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  Surry County SPCA
The Surry County SPCA has been in existence since the summer of 1993 and became incorporated on October 12, 1993.
The SPCA was the brain child of long time Surry County resident, Joy Williams and was organized due to many stray dogs roaming the county, the numbers of feral cats at dumpsites, as well as the number of animals that were being found and picked up off the roadsides throughout the county.
Surry County is approximately 25 minutes west of Smithfield on Route 10.
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  Surry County, Virginia VA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Surry County is one of 95 counties in Virginia.
The county is in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk metro area.The estimated population in 2004 was 6,970.
This was an increase of 2.06% from the 2000 census.
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  Surry County, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surry County was formed from a portion of James City County in the Royal Colony of Virginia in 1652.
Surry County initially consisted of Lawne's Creek Parish and Southwark Parish (of the Church of England).
The county is bisected by State Route 31 and State Route 40, as well as its major artery, the historic path of State Route 10 which follows the general line of the south bank of the James River between Prince George County and Isle of Wight County.
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 Surry, New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The county of Surrey in England was known for manufacture of pleasure carriages called surreys, introduced to America in 1872.
Surry is an excellent geological area, containing quantities of quartz bearing veins of gold, silver, copper, and lead.
Surry's population increased by a total of 382 residents, going from 291 in 1950 to 673 residents in 2000.
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 Surry County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1850 the half of the county's remaining territory south of the Yadkin River became Yadkin County.
Surry County is a member of the regional Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments.
In the county the population was spread out with 23.60% under the age of 18, 7.90% from 18 to 24, 29.00% from 25 to 44, 24.10% from 45 to 64, and 15.40% who were 65 years of age or older.
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 Surry County Schools
Surry County, one of the most desirable places to live in North Carolina, is only minutes away from some of the most pristine vistas in the state.
Located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Surry County is a short distance from Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh.
The Surry County School System provides a quality education to approximately 8,900 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve on seventeen school campuses across the county.
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 Surry County   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The act erecting the county provided for the court to be held "constantly" at Gideon Wright's until the courthouse could be constructed.
Therefore, the act dividing the county specified that the court was to be held at the home of Richard Horn until a courthouse, prison and stocks could be erected at a central place.
In 1851, when Yadkin was formed from Surry, the act named and directed commissioners to locate the center of the county and fix the county seat.
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 Surry County, North Carolina NC, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Surry County is one of 100 counties in North Carolina.
The county is in the Mount Airy metro area.The estimated population in 2004 was 72,293.
This was an increase of 1.51% from the 2000 census.
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 Surry County Health and Nutrition Center - About Us
In February 1967, the Surry County Health Department was certified as an agency by Medicare.
Today, the Surry County Health and Nutrition Center has a WATCH (Worksite Approach To Controlling Health) program which is designed to improve health and prevent disease in participating local businesses and industries.
In 1935, the leading causes of death per 1,000 population in Surry County were Pneumonia, Nephritis, Tuberculosis, diseases of the heart, and cancer.
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 Surry County, North Carolina
Surry County was formed in 1771 from Rowan County, and was named for the county of Surry, England, birthplace of the incumbent Governor, William Tryon.
Wilkes County was split off in 1778 and later gave rise to Ashe, Alleghany, and Watauga.
Stokes County was formed from Surry in 1789 and in 1849 gave rise to Forsyth.
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 Services Offered to the Community
Surry County Health and Nutrition Center's In-Home Breastfeeding activity purpose is to encourage and educate mothers to breastfeed to improve the health of their children.
Surry County School's Teaching for Tomorrow activity encourages teenage mothers and fathers to complete their high, school education or the equivalent and introduces them to services and resources they may use.
Surry County Early Childhood Partnership's Child Care Resource and Referral provides child care referrals to families, works with child care providers through training and technical assistance to raise the quality of child care and provides information to the community about child care concerns.
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 Surry County, North Carolina Genealogical Records Information
County is bordered by Carroll County, VA (north), Patrick County, VA (northeast), Stokes County (east), Forsyth County (southeast), Yadkin County (south), Wilkes County (southwest), Alleghany County (northwest), Grayson County, VA (northwest).
