Caroline County, Virginia
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Virginia. Our goal is to help
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| <>Caroline County was
established in 1728 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William
counties. It was named for Caroline of Ansbach, the wife of King George
II of Great Britain. During the Colonial Period, Caroline County was
the birthplace of Thoroughbred Racing in North America. Arabian horses
were imported from England to provide the basis for American breeding
stock. Caroline County was also the home of the famous 1973 Triple
Crown winner Secretariat.
<>Patriot Edmund Pendleton played a large role in the
Virginia Resolution for Independence (1775) and Caroline native, John
Penn, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate
from North Carolina. Explorers, William Clark and his slave, York, were
members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803); both were born near
what is now Ladysmith, Virginia in Caroline.
During the Civil War,
Confederate troops under General George E.
Pickett fought Union troops near Milford
in 1864. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died at Guinea Station
in Caroline County after being accidentally shot by his own troops at
the Battle of Chancellorsville. He survived the gun shot wound but died
later from infection due to the unsterile conditions of medical
treatments of that era. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was shot by
federal troops in Caroline County. |
| INCORPORATED TOWNS: Bowling
Green - Port Royal NOTABLE PEOPLE Henry Thompkins Anderson - George Armistead - Reuben Chapman - William Clark - Edmund Pendleton - William Woodford |
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COUNTY VIRGINIA - Official Site - Not a Genealogy Site |
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