Clover, Virginia
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursBlack Walnut, a historic plantation house and farm located near Clover, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Geography
Clover is in northeastern Halifax County, north of U.S. Route 360. It is 14 miles (23 km) northeast of South Boston and 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Keysville via US 360.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Clover CDP has a total area of 7.0 square miles (18.2 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.11%, is water. It is drained by tributaries of the Roanoke River.
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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
- Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951), source of the HeLa cell line, 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
- Henry E. Garrett (1894-1973), prominent psychologist at Columbia and UVa, and supporter of racial segregation
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