In 1775, the Session of Hanover Presbytery met in this building, the law office of Nathaniel Venable, to lay final plans for the establishment of Hampden-Sydney College. The building was erected between 1737 and 1756 on Venable’s Plantation, “Slate Hill”, located 3 miles southeast of this site. It was moved to the campus in 1944.

Marker can be reached from College Road (County Route 692) near Via Sacra (County Route 1001).

Courtesy hmdb.org

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