Come Visit Virginia's Heartland
The Tranquil Heartland of Virginia
A half hour drive southwest from Richmond, Virginia, one enters the tranquil but history packed region of Virginia’s Heartland, comprised of Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenburg, and Prince Edward counties. The Heartland region has gorgeous countryside, seven state parks and four wildlife management areas offering lots of outdoor recreational opportunities, many historic sites, and unique shopping opportunities.
The Town of Farmville is the retail and service hub of Virginia’s Heartland, with many shops and stores, including Green Front Furniture, offering over 700,000 square feet of furniture, carpet, and accessories, imported from all over and displayed in renovated tobacco warehouses and in several stores along Farmville’s Main Street, in the historic district of the historic town. Farmville is just a few miles southwest from Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park, and is the town in which General Ulysses S. Grant wrote the first letter to General Robert E. Lee, suggesting surrender on April 7, 1865.
Farmville is also a college town, with Longwood University at its center and Hampden-Sydney College just south of town. Both institutions of higher education are steeped in history, yet Farmville has a youthful spirit, with cafés and coffee shops lining Main Street and the back streets of the historic district.
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments