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Midlothian, Virginia
Located in Chesterfield County
The Midlothian community is in the northwestern part of Chesterfield County, Virginia, a few miles west of Richmond, Va., USA. It includes the unincorporated Village of Midlothian that has old and new churches, fine and friendly restaurants, unique shopping, a modern post office, a volunteer fire department, schools, and older homes, all surrounded by the typical new residential development found in many popular suburban communities across the country.
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There’s a lot new things going on in our historic community. A new historic park for walking and picnics near the village core was started in 2001. In May 2000, John Tyler Community College opened a permanent Midlothian campus near the village. Our YMCA is also new a point of community pride. The construction of Route 288 to the west offers to greatly improve transportation in and around the area, but also will put considerable growth pressure on our community as well. Many of the new neighborhoods now under construction (such as the Grove) as well commercial development are thoughtful, careful and appropriate thanks to cooperation with local citizen groups.
One reason for our community’s pride is our long history. Midlothian started as a settlement of coal miners in the 1700s. Coal was the basis of the Midlothian area until the late 1800s when mining ended. Later attempts to reopen the mines were unsuccessful, but thanks to the access of rail to Richmond, the village became a commuter town.
For years it was a friendly little southern community in the quiet Virginia countryside. Much of that charm remains intact today on the back roads of the village. Large-scale residential growth started threatening Midlothian in the 1970s, and soon both long-established citizens and new residents were asking if something to manage the sprawl couldn’t be done.
Despite severe pressures, the Village of Midlothian had retained its sense of place, unlike too many suburban towns in the U.S. that have been "lost" under corporate concrete, poorly-planned asphalt and franchise-business plastic.
Midlothian remains one of the region’s fastest growing communities. Residents in the suburban neighborhoods such as Queensmill, Salisbury, Four Seasons, Walton Park, and Otterdale, as well as Old Buckingham Station Apartments, have teamed with long time citizens with the area to protect and enhance their community. While the Village of Midlothian Volunteer Coalition is the primary coordinating group working in Midlothian on community issues such as design, proper scale of development, communications and implementation of Midlothian’s streetscape plan, there are many active groups and individuals in the area who have done much to make the area a good place to live.
Explore this web site to learn more about the Village of Midlothian, or, better yet, visit our shops, restaurants, festivals, churches, and neighborhoods.
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