Coal Mining Company is chartered.

1836 The Company organizes with 3,000 shares valued at $100 each with 1,000 shares being sold to raise $100,000 capital. The Wooldridge family contributes 404.5 acres valued at 300,000. Four ...

Lost Mountain Cross-Roads

On May 23-24, 1864, Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk's Corps (CS) marched from Allatoona, Bartow Co., to Dallas, Paulding Co., passing Lost Mountain Post Office.

On June 4-5, Polk's Corps withdrew from the Dallas-New Hope front to Lost Mtn., the position ...

Jones’s Crossroads

Forts Facing Forts

For the first time since the Battle of Gettysburg, most of the Union army faced Gen. Robert E. Lee on July 12, 1863. The Federals were firmly entrenched on a ridge parallel to the Sharpsburg-Hagerstown Turnpike a quarter ...

Jones’ Crossroads

This crossing served during July 10-15, 1863, as an anchor for the flanks of such gathering Federal forces as the Reserve Artillery and the Second, Third, and Twelfth Corps. Minor skirmishes with elements of Lee's besieged Army of Northern Virginia ...

Crossroads of History

Route 40 & 11 Cross At This Point

In the court house that stood on this site Confederate Gen. John McCausland was given $20,000 in cash and all of the suits, hats, shoes, boots, shirts and socks that could be found ...

Monroe’s Crossroads

Gen. Kilpatrick's Union cavalry repulsed Gen. Hampton's Confederate cavalry there, March 10, 1865, ten miles north. Now in Fort Bragg area.

Marker is at the intersection of Fayetteville Road (U.S. 401) and Vass Road (County Road 1300), on the right when ...