Things To Do in Carrsville, Virginia

Ugabug's is a unique shop featuring antiques, collectibles, art, crafts, gifts, jewelry and food! For the tummy, we have our award winning BBQ! We also have gourmet chicken salad sandwiches, Nathan's hot dogs and more! Art lovers ... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. Two miles south stood the Nansemond County training School, he first high school in the county for African American students. It was constructed in 1924 with $5,000 contributed by African American families, $11,500 in ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Nearby along the eastern bank of the Blackwater River once existed the community of South Quay, also sometimes called South Key, Old Quay, or Old South Quay. Founded by 1657, South Quay by 1701 had become the site of ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted ... More on HMDB

Our Mission: To protect the health, safety and welfare of the people who live, work and visit the City of Franklin by providing ... More on Franklinva.com

Inscription. Incorporated as a town in 1876, Franklin began as a Southampton County village in the 1830s. In October, 1862, during the Civil War, Union gunboats on the Blackwater River shelled the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Three and a half miles southwest, at Monroe, Major-General William Mahone was born, December 1, 1826. He served brilliantly in the Confederate army throughout the war, and won the title, "Hero of the Crater, " at Petersburg, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The war seemed far from Franklin when Union forces captured Roanoke Island and the North Carolina Sounds in February 1862. In May, however, when they occupied Norfolk and Suffolk to control both coastal Virginia and North ... More on HMDB

Inscription. To protect Richmond from a Union attack from Suffolk, Confederate authorities fortified the Blackwater River in 1862. You are standing on the Blackwater Line. The intermittent earthworks stretched fifty miles from north ... More on HMDB