Patrick County, Virginia

Images of America: Virginia

by Thomas D. Perry

From 1790 until today, continuity in Patrick County, Virginia, has involved a rural agricultural life based on family and religion. In the history of the county named for Patrick Henry, the population has only doubled since the Civil War, when men such as cavalryman James Ewell Brown aJeba Stuart hailed from the county.

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2007

About the author

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and grew up just over the border in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, where Civil War General J. E. B. Stuart, Reverend Bob Childress "The Man Who Moved A Mountain," and Orleana Hawks Puckett, the famous mid-wife on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Perry has written or published over thirty books on regional history focusing on the Civil War. His latest book Beyond Mayberry: A Memoirs of Andy Griffith and Mount Airy North Carolina.