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Official Web Site On 25 May 1749, the Virginia House of Burgesses separated Chesterfield from Henrico County and created the new county. The first county seat was established at Chesterfield Court House. It has continued as county seat except for 1870–1876, during Reconstruction, when the county government was located at Manchester. The latter community has been subsumed by South Richmond. The...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Official Website The county was erected (formed) in 1785, but was part of what was then known as Cheraws District until 1800, at which time Chesterfield became a district itself. Under the post-American Civil War (1861-1865) state constitution of 1867, passed during the Reconstruction era, South ...
Historic Sunset Memorial Park in Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia, was established in 1922. This historic cemetery is an important part of the Chester community, and is well-known for its expanse of open land and its many burial options. Official Website Find a Grave Billion Graves
Bethel Baptist Church is an historic church complex and cemetery located in Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a brick church with a steeply pitched gable roof in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is the third church on this site. Wings were added to the original church in 1906, 1980, and 1987. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery that in...
The Battle of Drewry's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Fort Darling, or Fort Drewry, took place on May 15, 1862, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Four Union Navy warships, including the ironclads USS Monitor and Galena, and the United States Revenue Cutter Service's ironclad USRC Naugatuck steamed up the James River to test the de...
The Battle of Proctor's Creek -- also referred to as Drewry's Bluff or Fort Darling -- was fought from May 12 to May 16, 1864, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War. Proctor's Creek was named for Charles Proctor, who lived and farmed on the land surrounding most of the creek. Wikipedia
Located in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, Virginia, the scenic 70-acre Dale Memorial Park was founded in 1960 and is completely surrounded by the beautiful Pocahontas State Park. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The Battle of Port Walthall Junction was fought May 6–7, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War. Although initially successful, the Confederates were eventually defeated, allowing Union forces to cut a railroad. The Port Walthall Junction on the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad connected with the spur to Port Walthall. Wikipedia
The Battle of Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church was fought on May 9, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Union forces were only partially successful: they inflicted damage on the local railroad, but further advance was halted. Wikipedia
The Battle of Chester Station was fought on May 10, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Confederates attacked portions of Benjamin Butler's Union forces. Wikipedia
Wikipedia Virginia State University is a historically black land-grant university located north of the Appomattox River in Ettrick, Virginia, near Petersburg. Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund....
This project is for those buried in Chesterfield Cemetery, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Find a Grave
This project is a memorial to all the miners who died in the various disasters of the Chesterfield County, Virginia coal mines. The project's goal is to create a list of the men who died in each disaster with a link to each man's Geni profile.==1839 Black Heath mine explosion==This explosion on March 18, 1839 occurred at the Maidenhead pits of the Black Heath Company of Colliers. The explosion ...