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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEGH_vanguard-of-freedom_Charlottesville-VA.html
Citizens of central and western Virginia have contributed significantly to national defense and to the U.S. Army throughout its 200-year history.
During the Revolutionary War, Virginians fought valiantly as members of the militia and the Conti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMED9_sacajawea_Charlottesville-VA.html
This plaque is dedicated to Sacajawea, whose contribution of traditional and cultural knowledge, with courage and bravery, earned her recognition in the chronicles of American History.
Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshone (Agaidika) born in Salmon, I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEBY_miller-school_Charlottesville-VA.html
W 225A bequest of Samuel Miller (1792-1869) provided funds to found the Miller School in 1878. Miller, a Lynchburg businessman born in poverty in Albemarle County, envisioned a regional school for children who could not afford an education. The sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD2F_charlottesville_Charlottesville-VA.html
The site was patented by William Taylor in 1737. The town was established by law in 1762, and was named for Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. Burgoyne's army, captured at Saratoga in 1777, was long quartered near here. The legislature was in se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD2E_charlottesville_Charlottesville-VA.html
The site was patented by William Taylor in 1737. The town was established by law in 1762, and was named for Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. Burgoyne's army, captured at Saratoga in 1777, was long quartered near here. The legislature was in se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD28_rio-mills_Charlottesville-VA.html
The 19th-century mill village of Rio Mills stood 600 yards west of here, where the former Harrisonburg-Charlottesville Turnpike crossed the South Fork of the Rivanna River. Following the Battle of Rio Hill on 29 February 1864, Union General George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD26_jefferson-school_Charlottesville-VA.html
The name Jefferson School has a long associationwith African American education in Charlottesville.It was first used in the 1860s in a Freedmen'sBureau school and then for a public grade schoolby 1894. Jefferson High School opened here in1926 as t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD22_stone-tavern-and-central-hotel_Charlottesville-VA.html
George Nicholas, Albemarle County's Virginia General Assembly delegate in 1783, built a stone house here in 1784. James Monroe occupied it 1789-1790, while improving the dwelling at his nearby farm, later the site of the University of Virginia. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1G_president-monroes-local-homes_Charlottesville-VA.html
In 1789 James Monroe moved to Charlottesville and for one year his home was located in the first block west of this site. Then he lived for nine years in the home he built on what is now called "Monroe Hill" at the University of Virginia. His fina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD04_paul-goodloe-mcintire_Charlottesville-VA.html
Paul Goodloe McIntire (1860-1952) commissioned in 1921 the statue of General Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson from Charles Keck. He gave the statue and this park to Charlottesville, the city of his birth, for the pleasure of all who pass by. …