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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMATU_a-nameless-grave_Newport-News-VA.html
"A soldier of the Union mustered out,"is the inscription on an unknown graveat Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave,nameless and dateless; sentinel or scoutshot down in skirmish, or disastrous routof battle when the loud artillery draveits iron …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAT5_newport-news_Newport-News-VA.html
This area was blessed with abundant springs famous to mariners for centuries after the great sea captain Christopher Newport visited here enroute to Jamestown in May 1607 in command of the first permanent English settlers of the New World. Thus be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAT3_the-dairy-building_Newport-News-VA.html
In the South, dairy buildings were small structures, usually 14 feet square with a gable roof. The buildings' overhanging eaves, louvered ventilators, and insulated walls were designed to keep the milk cool inside. Milk was placed in shallow tubs …
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Located near a circa 1630 house site, this graveyard has held the mortal remains of the Harwood family and other persons since the seventeenth century. Southern plantations typically had a private plot containing the graves of several generations …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAT0_the-endview-spring_Newport-News-VA.html
The fresh water bubbling from this natural spring has supported wildlife and the various residents on this property: Indian hunting parties, the Harwood/Curtis families, and military encampments. During the American Revolution, General George Wash…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMASR_a-large-brick-kitchen_Newport-News-VA.html
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Chesapeake planters moved the preparation and cooking of food from their homes to a separate structure. Thus, the odors, noise and heat from cooking were eliminated from the main house. Most …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMASQ_master-and-slaves_Newport-News-VA.html
Unlike their ancestors who worked in tobacco fields, Warwick County slaves provided labor for raising staple crops. Slaves also cared for livestock and draft animals, worked in fields, repaired fences, washed clothes, cut wood and performed a vari…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMASO_largest-and-most-valuable-estate-in-the-county_Newport-News-VA.html
In 1844, Richard D. Lee inherited 481.5 acres from his father's estate. For the next 16 years, Lee improved and expanded his land holdings until he owned 2,100 acres. In 1860, his farm yielded 2,900 bushels of wheat, 3,500 bushels of corn, 1,400 b…
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Situated on high ground two miles behind the Warwick-Yorktown line, this redoubt (a four or multiple-sided field fortification) was constructed by the Confederate Army of the Peninsula. It provided a field of fire down the Great Warwick Road towar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMASM_homestead-by-the-main-road_Newport-News-VA.html
Lee Hall Mansion is the only Italianate antebellum plantation house on the lower Peninsula. It was completed in 1859 and was home to Richard D. Lee, justice of the peace for Warwick County. In 1850 Lee purchased a 452-acre tract of land, which was…