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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM545_richmond-evacuation-fire_Richmond-VA.html
After midnight on 3 April 1865, Confederatesoldiers set fire to several tobacco warehousesnearby on orders from Lt. Gen. Richard S.Ewell, as the army evacuated Richmond andmarched west. Two distinct fires spreadrapidly throughout the commercial an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53W_the-treasury-building-of-the-confederate-states-of-america_Richmond-VA.html
This wall was once a part of the Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America.
In it were the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the Confederate Government.
Here t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37O_alfred-d-a-d-price_Richmond-VA.html
Born into slavery in Hanover County in 1860, Alfred D. "A.D." Price moved to Richmond in the late 1870s. Soon after coming to Richmond, he set up a blacksmith shop, which expanded into a livery stable and the funeral home that stands here, now kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2XK_the-executive-mansion-of-virginia_Richmond-VA.html
On this site lived three Presidents of the United States, Monroe and Tyler as Governors and William Henry Harrison while his father, Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was Governor. The first house on this site was also …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2N0_president-lincoln-visits-richmond_Richmond-VA.html
The Civil War framed the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Within weeks of his election in 1860 as the sixteenth American president, South Carolina seceded from the Union. The primary Confederate army surrendered on April 9, 1865, only days before Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LF_inauguration-of-davis_Richmond-VA.html
On a platform erected on this spot Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the regularly elected President of the Confederate States of America, February 22, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L9_robert-e-lee-bridge_Richmond-VA.html
Erected 1933 - 1934 byRichmond Bridge CorporationJohn J. Wicker, Jr., PresidentR. Keith Compton, V. Pres Allen J. Saville, V. Pres.Horace L. Smith, Jr., V. Pres. Wilmer L. O'Flaherty, Sec-Treas.——In conjunction withCity of RichmondJ. F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L8_hunter-holmes-mcguire-m-d_Richmond-VA.html
(Front):ToHunter Holmes McGuire, M.D., LL.D.,President of the American Medicaland of theAmerican Surgical Associations;Founder of the University College of Medicine;Medical Director, Jackson's Corps,Army of Northern Virginia;an eminent civil and m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2L7_thomas-j-jackson-general-csa_Richmond-VA.html
Presented by English Gentlemenas a tribute of admiration forThe Soldier and PatriotThomas J. Jacksonand gratefully accepted by Virginiain the name of the Southern People.Done A.D. 1875.In the hundredth year of the Commonwealth."Look, there is Jack…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KN_george-washington-monument_Richmond-VA.html
Washington
(Marker conveys the impact of Virginians on our Country's history through its prominent and allegorical figures. See the "More about this marker" section and the links for more information).