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Midlothian, VA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Midlothian  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Midlothian Home page. The Midlothian Home page provides as much information as possible on Midlothian. Knowing Midlothian’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Midlothian’s Home page, you will also find Midlothian’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Midlothian has a population of 18054. 46.6% of Midlothian’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.4 are female. 57.4% of Midlothian is married and 77.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $333,731, and the average rent is $1,466. Household median income in Midlothian is $94,984, and the individual median income is $50,342. Midlothian’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.6%), Black(10.2%), Asian(8.4%), Multiple(3.2%), Hispanic(2.7%), Other(0.7%).


Midlothian ( mid-LOH-thee-ən) is an unincorporated area in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Settled as a coal town, Midlothian village experienced suburbanization effects and is now part of the western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region. Because of its unincorporated status, Midlothian has no formal government, and the name is used to represent the original small Village of Midlothian and a vast expanse of Chesterfield County in the northwest portion of Southside Richmond served by the Midlothian post office. The Village of Midlothian was named for the early 18th-century coal mining enterprises of the Wooldridge family.


Incorporated in 1836, their Mid-Lothian Mining and Manufacturing Company employed free and enslaved people to do the deadly work of digging underground. Midlothian is the site of the first commercially-mined coal in the Colony of Virginia and North America.By the early 18th century, several mines were being developed in Chesterfield County by French Huguenots and others.


The mine owners began to export the commodity from the region in the 1730s. Midlothian-area coal from Harry Heth's Black Heath mines heated the U.S. White House for President Thomas Jefferson. The transportation needs of coal shipping stimulated construction of a paved toll road (Virginia's first), the Manchester Turnpike in 1807; and the Chesterfield Railroad, Virginia's first, in 1831; each traveled the 13 miles (21 km) from the mining community to the port of Manchester, just below the Fall Line of the James River.


In 1850, the Richmond and Danville Railroad built Coalfield Station, a freight and later passenger depot, near the mines. In the 1920s, the old turnpike was straightened and became part of the new east-west U.S. Route 60. A few decades later, residential neighborhoods were developed in Southside Richmond near Midlothian, including the large Salisbury community and the Brandermill planned development sited on Swift Creek Reservoir.


In the 21st century, Midlothian extends many miles beyond the original village area. State Route 288 connects the community with Interstate 64 and the State Route 76 "Powhite Parkway" toll road, and Interstate 95 in the Richmond metropolitan area's southwestern quadrant.


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