Friday, February 9, 2007

Cyclone hits Dinwiddie County, Virginia in 1891

Tobacco Planters Suffer Severely Through the Effects of Hail
The Washington Post (1877-1954) - Washington, D.C.
Aug 18, 1891

Dinwiddie country, along the line of the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, in the vicinty of Ream's Station, and also along the line of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, in the neighborhood of Church Road Station. was visited Saturday afternoon by a most violent wind and hail storm.

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