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Historic Staunton River Foundation Set to Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Staunton River Bridge
Please join the Historic Staunton River Foundation and the Staunton River Battlefield State Park as they Commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Staunton River Bridge in Halifax and Charlotte Counties. An array of events and programs have been planned for this weekend: Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22. All events are free and open to the public and located at Clover Visitor Center at the Staunton River Battlefield State Park located at 1035 Fort Hill Trail, Randolph, Virginia (Halifax County Clover Visitor Center entrance).
PHOTOS: Group hosts alumni game
The L.I.F.E. Non-Profit organization hosted its Halifax County High School Alumni game on Saturday at the high school gym. It featured former players from Person, George Washington, Halifax County and Martinsville. George Washington walked away with the championship.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Week of June 19
It was 150 years ago when a group of faithful young boys and old men, numbering fewer than 500, took seriously a call to arms and valiantly defended “their” Staunton River Bridge in the only Civil War battle to be fought in Halifax County. A sesquicentennial commemoration of that battle will take place Saturday and Sunday at Staunton River Battlefield State Park in Randolph. It will be a return to the land of revered memory at the site of the Battle of Staunton River Bridge this weekend when thousands will come to the spot where the forefathers of many of them sent a superior Union force reeling in defeat when it attempted to destroy the vital railway bridge link between the Confederate force in and around Petersburg and its arms and bread basket to the south.
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