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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DUU_carter-hall_Boyce-VA.html
Col. Nathaniel Burwell, great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter, constructed Carter Hall in the mid-1790s after moving here from Tidewater Virginia. Edmund Randolph Governor of Virginia, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Secretary of State, died here…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16KF_fight-at-berrys-ferry_Boyce-VA.html
Fight AtBerry's FerryJuly 19, 1864Imboden & Crook——
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJO_millwood_Boyce-VA.html
This village developed around two late-18th-century gristmills and Nathaniel Burwell's Carter Hall plantation, one of the preeminent estates in the area. The Burwell-Morgan Mill in the center of the village was a commercial gristmill, while the Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJM_greenway-historic-district_Boyce-VA.html
This 30-square-mile scenic landscape illustrates the evolution of a unique rural community. Unlike the rest of the Shenandoah Valley, where mostly Scots-Irish and German immigrants settled on small farms, Virginia Tidewater gentry occupied most of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIU_vinyard-fight_Boyce-VA.html
Vinyard Fight Gold's FarmDec. 16, 1864Mosby & US Cavalry——
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIS_long-branch_Boyce-VA.html
This Classical Revival mansion built for Robert Carter Burwell is one of the few remaining residential works in which B. Henry Latrobe, father of the American architectural profession, played a role in design. Latrobe offered suggestions to Burwel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQ_the-briars_Boyce-VA.html
Two and a half miles to the northwest stands The Briars, as stuccoed stone, two-story, five-bay dwelling that was constructed around 1819 as the home of Dr. Robert Powell Page. His daughter, Mary Francis Page, married John Esten Cooke, noted Virgi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIP_town-of-boyce_Boyce-VA.html
Boyce was established in 1880 at the intersection of the newly constructed Shenandoah Valley Railroad (now Norfolk Southern) and the road between the Shenandoah River and Winchester (formerly the Winchester and Berry's Ferry Turnpike). First known…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIO_saratoga_Boyce-VA.html
A half-mile east, Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan began this limestone Georgian mansion in 1779 while on furlough. He named it for the Battle of Saratoga in which he had recently distinguished himself. The house was probably constructed by He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIN_blandy-experimental-farm_Boyce-VA.html
In 1926, Graham F. Blandy bequeathed a 712-acre portion of his estate, The Tuleyries, to the University of Virginia to educate "boys farming in the various branches." Beginning late in the 1920s, the two-story, century-old brick slave quarters was…