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Amelia County

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Amelia County

County in south-central Virginia, USA; area 925 sq km/357 sq mi; population (1990) 8,800. Its administrative headquarters is Amelia Courthouse. Situated in an area of rolling hills, it is rural, with no large towns. Sailor's (or Sayler's) Creek Battlefield, in its southwest corner, is the site of an American Civil War battle (6 April 1865) that immediately preceded the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, 53 km/33 mi to the west.



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1800) when another slave named Sancho, a riverman from nearby Amelia County, fomented what has come to be known as the Easter Plot of 1802, a vast conspiracy involving several counties in Virginia and North Carolina.
Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 by Davis, Mary Kemp / African American Review
The company will install approximately 21,000 linear feet of four inch through 16 inch diameter water mains in Amelia County, including approximately 75 new water service connections, 35 fire hydrants, 5 road/railway borings, and three new well pumps and related piping.
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