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  Southside Virginia
Southside Virginia stretches from the James River south to the North Carolina border.
Comprised of counties with some of Virginia's largest slave populations in the 19th century, Southside Virginia was also the scene of two important events during the Civil War.
Largely agricultural, Southside is historically the state's major center of tobacco farming, while the southeastern section of the region is known for its cotton and peanut cultivation.
www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwedo/archweek/2003/southside   (303 words)

  
  Southside (Virginia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The major center of the "Southside Virginia" area is generally considered to be Danville.
The term Southside Virginia is generally used to refer to the second area, and not the first.
The area east of Southampton and Prince George counties is not considered part of Southside Virginia, but rather, is known as South Hampton Roads (or locally, simplly the "Southside" as opposed to Hampton and Newport News as the "Peninsula".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southside_Virginia   (261 words)

  
 Halifax County, Virginia, History
Southside Virginia's initial settlement was due, in large part, to the decrease in the role of the Chesapeake region's tobacco trade.
Virginia's tobacco economy during the early-nineteenth century was characterized as a transitional period, as it adjusted from the declining Chesapeake tobacco trade to the expanding Southside tobacco market.
Virginia was included in the wave of northern ire that erupted over southern actions during the summer and fall of 1865.
www.oldhalifax.com /county/historicalMonograph.htm   (11972 words)

  
 Southside Region: Geography of Virginia
Southside is traditionally defined as the region south of the James River, east of the Blue Ridge, west of Tidewater, and north of No' Carolina.
In the early 1700's the colonial governors were accused of favoring development of the region north of the James River, and "Southside" was the frontier at Southampton and Brunswick counties.
The title chosen for this work, makes appropriate some explanation of what is meant by "The Southside." The Southside is territory on the south side of James River but just exactly what area is referred to when the term is used is not always clear.
www.virginiaplaces.org /regions/14southside.html   (1534 words)

  
 NRDC: America's Animal Factories - Virginia
In Virginia's Shenandoah and Potomac River basins alone, poultry produces one and a half times as much nutrient pollution as is generated by human waste in the same area.
On Virginia's Eastern Shore, close to one third of the nitrogen and two-fifths of the phosphorus nutrients entering the Chesapeake from that region are attributed to animal waste pollution.
According to research by the Virginia office of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a significant number of hog facilities were not registered and are operating without a general permit.
www.nrdc.org /water/pollution/factor/stvir.asp   (1959 words)

  
 :Southside Messenger: News
Southside Virginia has the opportunity to capitalize on the unbridled potential of the energy revolution by converting what has traditionally been a tobacco farming area into a switchgrass growing region.
Unless investors feel secure that Southside will make a steady supply of locally grown switchgrass available to them, then chances are they will seek a different location to take root.
According to local businessman Ed Brammer, Southside is one of three candidates that have a chance to land a bio-solid processing plant.
www.southsidemessenger.com /articles/2006/06/22/news/othernews1.txt   (1139 words)

  
 Southside
The two branches of the GEORGE family settled in Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties, Virginia, were descended from John and Richard, the youngest sons of Robert and Sarah.
John GEORGE, born in Essex County, Virginia, abt 1725, was noted in Halifax County, Virginia, as early as 1766, when a land survey referred to the line of Benjamin LANKFORD and John GEORGE on Allen's Creek.
Frances GEORGE was born in Caroline County, Virginia, and died in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
home.usaa.net /~dracalpha/GEORGE/Southside2.htm   (2761 words)

  
 Southside Planning District Commission
The Southside Planning District Commission was formed in 1968, as one of 21 planning districts.
The member jusrisdictions of the Southside Planning District are the Counties of Brunswick, Halifax, and Mecklenburg and the Towns of South Boston and South Hill.
A Planning District Commission is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia, chartered under the Regional Cooperation Act by the local governments of each planning district.
www.southsidepdc.org /index.htm   (290 words)

