Proffit, Virginia
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Proffit is an
Shortly after the
In 1974, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune covered the Proffit Area News. The paper notes Evergreen Baptist Church as part of the community, with Rev. Blakely presiding.[5] Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Earlysville was also noted as hosting the Thanksgiving Union Worship Service with Rev. L.S. Ward, pastor of Chatman Grove Baptist Church, Eastham delivering the sermon.[5] Other congregations joining this service were Evergreen at Proffit and Free Union of Stony Point.[5] The Union Christmas service was planned to be at Evergreen Baptist that year.
The historian, Claude Hall, author of Abel Parker Upshur, was born in Proffit, and procured three degrees from the University of Virginia.
References
- ^ a b "Proffit". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
- ^ Wilson, Paul (January 2, 1999). "NS Piedmont Division, Washington District". Retrieved November 16, 2008.
- ^ "Proffit Historic District Online Resource Archive". University of Virginia. 2000. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
Listed in the Virginia Landmark Register (1998) and the National Register of Historic Places (1999)...
- ^ John Hammond Moore (1976). Albemarle: Jefferson's County, 1727-1976. Albemarle County Historical Society. p. 425.
- ^ a b c Blue, Mrs. J.E. (December 5, 1974). "Proffit Area News". The Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune.
Further reading
- The Proffit Historic District Online Resource Archive: A website that provides extensive documentation of the village's history, with a timeline, historical and contemporary photographs, census data, a virtual tour, and oral histories.
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