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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U6R_hughlett-point-natural-area-preserve-historical_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve is situated on a small peninsula on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The preserve contains tidal and non-tidal wetlands, and exemplary undeveloped beach and low dunes, and upland forest communities. It …
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National Registry of Historical Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U11_jessie-ball-dupont-historical_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Well known for her contributions to this area of Virginia, Jessie Ball duPont (nee Jessie Dew Ball) was born on Ball family property about one mile north of Hughlett Point. Schoolteacher She was the first teacher at Shiloh School in Northumber…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8Q_morattico-baptist-church_Kilmarnock-VA.html
On the hill is Morattico Church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8P_ditchley-and-cobbs_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Ditchley, five miles northeast, was patented in 1651 by Colonel Richard Lee. The first house dated from 1687, the present house was built by Kendall Lee in 1752. Cobbs Hall, near by, was acquired by Richard Lee, probably before 1651. A house w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG30_first-american-woman-missionary-to-china_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Here was born, October 28, 1817, Henrietta Hall (daughter of Colonel Addison Hall), first American woman missionary to China. She married Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, and was sent with him to China by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, arriving there …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG29_kilmarnock_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Kilmarnock was called "the Crossroads" about 1664, because multiple thoroughfares crossed here. By the middle of the 18th century, the community was named Steptoe's Ordinary for a storehouse and tavern owned by William Steptoe I. About 1775, it be…
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