  
 DailyProgress.com | Monikers, marketing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For the record, Southern Virginia includes the counties of Brunswick, Charlotte, Greensville, Halifax, Henry, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and Pittsylvania and the cities of Danville, Emporia and Martinsville.
Charlottesville-Central Virginia hasn’t been officially rechristened, but the region is expected to include those jurisdictions that are part of the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development, which proposed the branding campaign - namely, the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson and Orange.
Virginia’s odd arrangement of counties and independent cities is just too tough to encapsulate in a logo or slogan.
www.dailyprogress.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192239986&path=!news!opinion   (477 words)

  
 eC o r r i d o r s - News - By Topic - STIRCNE Reports - Tobacco Commission lights up Virginia's Southside region
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission is awarding an economic development grant to build an open access, redundant, fiber-optic network with routes serving the 56 industrial parks in the Southside tobacco region of Virginia.
Southside, which has lost considerable manufacturing jobs during the recession, includes 22 counties and the cities of Martinsville and Danville.
The report examined the telecommunications providers and placement of their fiber networks in the region and discussed a low-cost mesh-network design based on a financial model that could be duplicated in other rural areas of the United States.
www.ecorridors.vt.edu /news/topic/?article_id=75&cat_type=topic&cat_id=44   (1030 words)

  
 The Bank of Southside Virginia - Main Street, Carson, VA 23830 - USABancShares.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Bank of Southside Virginia is a commercial bank with state charter.
It is Fed nonmember and is supervised by the FDIC.
The Bank of Southside Virginia began operations on 8/10/1911.
www.usabancshares.com /institution/1/11580.htm   (74 words)

  
 Southside Virginia Community College Associate degree Clinical + Medical Laboratory Technician.
Southside Virginia Community College is a Public, 2-year School with 4,686 students in Alberta, VA General Description for:
Southside Virginia Community College Associate degree Clinical + Medical Laboratory Technician: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists, to perform routine medical laboratory procedures and tests and to apply preset strategies to record and analyze data.
Southside Virginia Community College is a Public, 2-year School with 4,686 students in Alberta, VA.
www.universities.com /On-Campus/Southside_Virginia_Community_College_Associate_degree_Clinical__Medical_Laboratory_Technician.html   (213 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series M:
Tammany, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, to William Rust Baskervill, Swepson, Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
The accounts were kept in Cumberland County, Virginia, and concern, in part, James A. Boatwright (1851); the purchase of Lucy (a slave) from Drury Boatwright (1824); and the payment of land and personal property taxes in Cumberland and Fluvanna counties, Virginia.
Section 10 consists of forty-nine items, bonds, 1862-1864, of Charles Bruce with Charlotte County, Virginia (signed by James Presley Marshall, Charles A. Raine, Winslow Robinson, and William A. Smith and bear seals); and receipts, 1864, of Lancaster and Co. of Richmond, Virginia (on behalf of the Confederate States Treasury Department), to Charles Bruce (concerning bonds).
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm5.htm   (11716 words)

  
 Virginia Community College System
Southside Virginia Community College has also been VERY active in preparing for the Blackboard and student e-mail upgrades, both in preparing College support materials and working with other colleges to develop this material.
Southside Virginia Community College will continue to work with the Southside Planning District, Piedmont Planning District, Crater Planning District, and Virginia Heartland to bring new industries to Southside Virginia.
Southside Virginia Community College will continue to work with the Southside Planning District, Piedmont Planning District, Crater Planning District, and Virginia Heartland Industries to bring new industries to Virginia.
www.vccs.edu /magazine/collegeplans/FY05/southside_virginia/southside_virginia_workforce.htm   (1121 words)

  
 Southside, WV News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
West Virginia's coal economy shows no signs of burning out, but the state's manufacturing mainstays need to get nimbler and more specialized to stop the job exodus.
A Mississauga tractor-trailer driver was lucky to escape injury on the weekend when he lost control of his truck on a dangerous stretch of highway in West Virginia.
West Virginia has contributed millions of dollars to help victims of Hurricane Katrina since the tragedy struck a year ago.
www.topix.net /city/southside-wv   (589 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Southside (Virginia)"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Some also include the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Portsmouth in this definition.
The exception is with Hampton Roads residents, who nearly always refer to Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth as the "Southside" as opposed to Hampton and Newport News as the "Peninsula".
The Richmond-Petersburg area is never included in the above senses of the term, where the term "Southside of Richmond" may apply.
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=southside_(%56irginia)   (234 words)

  
 Outdoor Recreation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As you explore Virginia's Retreat you don't want to stray too far from where the action is. Set up a home base in one of these state or private campgrounds for easy access to your car and the freedom to explore a wide area each day.
The slightly longer growing season (and warmer climate) of this part of the state lends itself to large, healthy fish that are bigger at any given age than their counterparts elsewhere.
Virginia created a handy system in the Piedmont when it coupled state parks with state forests.
www.varetreat.com /outdoor.asp   (1398 words)