Surry County Clerk of Superior Court has Court Records from 1770 and Probate Records from 1770 and is located at Courthouse, 114 W. Atkins Street, PO Box 345, Dobson, NC 27017; (336) 386-8131; Fax (336) 386-9879.
Surry County Register of Deeds has Land Records from 1771 and Marriage Records from 1778 and is located at PO Box 303, 114 W. Atkins Str, Dobson NC 27030; 336-401-8150, Fax: 336-401-8151.
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 Surry County, Virginia -- EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
The Surry County Office of Emergency Management provides management, coordination, training, and response to small or large emergencies that impact the citizens of the County.
Surry County is unique since we must plan and prepare for emergencies at the Surry Nuclear Power Station under the Radiological Emergency Response Plan.
Assistance with emergencies is provided by the three volunteer fire departments in the County: Surry, Dendron and Claremont Volunteer Fire Departments, the Surry Rescue Squad in addition to the Sheriff's Department, Social Services and other agencies as needed.
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 Surry County, North Carolina detailed profile - houses, real estate, agriculture, wages, work, ancestries, and more
County population in 2005: 72,601 (30% urban, 70% rural)
Surry County, North Carolina business data: stores, dealers, real estate agents, wholesalers, restaurants...
Tornadoes in this county have caused 3 injuries recorded between 1950 and 2004.
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 Surry SPCA
The SPCA was organized due to many stray dogs roaming the county, the numbers of feral cats at dumpsites, as well as the number of animals that were being found and picked up off the roadsides throughout the county.
The SPCA believes that in order to reduce the number of unwanted and stray animals in Surry County, they must assist in the effort to spay or neuter as many animals as possible.
The Surry SPCA works with the Animal Control Officer, Derrick Moore, to provide free spay/neuter assistance to Surry County residents.
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 History/Demographics on Alleghany County, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains
It is bordered by Grayson County, Va., on the north, and by North Carolina counties: Ashe on the west, Wilkes to the south and Surry to the east.
The county is principally drained by the New River, which flows along the western and northern border, and its main tributary, the Little River, which runs through the central portion of the county.
The county was settled in the late 1700's by hardworking pioneers mostly of English, German, Scottish, and Irish descent, some having migrated down the "Wagon Road" from Pennsylvania.
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 Combs &c. Families of Surry County, North Carolina
In 1777, Wilkes was created, and in 1789, when Stokes was created from Surry, the courthouse was temporarily at the house of Richard HORN.
In 1796, Surry regained land from Stokes Co. In 1850/1, Yadkin County was formed from Surry, and in 1869, Alleghany (org.
A number of our Combs of Surry and Wilkes Cos NC were Tories at the start of the Revolution (many of whom eventually switched sides), and law suits resulting from William RIDGE'S estate file are a Treasure Trove for far more than just Combs Researchers.
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 Virginia Business Magazine: Site Selection Guide, Surry County
This location puts Surry within an hour's drive of more than a million state residents and within a day's drive of half the population of the United States.
Surry has a progressive, pro-business Board of Supervisors, an active Industrial Development Authority and is served by several regional business development programs.
The county also has more than 30 miles of frontage on the James River, woodland teeming with wildlife, and is home to Chippokes Plantation State Park.
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 North Carolina ECHO   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The building is the oldest in Surry County to have been used as either a church or school.
The mission of the Surry County Historical Society is to preserve the history and culture of Surry County and interpret it to the community.
Purchased and restored by the Surry County Historical Society in 1973, the house is open to visitors the second Saturday and Sunday during April through September.
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 Surry County, Virginia detailed profile - houses, real estate, agriculture, wages, work, ancestries, and more
Surry County, Virginia business data: stores, dealers, real estate agents, wholesalers, restaurants...
Surry County historical area-adjusted tornado activity is above Virginia state average.
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries.
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 Surry County Used Cars for Sale - Surry Car Classifieds
With our large selection of quality Surry county used cars you are sure to find the perfect car, truck, or SUV at the right price.
Finding the perfect used car in Surry county has never been easier.
It is the buyer's responsibility to call or e-mail each seller to verify the information and pricing contained within the Surry county car classified ads.
