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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5L_ellerslie_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
In 1839, David Dunlop and his wife, Anna Mercer Minge, a niece of President William Henry Harrison, acquired the Ellerslie tract. Robert Young designed the castellated Gothic Revival mansion for Dunlop in 1856, and construction began the next year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5K_confederate-fortification_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
This Fortification was part of a line of Confederate earthworks that guarded Swift Creek and the western approaches to Fort Clifton on the Appomattox River. It was probably constructed in response to Federal threats during Butler's Bermuda Hundred…
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Fort Clifton, constructed between 1862 and 1864, helped protect the city of Petersburg from Union gunboats. Its high elevation and well-placed gun embrasures made Fort Clifton a stronghold that was never taken by Union forces until it was abandone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5H_fort-clifton_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Confederate Fort Clifton guarded the Appomattox River and helped protect Petersburg in 1864-1865. The three earthworks that comprised the fort's batteries still stand on the bluffs along the river. Artillerists and militiamen garrisoned the positi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5G_fort-clifton_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
A short distance east on the Appomattox River stands Confederate Fort Clifton, an important fortification that guarded Petersburg against Union naval attack during the Civil War. On 9 May 1864, Federal gunboats commanded by Maj. Gen. Charles K. Gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5D_magnolia-acuminata_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Commonly called "Cucumber Tree"
One legend says that Thomas Shore, the owner of Violet Bank, planted this tree from a slip given to him by Thomas Jefferson.General Robert E. Lee was camped here on the morning of July 30, 1864 and heard the expl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5C_lee-at-violet-bank_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Lt. Col. Walter H. Taylor, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's aide, established Lee's headquarters here at Violet Bank on June 17, 1864, at the beginning of the siege of Petersburg. The city, protected by Confederate defensive works to the east and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB58_violet-bank_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
The present building was built around 1815 as it is the domestic architecture of the federal period. There are two theories concerning the origin of the name "Violet Bank".(1) Because of the thousands of violets that covered the hillside.(2) An al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAHS_howlett-line-park_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Following the Battle of Ware Bottom Church on May 20, 1864, Confederate forces began digging the earthworks that would become known as the Howlett Line. Named after the Howlett house, which stood at the northernmost point, the line stretched acros…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9I7_lees-headquarters_Colonial-Heights-VA.html
Lee's headquarters from the latter part of June, 1864 to September, 1864 were here.