<Tr> <Th> Area code </Th> <Td> 804 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.midlothianva.org </Td> </Tr> <P> Midlothian, Virginia (/ mɪdˈloʊθiən /) is an unincorporated area 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 . </P> <P> 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, and forced enslaved people to do the deadly work of digging underground . Midlothian is the site of the first commercially - mined coal in the Colony of Virginia and in what became the United States . </P>

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