Negro Run (Virginia)

Negro Run is a tributary of the York River[1] in Orange and Louisa counties, Virginia in the United States.[2]

At least one source doubts the historicity of the legend that the creek, formerly called Negrohead Run, was so named because a black person was beheaded there.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1904). The Gazetteer of Virginia. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 106.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Negro Run (Virginia)
  3. ↑ Scott, William Wallace (1974). A History of Orange County, Virginia: From Its Formation in 1734 (O.S.) to the End of Reconstruction in 1870 ... Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8063-0595-0.

Coordinates: 38°09′06″N 78°05′34″W / 38.15180°N 78.09278°W / 38.15180; -78.09278


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