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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAFU_osbornes_Chester-VA.html
The town of Osbornes was named for Captain Thomas Osborne who settled nearby at Coxendale in 1616. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Osborne's plantation wharf was a tobacco inspection station and local shipping center. Thomas Jefferson, grandfa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAFT_farrars-island_Chester-VA.html
In 1611, Farrar's Island was the site of the "Citie of Henrico," one of Virginia's first four primary settlement areas under the Virginia Company of London. Later, it was part of a 2,000-acre land patent issued posthumously to William Farrar in 16…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7NB_port-walthall_Chester-VA.html
Port Walthall, which stood on the banks of the Appomattox River several miles to the south, was a major shipping and passenger embarkation point prior to the Civil War. The railroad tracks leading to the port were melted down to manufacture Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7N8_point-of-rocks_Chester-VA.html
Point of Rocks is located two miles south on the Appomattox River. In 1608, Captain John Smith wrote abut this high rock cliff which projected out to the channel of the river. Known to all as Point of Rocks, it was severely damaged during a battle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7J6_mary-randolph_Chester-VA.html
Mary Randolph, a native of Chesterfield County and author of the first American regional cookbook, lived nearby at Presquile Plantation during the last two decades of the 18th century after her marriage to David Meade Randolph in 1782. The couple …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IR_bermuda-hundred_Chester-VA.html
A mile north, on the site of an important Appamatuck Indian village, Sir Thomas Dale established Bermuda Hundred in 1613. The hundred was a traditional English jurisdiction of one hundred families. Dale, the deputy governor and marshal of Virginia…