  
 Lightwave - Funding increases for Southside Virginia network project
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, which got the Southside network project officially underway when it awarded a $3.35-million economic development grant (and the EDA agreed to match in October 2003) is increasing its award to match that of the EDA, in line with federal funding policies.
The Southside project, if all goes according to plan, will connect all 22 counties and 56 industrial parks in Southside Virginia via an open access broadband communications network designed to promote economic development in the region by January 2006.
MBC is also participating in a price auction to procure an optical pathway from Southside Virginia to the Equinox point of presence in the Tyson's Corner, Reston, VA, area, which will give the region access to the networks of tier one carriers.
lw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=199127&VERSION_NUM=1   (924 words)

  
 Southside (Virginia) - Definition, explanation
Southside is the colloquial name given to a broad swath of southeastern and/or south-central Virginia.
The major center of this area is generally considered to be Danville.
Serving Southside Virginia, South Central Virginia and Piedmont Carolina.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/so/southside__virginia_.php   (439 words)

  
 Mirago : Regional: North America: United States: Virginia: Regions: Southside Virginia
Bank of Southside Virginia - Provides checking, savings, and lending services to southern Virginia.
Civil War Traveler in Southside Virginia - Information about civil war battlefields and sites in the area.
Virginia's Heartland - Economic development region within the state of Virginia comprised of Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenberg and Prince Edward Counties.
www.miragorobot.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2fRegional%2fNorth_America%2fUnited_States%2fVirginia%2fRegions%2fSouthside_Virginia   (177 words)

  
 Trexle - Southside Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Southside Virginia - Student built and maintained internet resource.
Southside Virginia Community College - Comprehensive educational institution providing both technical and transfer programs to the residents of a ten county service area in rural Southside Virginia
Southside Virginia Virtu-Projects - Educational interface for internet projects in Southside, Virginia schools.
www.trexle.com /Directory/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Virginia/Regions/Southside_Virginia   (142 words)

  
 American Southside Virginia, Virginia: Regions: Southside Virginia in Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bank of Southside Virginia Provides checking, savings, and lending services to southern Virginia.
Southside Virginia Association of Realtors View member listing and association news.
Virginia's Heartland Economic development region within the state of Virginia comprised of Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenberg and Prince Edward Counties.
virginia.askfire.com /southside_virginia_virginia.html   (194 words)

  
 Southside Virginia Families, Volume I : Genealogical Publishing Company
John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area.
Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches.
Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep and Tangled Branches.
www.genealogical.com /index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=531&ref=1458   (156 words)

  
 Virginia
This is the Journal kept by Dr. Walker as he explored the vast reaches of the wilderness of western Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky during the 1750s.
Although marriages were recorded in Virginia prior to 1853, parents were not listed unless the bride or groom was underage.
These are the claims of citizens of the county to Virginia after the Revolutionary War for cattle, horses, meals, services, etc taken by American troops during the War.
www.barnettesbooks.com /virginia.html   (3524 words)

  
 Southside Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Virginia Department of Education awarded Region VIII Superintendents' Study Group with a federal technical assistance grant in 2003.
With their continued support, the Southside Virginia No Child Left Behind partnership was established.
The purpose of the Southside Virginia No Child Left Behind Partnership pilot is to provide technical assistance to schools and school divisions in Southside Virginia in implementing the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
www.svnclb.org   (173 words)

  
 SouthsideVirginiaSPCA
The Southside S.P.C.A. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to eliminating animal cruelty and suffering.
Our ultimate mission is to find a good home for every dog and cat throughout the twelve counties we serve, while eliminating the unwanted pet population through active participation with spay/neuter programs and community education.
Southside SPCA is still raising funds to complete all 3 buildings.
www.southsidespca.org   (192 words)

  
 Official Site of the Governor of Virginia - Tim Kaine
March 14, 2007: Governor Kaine visits Southside Virginia, discussing economic development efforts in Galax; transportation initiatives along Route 58 in Hillsville and Stuart; and his health care initiatives during a visit to a hospital in Martinsville.
Several bills support Virginia high school and college students by mandating that they receive information about date violence and financial fraud and identity theft; another calls for development of policies to identify students with suicidal tendencies.
Just last August, Virginia also placed first among the 50 states in a ranking of the “Best States for Business” by Forbes.com (see news release).
www.governor.virginia.gov   (720 words)

  
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