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This professional basketball player (ABA and NBA) attended Petersburg High School from 1970-1974, where his team went undefeated in his last 2 years of high school.
Who is Moses Malone?
This department focuses on trying to reduce the spread of certain diseases by investigating diseases reported by laboratories and providers, conducting outbreak investigations in various settings, and serving as the subject matter expert on infectious diseases for the district.
What is Epidemiology/Communicable Diseases?
This locality was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale and incorporated in 1615. It is the second oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States (Jamestown is the first).
What is Hopewell?
This place was established in 1866 near Richmond as the first mental health hospital to exclusively treat Blacks. It later relocated to Petersburg.
What is Central State Hospital?
This 1/4 mile dragstrip located in Dinwiddie County host several NHRA races every year.
What is Virginia Motor Sports Park?
This woman stars in Real Housewives of the Potomac and grew up in Spring Grove, VA (Sussex county).
Who is Karen Huger?
This department is dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by preventing the spread of disease through food, milk, water, sewage & shellfish. They regulate food programs/events, schools, tourist lodging, campgrounds, summer camps, marinas, daycares, swimming pools, and migrant labor camps.
What is Environmental Health?
Formed May 1, 1752 from Prince George County. This county was named for the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, who served from 1751-58.
What is Dinwiddie County?
This park and museum is the largest privately-owned Civil War historic site in the country. It spans over 424 acres and is located in today's Dinwiddie. It was here on April 2, 1865 that 14,000 Union soldiers under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant broke through Lee’s defensive line, ending the nine-month campaign for Petersburg and setting in motion the events leading to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House one week later.
What is Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier?
This community college sits within Prince George county limits and is named after one of the counties most notable planters and statesman.
What is Richard Bland Community College?
This man and his wife, Daphne, (Aunt Viv # 2) owned a studio here in Petersburg, VA and also played the dad on Sister Sister.
Who is Tim Reid?
This department is responsible for community engagement, health equity, and health literacy. They create the community health assessment and community health improvement planning for the district. They also disseminate public information, communications, social media, health education and policy focused on chronic disease prevention and mitigation, as well as trauma and mental health.
What is Population Health?
This place was created in 1652 and is connected to Virginia’s Historic Triangle (Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown) by the Jamestown/Scotland Ferry.
What is Surry?
Located in today's Hopewell, this place served as General Grant's headquarters towards the end of the Civil War, eight miles behind Union lines. This small port town was at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers, connected to Petersburg by railroad prior to the war.
What is City Point?
This place is Home to both the Women's Army Museum and the Quartermaster Museum.
What is Fort Gregg-Adams?
This actor attended Petersburg Burg High School and has acted in several tv shows and movies over the past 30+ years, with his longest stint on L.A. Law. He is also featured in our latest public health campaign video.
Who is Blair Underwood?
This department is dedicated to improving the health of pregnant women, infants and children (under the age of 5yrs) through better nutrition and access to health care.
What is WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)?
This county is home to the Virginia Diner and in the middle of what is called Peanut Country.
What is Sussex?
This camp is a residential experience for children ages 9+. Held at the Airfield Center in Wakefield, VA, a 285-acre property with climate-controlled lodges, a lake, and trained counselors. This five-day experience helps kids build a variety of skills and lasting memories.
What is 4-H Camp?
This was Virginia's first full-service movie studio, situated in Petersburg, sitting on 60 acres with a 14,850 square foot soundstage and post-production facility. It was sold in 2015.
What is New Millennium Studios?
This celebrity was born in Petersburg, has 8 studio albums, and has a mural of himself on the side of a building right down the street from here.
Who is Trey Songz?
This department coordinates Crater’s Emergency Management Program and Medical Reserve Corps volunteer program. They also manage Crater’s Health Alert Network (HAN) system, conducts training, exercises, drills to test the district’s emergency response capabilities., and provides avenues for employees to learn about personal readiness.
What is Emergency Preparedness & Response (EP&R)?
This place was officially recognized in 1781, but no one seems to know who it was really named for.
What is Greensville?
This was longest military event in the Civil War that lasted nine and a half months, cost 70,000 lives, caused the suffering of countless civilians, and empowered thousands of U.S. Colored Troops to fight for their freedom. It was here Gen. Ulysses S. Grant cut off all of Petersburg's supply lines ensuring the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865. Six days later, Lee surrendered.
What is the Siege of Petersburg?
Built in 1928 by the Knights of Pytheas, it began as a silent movie and Vaudeville show palace and is one of the staples in the Hopewell community for performing arts.
What is the Beacon Theatre?