Moton Museum
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Moton Museum is a museum in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 129 m. Kyles Mountain stands 353 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Joan of Arc, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Lee's Retreat passes 1.5 miles off. 54 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.
The story
The Robert Russa Moton Museum (popularly known as the Moton Museum or Moton) is a historic site and museum in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It is located in the former Robert Russa Moton High School, considered "the student birthplace of America's Civil Rights Movement" for its initial student strike and ultimate role in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case desegregating public schools. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, and is now a museum dedicated to that history. In 2022 it was designated an affiliated area of Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park. The museum (and school) were named for African-American educator Robert Russa Moton. The former Moton School is a single-story brick Colonial Revival building, built in 1939 in response to activism and legal challenges from the local African-American community and legal challenges from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It houses six classrooms and an office arranged around a central auditorium. It had no cafeteria or restrooms for teachers. Built to handle 180 students, already by the 1940s it struggled to hold 450; the County, whose all-white board refused to appropriate funds for properly expanding the school facilities, built long temporary buildings to house the overflow. Covered with roofing material, they were called the "tar-paper shacks."
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Dates from 1939.
Wikidata Q7349431, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 129 m
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Lee's Retreat
54 named places within 25 miles
- Brock Commons: 0.6 mi
- Wheeler Mall: 0.6 mi
- Grove Street Park: 0.8 mi
- Riverside Park: 1.1 mi
- Wilck's Lake Park: 1.2 mi
- Leigh Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Woods Mountain: 12.2 mi
- Willis Mountain: 13.3 mi
- Baker Mountain: 15.1 mi
- Lyle Mountain: 17.3 mi
- Esther Atkinson Museum: 4.9 mi
- The Cumberland County Museum and Visitors Center: 16.5 mi
- Crewe Railroad Museum: 16.9 mi
- Housewright House: 19.9 mi
- Central High Museum: 20.3 mi
- Featherfin: 9.8 mi
- Featherfin: 9.8 mi
- Featherfin: 10.7 mi
- Cumberland State Forest: 16.2 mi
- Bear Creek Lake State Park: 17.8 mi
- Joan of Arc: 0.4 mi
- Camp Paradise Earthworks: 4.7 mi
- Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Memorial: 9.3 mi
- Pamplin Smoking Pipe & manufacturing Co., Inc.: 15.6 mi
- Clay Pipe Kiln: 15.7 mi
- Amelia Frightfest: 22.9 mi
- Confederate Cemetery: 23.0 mi
- Picketts Spring: 3.8 mi
- Goodwin Lake Swim Beach: 10.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Moton Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyles Mountain | NW 305° | 353 m | 22.6 mi |
| Piney Mountain | WNW 294° | 348 m | 24.4 mi |
| Gunner Mountain | NW 308° | 337 m | 22.3 mi |
| Bald Mountain | WNW 292° | 309 m | 24.8 mi |
| Willis Mountain | NNW 344° | 304 m | 13.3 mi |
| Lyle Mountain | WSW 249° | 241 m | 17.3 mi |
| Buffards Mountain | N 358° | 220 m | 20.0 mi |
| Woods Mountain | NW 306° | 218 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:51 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 19:59 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:19 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 39 | 46 | 56 | 65 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Farmville, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/179912934
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