Get to Know Roxshire

Roxshire is a residential community tucked away in the city of Midlothian, Virginia. The majority of homes in this community are 2-story,colonial or colonial style single-family homes. These homes offer 3 to 6 bedrooms and 1 to 5 bathrooms, and average about 3,500 sf in living space.

Schools: Robious Elementary, Robious Middle, James River High

Being an older, established neighborhood, we love that the houses aren't right on top of each other, like in so many new developments. We also liked the densely wooded lots (although this is a bit of a pain in fall), which give you more privacy.

A happy home owner

The ruins of the Grove Shaft from the Midlothian coal mines

Following is an excerpt from Wikipedia

Midlothian, Virginia (/mɪdˈloʊθiən/) is an unincorporated town in Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. Founded over 300 years ago as a coal town, it is now a suburban community located west of Richmond, Virginia and south of the James River in the Greater Richmond Region.

It was named for the early 18th-century coal mining enterprises of the Wooldridge brothers. They called their new venture the Mid-Lothian Mining and Manufacturing Company. Midlothian is the site of the first commercially mined coal in the Colony of Virginia and in what became the United States.

By the early 18th century, several mines were being developed by French Huguenots and others. The mine owners began to export the commodity from the region in the 1730s. Midlothian-area coal heated the U.S. White House for President Thomas Jefferson. The transportation needs of coal shipping stimulated construction of an early toll road, the Manchester Turnpike in 1807; and the Chesterfield Railroad, the state's first in 1831; each to travel the 13 miles (21 km) from the mining community to the port of Manchester, just below the fall line of the James River.

In the early 1850s, the Richmond and Danville Railroad built Coalfield Station near the mines. In the 1920s, the old turnpike was renamed the Midlothian Turnpike and became part of the new east-west U.S. Route 60. A few decades later, residential neighborhoods were developed near Midlothian, including the large Salisbury community and the Brandermill planned development sited on Swift Creek Reservoir. In the 21st century, Midlothian extends many miles beyond the original village area. State Route 288 connects the community with Interstate 64 and the State Route 76 toll road, and Interstate 95 in the Richmond metropolitan area's southwestern quadrant.