Editing Bon Air, Virginia (section)

===Pre-resort settlement===

Prior to the advent of the 1877 resort in Bon Air, the area had some settlements. Brown Road and Belleau Drive each follow portions of the old [[Warwick Road]] that dates back to the 18th century [[Warwick, Virginia|Warwick]] plantation. The Bon Air area came to be known as Brown's Summit, probably named for the Brown family farm which was located near the southwest corner of present-day intersection of Jahnke Road and Brown Road.

In the first half of the 18th century, Anderson Edwards owned a large plantation on the current site of Bon Air. He sold parts of it to Nathaniel and James Duval in 1840. The Duvals' two portions of Anderson Edwards' land would eventually comprise large parts of modern-day Bon Air.<ref name="ccpl-discover.chesterfield.gov">{{cite web|url=http://ccpl-discover.chesterfield.gov/iii/cpro/ImageViewPage.external;jsessionid=F98E717BD4CE26160C0046752B45125B?lang=eng&sp=2&sp=1000681&sp=F&suite=def|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328215115/http://ccpl-discover.chesterfield.gov/iii/cpro/ImageViewPage.external;jsessionid=F98E717BD4CE26160C0046752B45125B?lang=eng&sp=2&sp=1000681&sp=F&suite=def|archive-date=2019-03-28|access-date=2023-08-07|title=Sandy Echo}}</ref>

The R&D railway came through the area around 1850, connecting Manchester to Robious and the Coal Mines.  An 1864 map<ref>"Published by D. Van Nostrand, New York", and entitled ''Map of Richmond, Virginia and Surrounding Country''</ref> shows a small cluster of buildings labeled "Pawhite Stop" on the "Railroad to Coal Mines" line near the site of historic Bon Air village. Another Civil War era map<ref>''Survey of a part of Chesterfield County, Virginia. Made under the direction of A.H. Campbell Capt. P.E. & Ch'f Top'l Dep't. by P.W.O. Koerner Lieut. P.E.; B.F. Blackford and C.E. Cassell Asst. Eng'rs. 1862 & 1863.''</ref> shows an area owned by "Cogbill" which is in the vicinity of the area near Buford Road near current day Bon Air Elementary School and Grand Summit subdivision. Early maps<ref>A map in the Virginia State Library - (Virginia Board of Public Works Record #000012006) shows the Richmond and Danville Railroad.</ref> also lists a "Powhite Station" 1/2 mile east of Robiou's Station.