Central Point, Virginia Explained

Official Name:Central Point, Virginia
Settlement Type:Unincorporated area
Mapsize:250px
Pushpin Map:Virginia#USA
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Virginia##Location in the contiguous United States
Pushpin Label:Central Point
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coordinates:37.9889°N -77.1322°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Caroline
Leader Title:Mayor
Established Title:Founded
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2010
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Postal Code Type:ZIP codes
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Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID
Pop Est As Of:2019

Central Point is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

History

Loving v. Virginia

Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter grew up in Central Point. He was white and she was Rappahannock and African American in ancestry, identifying as Indian (a classification the state disallowed under its binary system of "white" or "colored"). In this small community people shared their lives and work, and the couple fell in love. In 1958 they married in Washington, D.C., but returned here to live, thus violating state law against interracial marriages. They were arrested and charged, and forced to leave the state for 25 years to avoid being jailed. They moved to Washington, D.C., but challenged the law, as they wanted to go home. Their case reached the US Supreme Court, where in Loving v. Virginia (1967), the state's anti-miscegenation law was overturned for violating the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects due process and equal rights under the law.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Virginia's Central Point, "symbolic of Main Street USA,"' Washington Post, Carol Morello, February 10, 2012