Mid Lothian Mines Park Hike Chesterfield Virginia
Some neat old ruins to explore in this park. Part shade & part sun. 1/2 of the trail does take you around a lake. Did 3 loops around for 6 miles.
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Special Edition - Mid-Lothian Mines Park
2018 Small Project AML Award Winner - Mid-Lothian Mines Park, Virginia
The historic Mid-Lothian Mines abandoned mine land features the remains of the first documented mining in Virginia’s Richmond Coalfields. Unfortunately, the features were in serious disrepair and disintegration. Open shafts, subsidence areas and falling structures were huge safety hazards to the surrounding residential areas. After the landowner donated the land to Chester County, the state was able to close two vertical openings, stabilize and close two hazardous equipment and facilities structures, close one subsidence area, and stabilize two pits and three slumps. Today, the Mid-Lothian Historical Mines Park comprises the 42-acre reclamation site and is the most visited park in the county.
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Mid-Lothian Mines Park
Trail and Bridge Dedication Ceremony
October 15, 2015
Midlothian Mine Shaft
Check out an historic mine shaft at Mid-Lothian Mines Park thanks to video technology.
Midlo-Richmond Coal Basin, 55 Mostly Afrikans Died in Mine 1855, Slave Insurance - Haki Kweli Shakur
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Mid-Lothian Mining employed free & enslaved people to do the deadly work of digging underground. Midlothian is the site of the first commercially-mined coal in the Colony of Virginia and in what became the United States. An article in the Richmond Whig calling for “coal pit hands' who would work for the coming year was published on January 13 1846 The Midlothian Coal Mining Co. was seeking “able-bodied, healthy, well-disposed Negro men' who would work in their coal mines, and the company would pay the masters who hired these men out as well as giving the slaves an opportunity to earn their own money. Young children mostly slaves sat on the ground and sorted coal for twelve hours a day. Slaves played a prominent role in the mining history in the Midlothian area helping to dig out coal and building the mines themselves. One disturbing part of that history is that mine owners took out life insurance policies on the slaves they were using in the mines. 55 miners died here most were enslaved Afrikans,
Mercantile Capitalism: Sacred Space Black Enslaved Bodies built the U.S. Economy, Leasing & Insurance Policies on Afrikans, Nicholas Mills, who owned shares in the Midlothian Coal Mining Company, was determined to protect himself from such a calamity. So he purchased policies on more than 20 of his enslaved laborers, including Mr. York, a 40-year-old coal miner and the father of a baby boy. The premiums Mr. Mills paid in the spring of 1846 — about $7,000 in today’s dollars — Mercantile Capitalism The North Profited off a Slavery as much as The South Did! Midlothian Coal Mines Southside Slavery Chesterfield Virginia, May the Ndichie ( Ancestors ) who labored here in slavery never be forgotten Iseee!
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Right in the heart of Richmond's premier community, this renovated gem is within walking distance of the Wyndham pool and trails. Renovations include new granite counter tops, new stainless steel appliances, new ceramic tile in kitchen, new carpet upstairs and down, and all new lights and fixtures. The baths have been totally renovated to include new ceramic tile, vanities, fixtures, toilets, and showers/tubs. This lovely home is turnkey and move-in ready. Even the deck has been recently stained to free you to enjoy your beautiful new surroundings. Call Robert Hager @ 804-216-5626 for a private showing.
Stonebridge Groundbreaking in Chesterfield County Virginia
Chesterfield County, Crosland Southeast and The Kroger Co. broke ground on October 25th, 2011 at Chesterfield County's newest mixed and multi-use development, Stonebridge, which will occupy the site of the former Cloverleaf Mall, just outside the Richmond city limits.
Bermuda Hundred Virginia The Hidden History First Landing Spot of Africans - Haki Kweli Shakur
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True, every enslaved Richmonder either was born in Africa or descended from a person shipped from Africa. However, British slave ships unloaded Africans downstream at Bermuda Hundred and nearby Osborne's Landing, not in Richmond
In 1746, one-third of Africans coming to Virginia disembarked at either Bermuda Hundred or Osborne’s. Though not a full accounting, Campbell’s book indicates that between 1731 and 1774, 127 ships originating from Bristol and Liverpool brought nearly 16,000 Africans to Virginia. During this four-decade period, the majority of African slaves coming to Virginia landed in Chesterfield.
For four decades, Chesterfield County was the leading debarkation point for African-born slaves in Virginia. Records show that at least 16,000 enslaved Africans landed in what’s now Chesterfield between 1698 and 1774.
In the 1700s, a large number of enslaved Africans entered Virginia at Bermuda Hundred, (today’s Chesterfield County). Later in the century, the area was a hotbed of abolitionist sentiment and home to many of the movement’s leaders. The area’s population of free blacks grew and gained a degree of economic independence.
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Mine Land to Forest Land
Volunteers celebrate Earth Day 2017 by planting 8000 trees in Pinchot State Forest, Luzerne County.