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 Virginia Business Magazine: Site Selection Guide, Surry County
This location puts Surry within an hour's drive of more than a million state residents and within a day's drive of half the population of the United States.
Surry has a progressive, pro-business Board of Supervisors, an active Industrial Development Authority and is served by several regional business development programs.
The county also has more than 30 miles of frontage on the James River, woodland teeming with wildlife, and is home to Chippokes Plantation State Park.
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 Welcome to Surry County Virginia USA. Located on the James River, just a short ferry ride from Jamestown and ...
When Surry County celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2002, one of the committee’s goals was the printing of this booklet.
Surry County is unique in its founding, diversified in its culture, and continues as an agricultural-dependent county competing with nearby urban development.
Many of the county’s citizens can date their family history to the founding of Surry in 1652.
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 Miracle In Surry County Essence - Find Articles
Planting her feet to stay steady, Chaquita clears her throat twice, stifles a grin and, in a voice thick with the cadence of this country snatch of Virginia that birthed her, she delivers a halting schoolgirl's pitch.
He and his wife, high-school sweethearts, have educated their three children in the public schools in Surry County, an expanse of cotton, soybean, corn and peanut fields in Virginia's Tidewater region.
In Surry's particular twist on parental involvement, the very people who entrust their children and grandchildren to public schools frequently are the same folks who administer education, teach kids, volunteer and even drive school buses.
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 Surry County Virginia Records
Surry County was formed in 1652 from the James City County lands south of the James River.
The middle portion of Surry County was formed into Sussex County in 1753 and Surry reached its present bounds at that time.
Due to the loss of many of the court records of Dinwiddie, Charles City, and Prince George counties, the records of Surry County have taken on even greater importance because there was much movement in these early years over county lines and the James River.
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 Blow Citations in Surry County, Virginia
5/6 Dec 1663      Deed:  George Blow and wife Margery, of Surry County, to John Bynam, consideration and acreage not noted, all land “on the southwest side of a branch of the Black Water Swamp” being all the land on that side of the branch belonging to Blow, part of a dividend of 600a.
Smith in this county that he was a rogue and that he had killed a steere of his and he would prove it.”  Randall appeared to defend himself, and the court orders a jury trial.  The suit is dismissed and Blow is ordered to pay costs.  [Surry County Orders 1671-1691, p812]
Albemarle Parish had been formed in 1738 to serve the population south of the Blackwater.  When Sussex County was formed in1754 from southern Surry,  all of Albemarle Parish would be within Sussex County.  There are several BLOW mentions in the Parish Register for Albemarle.
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 Bynum Citations in Surry County, Virginia
Bynum’s land is the part of Blow’s patent that is south of the creek.  None of the later deeds for this tract give its acreage, but it appears to be roughly 200 acres from a plot of the patent.
of Nottoway parish in Isle of Wight to Samuel Tuder of Lawnes Creek Parish in Surry, 200a.
John Bynum, son of John, apparently has moved from Surry to Lunenburg (later Halifax) in the first several months of 1749.  He and John will also be on the tithables for 1750.  That this is the same person as the John Bynum of Surry is shown by several records.
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 Mark III Employee Benefits - Surry County Schools, NC | Home
Surry County Schools, NC offers all full-time employees a comprehensive Cafeteria Benefits program, arranged by Mark III Brokerage.
Surry County Schools is offering all full-time employees a comprehensive Cafeteria Benefits plan.
The Cafeteria Benefits plan is being arranged by Mark III Brokerage, an employee benefits firm that has worked in the public sector for the last 33 years.
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 Robert Clark of Surry County, Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Descendancy Chart of Robert Clark of Surry County, Virginia
A. SAMUEL CLARK was born at Surry, Virginia.
C. ELIZABETH CLARK was born at Surry, Virginia.
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 Wheeler's Reminiscences - Surry County, North Carolina
In 1775 this was a frontier County and was cousidered to extend with the territorial limits of North Carolina to the Mississippi.
William Lenoir, born 1751, died 1839; Secretary of the Committee of Safety for Surry County, just, alluded to; was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, on April 20, 1751, the youngest of a family on ten children.
He was the oldest magistrate in the County; a Trustee of the University; member of the Senate from 1781 to 1795, and for years Speaker of the Senate.
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