Bremo Bluff, Virginia

Bremo Bluff is an unincorporated community located on the northern bank of the James River in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.

[3] It is home to Bremo Power Station, which, at one point, generated 3 percent of the total electricity delivered by utility company Dominion Energy.

[3] She spent time at the Bremo Plantation,[6] where her family friend and owner, Dr. Cary Charles Cocke, had a special bed built to accommodate her needs because of rheumatoid arthritis.

Despite the risk of prosecution, Mary Anna Custis Lee and Dr. Cocke taught slaves to read, which was illegal at that time in the Confederate States of America, as they were opposed to slavery.

The railway along the James River is now owned by CSX Transportation and is connected by the Buckingham Branch Railroad to Dillwyn, Virginia, which provides the coal to feed the power station.

[4] On June 25, 2008, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board voted to require Dominion Resources to adapt the plant to utilize natural gas.

The estate once included the Bremo Slave Chapel, which has since been moved to the center of the Blemo Bluff village and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[1] The "Big Sandstone" vein of quartzite was discovered at Bremo Bluff by the Tellurium Mine,[14] which also had been a source of various precious metals since 1832.

Map of Virginia highlighting Fluvanna County