Pittsylvania Land Of Lost Plantations And Legends
Bonnie Ross chronicles Pittsylvania County from its 1767 founding to a forthcoming bicentennial celebration. The piece surveys historical figures like Washington and Coles, the evolution of Chatham as county seat, and notorious local lore including the Joe Clark hanging. It notes shifts in population, education, and land use as development pressures grow.
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Bonnie Ross
Pittsylvania County
Virginia
Pittsylvania
Maud Carter Clement
United States
Col. Coles
Waller
Congress
General Assembly
Richard Johnson
Daniel Coleman
Raleigh White
John Dabney
Thomas M
William Pitt
Earl of
Chatham
General Assembly of Virginia
Tarpley White
J. H. Hargrave
William E. Sims
E. T. Jones
William M. Tredway Jr
Julius Saunders
Carter Collie
Main
Langhorne Jones
Jones
State Department of Corrections
Diedrick and Pleasants
Danville
Pauly Bros
St. Louis
Joe Clark
Betsy Brown
Destine
Alfred Barksdale
Clark
Barksdale
Old Joe Clark
Frances Hallam Hurt
Tanyard Branch
Joe
Simpson
Duval Porter
Cascade
Dan River
Cascade Creek
County And City Lawmakers For Two Centuries DELEGATES 1776
List of delegates and senators spanning 1776 to present, naming numerous individuals, multiple years, and district shifts. Highlights early delegates like Benjamin Lankford and John Wilson, through 20th century changes with Danville and Pittsylvania representation, ending with Coleman B. Yeatts in 1972 onward.
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Benjamin Lankford
Robert Wiliams
Abram Shelton
Peter Perkins
John Wilson
Thomas Terry
Haynes Morgan
Constant Perkins
William Dix
William Warrison
William Lynch
Matthews Clay
Thomas Tunstall
Stephen Coleman
William Payne
Joseph Carter
William Clark
Robert Nevin
Theoderick MacHoberts
Thomas H. Wooding
Robert Devin
Edmund Tunstall
Daniel Coleman
Rawley White
Thomas H. Weeding
William Walton
Thomas TH. Wooding
William Swanson
George Tucker
Thomas N
Charles R. Warren
J. Blair
W. H. Buntin
B.L. Warren
Joseph B. Anderson
H. D. Shepherd
Robert T. Carter
J. B. Watkins
Harry Ficklen
L.A. Bryant
Maitland H. Bustard
Danville
A. Lovell Witcher
Gretna
L. A. Braynt
Clinton A. Fowler
Ringgold
Langhorne Jones
Chatham
Maitland UH. Bustard
Charles Ashworth
Tunstall
Hubert D. Bennett
Coleman B. Yeatts
W. C. Clarke
Callands
Frestan Moses
T. Bryan Tate
Preston Moses
Landon R. Wyatt
Samuel Swanson
Lindsey EL. Moore
Melvin Giles
C. Nelson Payne Whitmells
C. Stuart Wheatly
Hunt M. Whitehead
C. Nelson Payne
Randall
Reynolds
W. Carrington Thompson
W. C
Dan” Daniel
J. Randolph Eastwood
Keeling
Randall 0. Reynolds
George B. Anderson
Calvin W. Fowler
Randall C. Reynolds
George B
William H. Wooding
George Townes
James M. Whittle
Elisha Keen
Abner Anderson
Michael H. Clark
W. F. Clark
W. T. Clark
Oh 1
Iurt
James I. Tredway
Eugene Withers
Roger A. James
Rorer A. James
Joseph Whitehead
W. A. Garrett
George T. Rison
Nathaniel E. Clement
Edwin 5. Reid
Edwin J. Harvey
Robert C. Vaden
Henry County
Pittsylvania
Henry
Patrick
Imo-Ai
Roberts
Henry, Patrick
Franklin
Pittsylvania County
Campbell County
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Lee County
Whitmell
P. Tunstall
John Keen
Robert W. Williams
Coleman D. Bennett
James Lanier
Vincent Witcher
Thomas Grasty
Griffith D. Neal
Algernon S. Huford
Andrews J Whitehead
Richard M. Kirby
Thomas W. Watton
John Gilmer
E. F. Keen
A. S. Buford
Daniel Ragsdale
William Tark
Watter Coles
W. J. Fulton
MH. Clark
T. J. Gosney
W. T. Sutherlin
Scruggs
George T. Berger
William A. J. Fiony
J. Scrauggs
James Lankin
William T. Clark
William A. Witcher
L. Scruggs
J. H. Watson
Green Pace
J. J. Wilkinson
W. A.J. Finny
Beverly B. Munford
Joel Oliver
Beverly A. Davis
T. W. Keen
R. J. Anderson
Crispen Dickenson
James Schoolfield
Dryden Wright
S. T. Mustain
Rorer A. James Beverly Davis
Rorer A. James J. W. Gregory
Nathan Hall
J. J. White
R. I. Anderson
J. W. Gregory
J. I. White
S. H. Wood
W. H. Cocke
Henry Berger
C. G. Watson
W. T. Wilson
Henry Allen
A. M. Darnall
H. C. Clement
R. L. Dodson
John E. Taylor
J. D. Reynolds
Logan Coleman
George C. Cabell
J. W. Bruce
J. W. Greagry
James B. Pannill
S. F. Clement
J. E. Taylor
W. N. Brown
Samuel J
Wilson
S. Fletcher Clement
W. XN. Brown
Samuel H. Wilson
Charles W. Anderson
W. N Brown
Berryman Green
J. Hundley
John W. Carter
Edmund Winston
Charles Lynch
Robert Clark
John Trigg
George Penn
Edward Watts
George Hairston Jr
Nathaniel H. Claiborne
Joseph Martin
Benjamin W.S. Cabell
David Dyer
Whitmell Tunstall
Cirk Penn
Crawford Turner
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