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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5JE_james-monroes-first-farm_Charlottesville-VA.html
In 1788 James Monroe purchased an 800-acre farm here to be close to his friend Thomas Jefferson and to establish a law office. In 1799 the Monroes moved to their new Highland plantation adjacent to Monticello and sold the first farm. In 1817 the B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HA_the-university-corner_Charlottesville-VA.html
In the early 1900s "The Corner," so named by the University crowd, was but a sparse collection of businesses at the entrance to the University Grounds—literally just a corner. In the intervening years "The Corner" has grown into a bustling c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GU_charlottesville-general-hospital_Charlottesville-VA.html
During the Civil War, the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville town hall and the courthouse, as well as nearby homes and hotels were converted into a makeshift hospital complex called the Charlottesville General Hospital. It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GB_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/HM596_meriwether-lewis-and-william-clark_Charlottesville-VA.html
Bold and farseeing pathfinders who carried the flag of the young republic to the western ocean and revealed an unknown empire to the uses of mankind.
A territory of 385000 square miles was added to the country by the efforts of these men, an ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RV_rio-hill_Charlottesville-VA.html
Civil War relic collectors found Stuart's winter camp and skirmish site (shaded area of map) long before the Rio Hill Shopping Center opened in 1989.
Metal detectors were used to search the area and artifacts—bullets, buttons, belt and ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RT_rio-hill-1864-skirmish_Charlottesville-VA.html
In December 1863, Confederate troops established winter quarters here. The approximately 200 soldiers, under the command of Capt. Marcellus N. Moorman, were from Stuart's Horse Artillery Battalion and were equipped with 16 cannons. The men built h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RP_skirmish-at-rio-hill_Charlottesville-VA.html
On February 29, 1864, General George A. Custer and 1500 cavalrymen made a diversionary raid Into Albemarle County. Here, north of Charlottesville, he attacked the Confederate winter camp of four batteries of the Stuart Horse Artillery commanded by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM36Z_the-three-notch-d-road_Charlottesville-VA.html
Also called Three Chopt Road, this colonial route ran from Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley. It likely took its name from three notches cut into trees to blaze the trail. A major east-west route across central Virginia from the 1730s, it was supe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QV_charlottesville_Charlottesville-VA.html
Lee and Jackson Parks contain two of Charlottesville's fine examples of public sculpture, gifts of benefactor Paul Goodloe McIntire (1860-1952). The Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson statue was dedicated in 1921,the Robert E. Lee statue in 1924.…