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18-638: (Redirected from Bell Grove ) Belle Grove or Bell Grove may refer to: Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Virginia [ edit ] Belle Grove, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, a 1790s Federal-style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall family Belle Grove (Delaplane, Virginia) , a 19th-century Federal-style house and farm Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia) , an 18th-century Federal-style plantation house Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park , encompassing

36-555: A delegate again from 1845 to 1848. On April 13, 1838, he introduced a bill to charter the Richmond and Danville Railroad (R&D) with an impassioned speech. No action was taken at that time, and he was to fight tirelessly for creation of the R&;D in the Virginia legislature for almost a decade. It was not until 1845 that petitions were again introduced. Finally, after a struggle of nine years,

54-410: A growing slave labor force. It was a county without towns or a commercial center. Plantation villages on the major river thoroughfares were the only centers of trade, until the emergence of Danville . (Clement 23)" The city of Danville's history up through the antebellum period overall is an expression of the relationship between the town and the planters who influenced its development. According to

72-716: A rival in the transportation business. A lawyer by profession, Tunstall was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1832. He was a member of the Railroad Convention that met at Danville , October 5, 1835, and at Richmond June 11, 1836. Tunstall served in the Virginia General Assembly in both houses. He was a delegate in the House of Delegates from 1836 to 1841, a senator in the State Senate in 1841 and 1842, and

90-540: A town. Plantation settlements along the rivers, particularly at ferrying points, became commercial centers. The most important for early Pittsylvania was that of Sam Pannill, a Scots-Irishman, who at the end of the eighteenth century, while still a young man, set up a plantation town at Green Hill on the north side of the Staunton River in Campbell County. (Clement 15) "Its economy was tobacco-dominated and reliant on

108-720: A two-room school, in 1918 the Whitmell Farm-Life School became the first rural consolidated school in Pittsylvania County. In 1964, Whitmell High School and Brosville High School were merged to form Tunstall High School, which is located in Dry Fork, Virginia , in the center of the Tunstall magisterial district on Tunstall High Road. Two Virginia Historical Markers were established relating to Whitmell P. Tunstall: Pittsylvania County, Virginia Pittsylvania County

126-584: Is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia . At the 2020 census , the population was 60,501. The county seat is Chatham . Pittsylvania County is included in the Danville , VA Micropolitan Statistical Area . The largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the United States (7th largest in the world) is located in Pittsylvania County. (see Uranium mining in Virginia .) Originally "Pittsylvania"

144-477: The 2010 United States Census , there are 60,949 people, and 26,687 households in the county. The population density was 65.5 people per square mile (25.3 people/km ). There were 31,656 housing units at an average density of 32 units per square mile (12 units/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 76.20% White , 21.50% Black or African American , 0.30% Native American , 0.50% Asian , 0.37% from other races , and 1.40% from two or more races. 2.70% of

162-585: The Banister River running eastward through the center, and is drained on the south by the Dan River , flowing eastward. The county is divided into seven districts: In Virginia: In North Carolina: Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. According to

180-542: The United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 978 square miles (2,530 km ), of which 969 square miles (2,510 km ) is land and 9 square miles (23 km ) (0.9%) is water. It is the largest county in Virginia by land area and second-largest by total area. The county is bounded on the north by the Roanoke River (this stretch of the river is known as the Staunton River ), bisected by

198-518: The London Borough of Bexley Other uses [ edit ] Battle of Belle Grove (1864), American Civil War battle in the Virginia counties of Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren USS Belle Grove (LSD-2) , a 1943 Ashland -class dock landing ship Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Belle Grove . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

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216-631: The above since 2002 Belle Grove Plantation (Port Conway, Virginia) , birthplace of President James Madison Louisiana [ edit ] Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana) , 19th-century plantation house Belle Grove (Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana) , 19th-century plantation house Other places [ edit ] Belle Grove Historic District , Fort Smith, Arkansas Belle Grove Wildlife Management Area , Maryland Bell Grove, Missouri United Kingdom [ edit ] Belle Grove, London (also Bell Grove or Bellegrove), archaic placename, today part of Welling , in

234-438: The charter was granted on March 9, 1847. Records reveal Tunstall's dedication to the cause in this statement made to a friend, "Tis the proudest day of my life, and I think I may now say that I have not lived in vain." Whitmell Pugh Tunstall died on February 19, 1854, of typhoid fever, 2 years before the railroad he had long sought was completed. Pittsylvania County has had several schools named in his honor. Founded in 1878 as

252-435: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belle_Grove&oldid=1199219660 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Whitmell P. Tunstall Whitmell Pugh Tunstall

270-454: The period. In 1777 the western part of Pittsylvania County was partitioned off to became Patrick Henry County . Maud Clement's History of Pittsylvania County notes the following: "Despite the settlers' intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from plantation settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by

288-431: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 26,687 households, out of which 30.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.93. The median income for a household in the county was $ 44,356. The per capita income for the county was $ 23,597. About 12.60% of the population were below the poverty line . Pittsylvania County

306-475: Was a name suggested for an unrealized British colony to be located primarily in what is now West Virginia . Pittsylvania County would not have been within this proposed colony, which subsequently was named Vandalia . Pittsylvania County was formed in 1767 with territory annexed from Halifax County . It was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768, and who opposed some harsh colonial policies of

324-618: Was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia . He was educated at Danville Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . A railroad was a revolutionary idea in the 1830s, which had the confidence of very few people at the time. However, the greatest opposition in the southern portion of Virginia came from those along the Roanoke River who ran the Roanoke Navigation Company and its system of canals . They feared

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