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Slaves did virtually all the work that kept Chatham worthy of its widespread reputation for productivity, elegance, and hospitality. Before the Civil War, it's unlikely that white residents ever amounted to more than 20 percent of Chatham's popula…
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Chatham has watched quietly over Fredericksburg for almost 250 years—an imposing, 180-foot-long brick manor house once visible from much of town. It has witnessed great events and played host to important people. George Washington, Thomas Je…
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Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania—this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War's tragic cost in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted. Farms large…
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The Masons of Fredericksburg Lodge #4, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, organized as a lodge in 1752. They established this cemetery in 1784 and there are now approximately 270 graves within these grounds. Most are members and family members of …
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Dedicated October 19, 1928byCalvin CoolidgePresident ofthe United States
To commemoratethe beginning of work on theFredericksburg and SpotsylvaniaNational Battlefields Memorial,authorized by act of Congressapproved February 14, 1927,and embraci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAR_mt-zion-baptist-church_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Virginia and other southern states began to legislate social segregation, along racial lines. Additional laws that imposed poll taxes and literacy tests established hurdles to voting along economic lines. …
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Following its defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac went into winter quarters in Stafford County. Here at Bell-Air (the nearly 400-acre estate of Abraham Primmer, which the Leeland Station community…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM3H_liberty-town_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Seth Barton, 1755-1813, fought in the American Revolution, grew wealthy as a shipping merchant, and speculated in real estate. He laid out the subdivision that came to be called Liberty Town in 1812. He is buried at St. George's Church.
Henry D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLN6_bound-for-freedom_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"Fredericksburg is a captured town, the enemy took possession of the Stafford Hills ? and their guns have frowned down upon us ever since? The Federal army has abolished slavery wherever it has gone."— Jane Beale,a Fredericksburg Citizen
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH0K_mclaws-trail_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This trail will take you across the swampy headwaters of Ninemile Run, where for three days Confederate skirmishers of General Lafayette McLaws' division sparred with elements of Joseph Hooker's Union army. McLaws' spirited attacks fixed Hooker's …