Piney Grove

The Front Line and the Home Front

In Virginia, the “Home Front” and the “Front Line”

were often just miles apart during the Civil War. In places such as Charles City County families provided their men for troops and also lost the ...

Piney Grove and Southalls

During the 18th century this property was established as a Southall family seat. Notable family members include James Barrett Southall, owner of Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern, Turner Southall, member of the committee to build Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Capitol, and historian Douglas ...

Piney Grove and E. A. Saunders

Eight miles west on "The Old Main Road" is Piney Grove. The original portion, built ca. 1800 on Southall's Plantation, is a rare survival of Tidewater log architecture. Edmund Archer Saunders, a successful Richmond businessman, operated a store at Piney ...

Pine Grove Rosenwald School

(Front text)

This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded

in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller ...

Piney Grove Church Meeting Site

Late in the 18th century, the Methodist Episcopal Church confronted the possibility of schism. James O'Kelly, a Methodist minister, began challenging Bishop Francis Asbury regarding his appointive powers, his management of church affairs, and other organizational matters late in the ...

Pine Grove / Turbeville School

Log Bldg. This site - 1850

Used Church Building - 1854

Frame Building - 1889 - 1912

Brick Bldg. On current site - 1912

E C Hist. Sites - 2000

Turbeville Ruritan Club

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 301/378) near Dials ...

Pine Grove Cemetery G.A.R. Memorial

G.A.R.

Marker can be reached from Grand Avenue (Business U.S. 51) near Bernard Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pine Grove

Late 1854, in a grove of tall pines Albert Leonard built his Pine Grove Home & Inn & was first postmaster. It was located at the junction of stage roads to Jackson and Clinton.

Pine Grove post office was established ...