
FARMVILLE THE MAGAZINE
A Look into the Past — Farmville in 1899: ‘We have a great and growing town!’
A page one article in The Farmville Herald in 1899 began, “Farmville is the metropolis of Southside Virginia — the best built, best kept, best ...
A page one article in The Farmville Herald in 1899 began, “Farmville is the metropolis of Southside Virginia — the best built, best kept, best ...
Story and photos by Dr. Jim Jordan If you lived in Farmville in 1837, you wouldn’t have had to go to California to strike gold. ...
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan Photos courtesy of Bob Flippen Farmville had a dark and stormy night like no other January 23, 1940. The next ...
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan The Thanksgiving we celebrate today did not exist until 1621. That year the Pilgrims living in the little village of ...
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan Archeologists are good at finding buried things, and when things turn up where they aren’t supposed to be, well, we ...
Story by Dr. Jim Jordan The world of Farmville is currently upside down! The undoing of our social lives, economy, schools and our health by ...
There’s a tale told about a judge some 200 years ago in Farmville who happened to gaze out his courtroom window one warm April day. ...
When Farmville was founded in 1789, it would have been a most unusual family that did not own a number of dogs. Even two centuries ...
On Easter weekend 151 years ago, the Civil War was ending in Farmville. The battles at Saylers Creek and High Bridge had been fought, and ...
When people think of an archaeological dig, they usually picture a desert or a farmer’s field or someplace deep in the woods. But there is ...
Have you ever wondered why people in Farmville do rather unusual things the last few hours of December and first few hours of January? The ...
Once upon a time, a long time ago, an evergreen tree was brought into a house. We don’t know exactly where that house was, but ...
The Thanksgiving holiday we will celebrate in Farmville next week did not exist until the year 1621 when Pilgrims in a little village called Plymouth, ...
It is nearly Halloween and time for a scary story! Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, a very frightening event happened in ...
I teach archaeology at Longwood University, and one of my favorite courses is “Folklore of Virginia.” My students are interested in the legends about Farmville’s ...