Clover, Virginia

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|subdivision_name2 = Halifax

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|area_total_km2 = 18.18

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|population_as_of = 2010

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|population_total = 438

|population_density_km2 = 24.1

|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 24534

|area_code = 434

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Clover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in rural Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 438.{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US5117632| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Clover CDP, Virginia| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| accessdate=March 21, 2018| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213112921/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US5117632| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}} Clover was an incorporated town from 1895 until 1998, when it reverted to unincorporated status. Clover was the site of a Rosenwald school,{{cite web | title = Rosenwald Schools of Virginia | publisher = Virginia#USA Center for Digital History | url = http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/schools/school.php?id=205 | accessdate = February 27, 2016 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160306041111/http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/schools/school.php?id=205 | archivedate = March 6, 2016 }} built circa 1921 or 1922, with a three-teacher facility on a two-acre campus.

Black Walnut, a historic plantation house and farm located near Clover, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

Geography

Clover is in northeastern Halifax County, north of U.S. Route 360. It is {{convert|14|mi}} northeast of South Boston and {{convert|24|mi}} southwest of Keysville via US 360.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Clover CDP has a total area of {{convert|18.2|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.02|sqkm|order=flip|2}}, or 0.11%, is water. It is drained by tributaries of the Roanoke River.

Demographics

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2010{{Cite web|title= 2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Virginia|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-48.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 2020

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Clover was first listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. Census.

Notable people

J. Steven Griles (b. 1947), former United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior (2001–04) in the George W. Bush administration, coal lobbyist, implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501607.html "Prison Time Is Urged for Griles"], The Washington Post, June 16, 2007
Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951), source of the HeLa cell line,{{cite news |first=Van |last=Smith |title=The Life, Death, and Life After Death of Henrietta Lacks, Unwitting Heroine of Modern Medical Science. |url=http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3426 |work=Baltimore City Paper |date=April 17, 2002 |accessdate=2010-01-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814160109/http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3426 |archivedate=August 14, 2004 }} subject of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (film) (2017)
Willie Lanier (b. 1945), Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker for Kansas City Chiefs
Luther Hilton Foster (1888-1949), President of Virginia Normal and Industrial School, now Virginia State University, near Petersburg[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/JNHv34n4p489?journalCode=jnh Personal: Luther Hilton Foster], The Journal of Negro History: Vol 34, No 4, October 1949, page 489. Verified December 19, 2021.
Henry E. Garrett (1894-1973), prominent psychologist at Columbia and UVa, and supporter of racial segregation

References

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[https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/012-5041_Rosenwald_Schools_2004_NRHP_MPD_FINAL.pdf National Register of Historic Places Multiple-Property Documentation Form, Rosenwald Schools], Virginia Department of Historic Resources, page 67 (pdf page 142). Retrieved December 19, 2021.

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{{Cite GNIS|1464998|Clover|accessdate=February 9, 2006}}

Category:Census-designated places in Halifax County, Virginia

Category:Former municipalities in Virginia

Category:Unincorporated communities in Virginia

Category:Census-designated places in Virginia

Category:Populated places disestablished in 1998