A Guide to the Powhatan County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1782-1912 Powhatan County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1782-1912
1188880-1188881, 1199408-1199410
A Collection in the Library of Virginia
Barcode numbers: 1188880-1188881, 1199408-1199410
Library of Virginia
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Powhatan County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1782-1912. Local Government Records Collection, Powhatan County Court Records.
The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfer of court papers from Powhatan County.
Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late sixteenth
and early years of the seventeenth century. It was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County
was added in 1850.