Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘symbolic of Main Street USA’ - The Washington Post: Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them off to jail.
A small brass plaque in the county courthouse credits their landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia with overturning laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Their names are engraved on a granite obelisk, last on a list of prominent local African Americans. The county Web site devotes a page to their case.
