Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Caroline County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History Caroline County was established in 1728 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties. It was named for Caroline of Ansbach, the wife of King George II of Great Britain. During the Colonial Period, Caroline County was the birthplace of Thoroughbred Racing in North America. Arabian horses were imported from England to provide the basis for American breeding stock. Caroline County was also the home of the famous 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat.  Patriot Edmund Pendleton played a large role in the Virginia Resolution for Independence (1775) and Caroline native, John Penn, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from North Carolina. Explorers, William Clark and his slave, York, were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803); both were born near what is now Ladysmith, Virginia in Caroline.  During the Civil War, Confederate troops under General George E. Pickett fought Union troops near Milford in 1864. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died at Guinea Station in Caroline County after being accidentally shot by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He survived the gun shot wound but died later from infection due to the unsterile conditions of medical treatments of that era. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was shot by federal troops in Caroline County. (source: wikipedia.org) INCORPORATED TOWNS:  Bowling Green (county seat) - Port Royal Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Families / Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Jan 2012 Andrew Broaddus Biography Cary W. Jones Biography J. Alexander Rodefer Biography William H. Tappey Biography 1866 Marriages  Dec 2011 Colonel John B. Cary Biography Sep 2011 Robert Garlick Hill Kean Biography Jun. 2011 John Penn Biography Edmund Pendleton Biography Thomas Miller Biography James Hoge Tyler Mar. 2011 Bios: Clark Feb: 2011: Hammond Family Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Stafford County -- King George County -- Essex County Spotsylvania County -- King and Queen County Hanover County -- King William County Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.