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Sussex County, Virginia

其他書名	A Heritage Recalled by the Land
出版	Gary M. Williams, 2012
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry
ISBN	06920191709780692019177
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dXopmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This is a definitive history of one of Virginia's southeastern Tidewater counties. The span of the narrative stretches from the 1988 archaeological discovery of the earliest evidence of HOMO SAPIENS on the North American continent, at the Cactus Hill site in the county, to recent environmental challenges which have affected the county. The volume largely focuses on the land and its association with people and events of the past. There are numerous maps which serve to identify where certain people lived and where certain events took place. Sussex was one of the last Tidewater counties to be formed, due to a long established recognition of the Blackwater River as a line of demarcation for the Nottoway (Cheroenhaka) Indians. The establishment of College land within its confines effectively demolished the integrity of that line in 1693, and the land was rapidly settled in the early decades of the 18th century. By 1754, there were enough inhabitants for a new county, and Sussex County came into being. A significant spiritual upheaval led by the Methodists and Baptists characterized the county's colonial era, as did a growing animosity against the Mother County. After Governor Dunmore removed the colony's supply to gunpowder from the magazine in Williamsburg in April 1775, Sussex militiamen parpared for war. It was in Sussex that Lord Cornwallis met Benedict Arnold in May 1781 to plan his ill-fated entrance into Virginia, a decision which resulted in American independence. Following the Revolution, the county was fiercely Anti-Federalist, and it long remained a haven for exponents of limited government. The relations between blacks and whites caught up in the misfortune of slavery, the emergence of "free persons of colour," and recurrent efforts at emancipation receive due commentary. An entire chapter is devoted to the county's involvement in the Civil War. The ultimate objective of the Union forces to destroy the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, which crossed the western part of the county, explains the eventual visitation of the war in 1864, with all the miseries it inflicted upon county residents. The battle which took place at Sappony Church in the county in June 1864, and the Beefsteak Raid led by Confederate General Wade Hampton in September 1864, routing more than 2,000 beef cattle across the county for General Lee's hungry troops, were among the last hurrahs for the struggling South in Virginia. The advent of narrow-gauged railroads across the county, along with telephone lines and eventually the radio, brought the county closer to the outside world, as the county moved into the 20th century. The Yale area of the county proved to be a haven for immigrating Russions before the First World War, and their presence in the county is recognized. All county citizens were deeply affected by the two world wars and the coming of the Atomic Age, which threatened the lives of humans everywhere. Each of the book's nine chapters is followed by copious endnotes, and appendices follow which list county officials and legislative representatives since 1754, when the county was cut off from Surry, and maps follow to show the location and approximate boundaries of most of the early land grants, or patents, for the first time."--Page 4 of cover.