Julie's Mecklenburg, Virginia Discoveries

Julie's Mecklenburg, Virginia Discoveries

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  • Cemetery and Church Project

    Here is an update on how I am listing cemetery and church information on my website. I’m listing all the Mecklenburg county cemeteries that I know of on this new cemetery page. I will notate whether the cemetery is in Munsey Moore’s cemetery books and if so, on which page number. I’ll also give links […]

    Julie Cabitto

    December 4, 2022
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  • Mecklenburg County’s Post Offices & Rural Place Names

    I normally send things as a post, but I couldn’t get this to format correctly for email, so I made a page instead. There are a number of columns, charts and maps. I began with a curiosity about the old place names. I wondered how many place names used to have a post office there? […]

    Julie Cabitto

    August 28, 2022
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  • Mecklenburg County had townships?

    1950 Census Enumeration map La Crosse on Google Maps (accessed 8 Jun 2022) current VDOT map My friend looked at the VDOT map of Mecklenburg and wondered what the difference was between the shaded town areas and the rectangles. We investigated and learned that the dotted rectangle areas are magisterial districts. Then my friend discovered […]

    Julie Cabitto

    June 9, 2022
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  • 29 defined areas of Mecklenburg County, Virginia

    I’ve spent a lot of time pondering ways to share and sort information by locality. I’ve had so many questions about places. For example, there is a church on highway 47, almost seven miles east of Chase City, that has a Chase City address. But there’s a VDOT sign near the church that says Drapersville. […]

    Julie Cabitto

    May 17, 2022
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  • Places in Mecklenburg: Past and Present

    Places in Mecklenburg: past and present Early Mecklenburg places were built up near rivers and large creeks. Later, places were built up around mineral springs and railroads. The population movement to larger cities during the depression and then again in World War II to find work, the addition of interstate highways, and the subsequent removal […]

    Julie Cabitto

    April 7, 2022
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  • The 22nd and 98th Virginia Regiments

    Gray area shows 98th Regiment. The non shaded area was the 22nd Regiment While researching my ancestors in Mecklenburg County, many of the records I have found pertaining to my family show that they were located in the the 98th Regiment. I have not been able to find a map that showed what the boundaries […]

    Julie Cabitto

    January 22, 2022
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