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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJLF_outgunned_Henrico-VA.html
General Robert E. Lee hoped that a crossfire of Confederate artillery directed against the crest of Malvern Hill might silence the powerful array of Union guns and clear the way for an infantry charge. Generals Longstreet and Jackson established c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJLA_malvern-hill_Henrico-VA.html
Before you stood the Union rearguard, on Malvern Hill. Here, McClellan's line atop the plateau was only 875 yards wide. Confederate batteries were to soften the position prior to the infantry assault, but the Federal artillery proved superior. As …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJL9_battlefield-burials_Henrico-VA.html
The depressions to the right of the trail probably represent former graves of Confederate soldiers. The dead of both armies received hasty battlefield burials. Most were disinterred after the war, with the Union dead going to Glendale National Cem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJH2_confederate-attacks-stall_Henrico-VA.html
General Couch found the uneven terrain in this section of the Union position less favorable for artillery. He chose to push his infantry well forward of the guns, placing brigades under Abercrombie, Howe, and Palmer on this ground to prevent the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH02_tuckahoe_Henrico-VA.html
Perhaps the oldest frame residence on James River west of Richmond, Tuckahoe was begun about 1715 by Thomas Randolph. The little schoolhouse still stands here where Thomas Jefferson began his childhood studies. Famous guests here have included Wil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGZN_bethlehem-baptist-church_Henrico-VA.html
In 1828, nine people organized a Sunday school in a log schoolhouse, five miles from the Richmond City limits. Students from the Virginia Baptist Seminary, now the University of Richmond, helped it become the Bethlehem Baptist Church. The church r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGUD_deep-run-baptist-church_Henrico-VA.html
Founded here in 1742, Deep Run Baptist Church was established as an Episcopal chapel. Modeled after St. John's Church in Richmond, it was constructed in 1749 with wooden pegs and beams that remain part of the present structure. During the Revoluti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIA_four-mile-creek-baptist-church_Henrico-VA.html
The Baptist Church of Christ on Four Mile Creek was constituted at Clayton Springs on the 5th of August, 1781. In 1828, church members moved the meeting house four miles west to its present location. In the fall of 1864, Union troops occupied the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGI2_henrico-parish-church_Henrico-VA.html
Sir Thomas Dale established the original Henrico Parish Church at Henricus, 4½ miles southeast of here, in 1611. The first minister, the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, has been credited with converting Pocahontas to Christianity. Other notewort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGI0_wilton_Henrico-VA.html
Five miles southwest. The house was built by William Randolph, son of William Randolph of Turkey Island, early in the eighteenth century. It was Lafayette's headquarters, May 15-20, 1781, just before Cornwallis crossed the James in pursuit of him.