Comitatul Caroline, Virginia
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Comitatul Caroline, conform originalului Caroline County, este un comitat al statului — oficial, "Commonwealth" — Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 22,121. Its county seat is Bowling Green6. Caroline County is also home to Meadow Farms Stables, the birthplace of perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time, Secretariat, winner of the 1973 Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown.
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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.
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 (www.foundersofamerica.org).
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 Spotsylvania 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.
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Sunt două oraşe încorporate (în original incorporated town în Caroline County.
[modifică] Bowling Green
[modifică] Port Royal
[modifică] Oameni notabili
- William Woodford, officer in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.
- William Clark and his slave York, members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, were born in Caroline County and lived there until his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when he was 15.
- Henry Thompkins Anderson, (1812-1872), born in Caroline County, was a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergyman who produced his own translations of the New Testament and Codex Sinaiticus[1]
- George Armistead, born in New Market, commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore[1]
Richard and Mildred Loving challenged miscegenation laws in Caroline County, Virginia in 1958 when they married. The Supreme Court of the United States found anti-miscegenation statutes to be unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
