John Heth
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Captain John Heth was a Virginian naval officer and businessman in the coal mining industry.
Portrait by Thomas Sully
Black Heath
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Black Heath was a house and coal mine located near the present day Midlothian area of Chesterfield County, Virginia. The Black Heath coal mining enterprises were operated intermittently from the early
John Heth
…Captain John Heth (1798 – April 30, 1842) was a Virginian naval officer and businessman in the coal mining industry. Heth was born in 1798 at Black Heath estate in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He was the son of Colonel Henry "Harry" Heth, who had fought in the American Revolutionary War and established…
Black Heath house in disrepair, c. 1890–1915