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Robert Dinwiddie
Image 1. Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie, unknown artist, c. 1760-1765, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1640
Kingston, Dinwiddie Co., Va.
Image 2. "First the home of the Walkers. Later the home of Gen. Wm. H. Broadnax, one of our nationally known Dinwiddie citizens." Fraser, Mamie et al. Kingston, Dinwiddie Co., Va. N.p., 1900. Print.
Dr. Perkins Home
Image 3. Fraser, Mamie et al. The Dr. Perkins Home, Dinwiddie County. N.p., 1900. Print.
Winona, Powell House
Image 4. Virginia Historical Inventory Project, Virginia Conservation Commission. Division of History., and United States. Works Progress Administration. Winona, Powell House, Dinwiddie Co. N.p., 1900. Print.
Dinwiddie Tobacco Field
Image 5. Two men and a mule, pulling a tobacco sled, are seen in the middle of a field of tobacco plants. Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, and Library of Virginia. Picture Collection. Tobacco, Dinwiddie County. N.p., 1954. Print.
Alfred W. Harris
Image 6. Alfred W. Harris. Credit: Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895, E.185.93 .V8 J19 1946
Petersburg, Va. Blandford Church
Image 7. Source: Petersburg, Virginia. Blandford Church, photograph by Mathew Brady or Levin C. Handy, ca. 1861–1865. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints Collection, Library of Congress.
Blandford Church Tiffany Window
Image 8. One of the Tiffany stained-glass windows at Blandford Church. Photo by Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kingston pen and ink
Image 9. Kingston -- Dinwiddie Co. -- Built 18th. Farrington, Dorothea Ann. Source: Library of Virginia
Kingston HABS
Image 10. Kingston, State Route 619 vicinity, Dinwiddie County, VA Photos from Survey HABS VA-384. Source: Library of Congress
Winona House
Image 11. Winona, Powell house, Dinwiddie Co. Source: Virginia Historical Inventory Project
Winona Powell House 2
Image 12. Virginia Historical Inventory Project. Winona, Powell House, Dinwiddie Co. N.p., 1900. Print.
Dinwiddie Corn
Image 13. Dinwiddie Corn. Library of Virginia, Visual Studies, Hopewell UMWA Collection.
Sysonby
Image 14. Sysonby - Front Elevation. John Granderson "Jack" Zehmer "The Early Domestic Architecture of Dinwiddie County, Virginia" May 1970.
Siege of Petersburg
Image 15. "United States troops entering Petersburg, Virginia, April 3, 1865, artist impression, detail," House Divided.
pine trees
Image 16. Virginia New York World’s Fair Commission. Planted Loblolly Pine in Dinwiddie County. 1939. Print.
old house
Image 17. Virginia New York World’s Fair Commission. Wales, in Dinwiddie County, Built about 1773. 1939. Print.
Wales House
Image 18. Wales, Petersburg, VA. Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
Wales house
Image 19. Wales (Dinwiddie County, Va.) Source: Library of Virginia, WPA Historic Houses Drawings Digital Collection.

Wales Plantation Collection

We have received 53 additional historical images from 1974, 1995, and 2009 courtesy of the Virginia Department of Historical Resources.

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James Greenway
Image 20. Portrait of Dr. James Greenway [c. 1720-1795], c. 1780. JOHN DURAND American. Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary 1937.009
Mrs. James Greenway
Image 21. Portrait of Mrs. James Greenway, née Martha Dixon [1727-1810], c. 1780. JOHN DURAND American. Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary 1937.010
Kingston
Image 22. Kingston. Photo courtesy of Joel Abernathy
Kingston
Image 23. Kingston. Photo courtesy of Joel Abernathy
John Bannister (1734-1788)
Image 24. John Bannister (1734-1788). Frederick Horner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Peterson Goodwyn (1745-1818)
Image 25. Peterson Goodwyn (1745-1818). Find a Grave, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Evelyn Cameron (1847-1927)
Image 26. William Evelyn Cameron (1847-1927). Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gen. William Mahone (1826-1895)
Image 27. Gen. William Mahone (1826-1895). Publisher: Garrett & Massie, Publishers (19th c.). Photographer unknown. Public domain.
Patrick Henry Drewry (1875-1947)
Image 28. Patrick Henry Drewry (1875-1947). Public domain, via Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Francis Rives Lassiter (1866-1909)
Image 29. Francis Rives Lassiter (1866-1909) Public domain, via Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. About this object
Windgard (Martins) House, Dinwiddie County, VA
Image 30. Windgard (Martins) House, Dinwiddie County, VA c.1936 • View showing chimney and side profile.
Source: Library of Virginia, WPA Historic Houses Drawings Digital Collection`
Windgard (Martins) House, Dinwiddie County, VA
Image 31. Windgard (Martins) House, Dinwiddie County c. 1936, Dinwiddie County, VA • View showing front exterior and surrounding farm land.
Source: Library of Virginia, WPA Historic Houses Drawings Digital Collection`

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