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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9U6_the-fight-for-north-anna-the-north-anna-battlefield_Doswell-VA.html
(west side of Marker):The Fight for North Anna On May 21, 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant directed the Army of the Potomac away from Spotsylvania Court House in a turning movement toward Hanover Junction, today known as Doswell. The Confedera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9NL_north-anna-river-campaign_Doswell-VA.html
Approaching Richmond from the north after the Wilderness Campaign, Lt. General U.S. Grant sought to cross the North Anna River and capture the critical rail center at Hanover Junction (Doswell). General R. E. Lee ordered the construction of a comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9NI_hanover-junction_Doswell-VA.html
Two 19th-century railroads crossed at grade level just east: the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac and the Virginia Central, which ran west to the Shenandoah Valley, the Confederacy's breadbasket during the Civil War. This junction attained strat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6XM_the-shenandoah-lumber-company_Doswell-VA.html
Patterned after the old flumes built to transport lumber out of the west coast mountains at the turn of the century, this is a classic log flume designed and manufactured for family fun.Water flows through the trough at 3,500 gallons per minute, p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6X3_the-shockwave_Doswell-VA.html
The second stand-up roller coaster built in the United States, and the first introduced on the east coast. The ride features 2,210 feet of track & a lift hill 93 feet tall. The ride was repainted in 2000 to celebrate our 25th anniversary. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UO_the-scooby-doo-ghoster-coaster_Doswell-VA.html
The Scooby-Doo Ghoster Coaster opened in 1974 with Lion Country Safari, making it the first ride to operate at Kings Dominion. The figure 8 layout is patterned after a similar coaster that once ran at Cincinnati's Old Coney amusement park. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UJ_lee-and-grant_Doswell-VA.html
Lee and Grant faced each other on the North Anna, May 23-26, 1864. Union forces crossed here and four miles to the west but found they could not dislodge Lee's center, which rested on the stream. Grant then turned east to Cold Harbor.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UI_caroline-county-hanover-county_Doswell-VA.html
Caroline CountyArea 529 Square MilesFormed in 1727 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William. Named for Queen Carline, wife of King George II. George Rogers Clark, Conqueror of the Northwest, passed his youth in this county. Hanover CountyAr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UH_lees-movements_Doswell-VA.html
A short distance east, at Taylorsville, Lee had his headquarters, May 24-26, 1864, as his army moved southeastward to intervene between Grant and Richmond. There Ewell's Corps turned to Cold Harbor, May 27, 1864.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6UG_early-indian-tool-making-camps_Doswell-VA.html
On this site overlooking the North Anna River, archaeological investigations conducted in 2006 in cooperation with Virginia tribes identified toolmaking camps dating to 8000 B.C. Indians used these camps repeatedly, especially from about 1000 B.C.…
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