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May 20, 1974 [1] Meadow Farm is a historic farm and estate in Henrico County, Virginia. [1] It is best known for its role in Gabriel's Revolution. [1] The main farmhouse was built in the early nineteenth century and is a well preserved example of small Virginia farms of the time. [1] It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Carter's Grove, also known as Carter's Grove Plantation, is a 750-acre (300 ha) plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The plantation was built for Carter Burwell, grandson of ...
Blandy Experimental Farm Historic District is a national historic district located adjacent to The Tuleyries at Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. They include a large, two-story, brick slave's quarters built about 1825; a stone and brick stables that was ...
A display shed at the park. The Meadow Event Park (also called "The Meadow") is an event center in Doswell, Virginia. Previously called the Meadow Stables, the park hosts the annual State Fair of Virginia. On March 14, 2013, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation bought the State Fair of Virginia and the Meadow Event Park from Universal Fairs LLC ...
United States Army Remount Service. A part of the Quartermaster Corps, the U.S. Army Remount Service provided horses (and later mules and dogs) as remounts to U.S. Army units. Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount ...
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame (1985) United States Racing Hall of Fame, Pillar of the Turf (2019) Christopher Chenery (September 16, 1886 – January 3, 1973) was an American engineer, businessman, and the owner/breeder of record for Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat.
Virginia City Hospital Training School (1913-1922) School of Social Work and Public Health (1917-1943) St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962) Richmond Professional Institute; Richmond Division of the College of William and Mary (1926-1969) Medical College of Virginia (1913-1968) Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing (1968 ...
Mack Miller, trainer (USA) Ian Balding, trainer ( UK) Rokeby Stables was an American thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm in Upperville, Virginia, involved with both steeplechase and flat racing. The operation was established in the late 1940s by Paul Mellon (1907–1999), who won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder in 1971 and again in 1986.