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“In the past, we have been the community of least resistance,” said Renada Harris, who grew up in Brown Grove. She is related to most members of the Brown Grove Preservation Group, which formed over concerns about a proposed Wegmans distribution center.
In December 2019, then-Gov. Ralph Northam and Wegmans Food Market, Inc. announced plans to construct a 1.1 million-square-foot regional distribution facility in Hanover County. The facility's 219-acre site is situated in the small, rural, Black community of Brown Grove, founded in the Reconstruction era by formerly enslaved men and women on land owned by its 19th century community matriarch Caroline Morris.