• Virginia furniture is furniture that originates from the U.S. state of Virginia. Furniture was first produced in Virginia during the Colonial period and...
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    Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. is a furniture manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1902...
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  • Governor of Virginia. Stanley learned the furniture business from his father-in-law, John D. Bassett, who had founded and owned Bassett Furniture in Bassett...
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    a Virginia furniture factory. A store served the community from 1901 until the 1980s. Garnett, Mary Brumfield. Bright Leaf: An Account of a Virginia Farm...
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    Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items...
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  • Biggs Furniture, based in Richmond, Virginia, United States, was once a leading U.S. manufacturer of colonial reproduction furniture. The company flourished...
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  • Wolf Furniture was a furniture retailer operating eighteen showrooms throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia under the Wolf Furniture and Gardiner...
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    is an independent city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,720. The Bureau of Economic...
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    Browns. The city's main industry for a century was furniture construction, and today Virginia furniture makers still reside in the region. On the retail...
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    Altavista is an incorporated town in Campbell County, Virginia. The town is in the Lynchburg Metropolitan Area, and its population was 3,378 at the 2020...
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    Armstrong – former minority leader of the Virginia House of Delegates John D. Bassett – primary founder of Bassett Furniture Company Sherman Dillard – former American...
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  • Furniture is the fourth and most recent EP released by American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was recorded in January and February 2001, the same time...
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    Bob's Discount Furniture is an American furniture store chain headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut. The company opened its first store in 1991 in Newington...
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    Thomas B. Stanley (category Methodists from Virginia)
    in Bassett, Virginia. Anne was the daughter of John David Bassett (July 14, 1866 – February 26, 1965), a founder of Bassett Furniture, and Nancy Pocahontas...
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    is roughly halfway between Roanoke and Martinsville, Virginia, which likewise developed furniture manufacturing and textile industries early in the 20th...
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    by state law and can be produced only in the town of Smithfield. Virginia furniture and architecture are typical of American colonial architecture. Thomas...
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    PLANTS IN NEW YORK AND VIRGINIA". The New York Times. 2004-04-20. Engel, Clint (2008-01-10). "Ethan Allen to close 12 stores". Furniture Today. Archived from...
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    described as dimly-lit, crowded with furniture and paintings. Within it, the younger Stephens made a close-knit group. Virginia showed an early affinity for writing...
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  • Grand Home Furnishings (category Furniture retailers of the United States)
    regional chain of furniture stores headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, in the United States. Grand operates eighteen retail stores in Virginia, Tennessee, West...
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  • Storehouse Furniture was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1969, and it quickly became an early style leader in well-designed, well-priced contemporary...
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    19th-century Voodoo practitioner Thomas Day (1801–1861), born free in Virginia, furniture maker/craftsman in Caswell County, North Carolina Mary Seacole (1805–1881)...
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    exhibition on Colonial cabinetmaking in early Virginia, "Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia, 1710–1790." Another first, and one that received...
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  • England, Inc. (England Furniture Incorporated) is an American manufacturer of upholstered furniture. They are based in New Tazewell, Tennessee, and were...
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    business as Herman Miller, is an American company that produces office furniture, equipment, and home furnishings. Its best known designs include the Aeron...
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    during prohibition. Virginia also names a state Poet Laureate, currently Ron Smith, whose term began on July 1, 2014. Virginia furniture and architecture...
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    John D. Bassett (category American furniture designers)
    Bassett Furniture Company in 1902. During the late 1960s, the Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc., was the largest manufacturer of wooden furniture in the...
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    Welcome to Smith's Antiques - Smith's Antiques | Sumerduck, Virginia, american oak, antique, furniture, tiger oak". smithsantiques.net. Retrieved September 15...
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    Tappahannock is the oldest town in Essex County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,375 at the 2010 census, up from 2,068 at the 2000 census...
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    Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory (category Defunct furniture manufacturers)
    for the purpose of manufacturing small pieces of furniture called "novelty" pieces in the furniture trade. Associated with the main factory are the contributing...
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    Southside, or Southside Virginia, has traditionally referred to the portion of the state south of the James River, the geographic feature from which the...
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