Turnpike (built in 1850) Southside Speedway, 12800 Genito Road Chesterfield Railroad, portion of roadbed (visible off Sturbridge Drive south of Midlothian Turnpike behind Pocono Green Shopping Center) Chesterfield Museum An exhibit on local mining history in the Chesterfield Museum includes a length of iron rail from the incline railway, the first in Virginia. In popular culture Midlothian is the inspiration for the fictional town of Middlesex, Virginia in the cult film Donnie Darko. "It’s meant to be a stylized, satirical, comic book, fantasyland version of what I remember Midlothian, Virginia to be, I guess," filmmaker Richard Kelly has explained. See also Aetna Hill (Midlothian, Virginia house) References Further reading James, George Watson (1967), "Gravity plus mules equal "steam" ", Virginia Record, Richmond, VA. (Apr. 1967 issue v. 89, no.4, p. 8) Lutz, Frank E.. (1954) Chesterfield, An Old Virginia County, William Byrd Press, Inc., Richmond, Virginia. O’Dell, Jeffrey M. (1983) Chesterfield County: Early Architecture and Historic Sites, Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, Chesterfield, Virginia. Scarburgh, George Parker, (1850), Opinion of Honorable George P. Scarburgh, of Accomac, Virginia, in the cases between the Chesterfield Railroad Company and the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, Richmond, VA: H. K. Ellyson Weaver, Bettie W. (Bettie Weaver)(1961—1962) "The Mines of Midlothian", in Virginia Cavalcade Winter: pages 40–47. Chesterfield Railway Chronology Burke Davis (1985) The Southern Railway: Road Of The Innovators Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press Confederate Railroads website Special Collections, Virginia Tech University Library External links Midlothian Business Alliance Midlothian Mines and Rail Road Foundation Walton Park Community Association The Village of Midlothian Website Midlothian Rotary Club Kiwanis Club of Midlothian-Chesterfield Unincorporated communities in Chesterfield County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia Geography of Richmond, Virginia Populated places on the James River (Virginia) Midlothian, Virginia (orginally called Coalfield, Virginia)