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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNZ_second-prince-william-county-courthouse_Nokesville-VA.html
In 1743, the second Prince William County Courthouse was built near here along Cedar Run, replacing the first county courthouse in Woodbridge. After the creation of Fairfax County, the Cedar Run location, owned by Philemon Waters, became the cente…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12U1_warrenton-cemetery_Nokesville-VA.html
The gate to your right opens to WarrentonCemetery, the final resting place of 986 Confederate soldiers, of every Southern state, about650 casualties of the Civil War. Many woundedConfederates were evacuated to Warrenton andvicinity after the First…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDWI_stony-lonesome-farm_Nokesville-VA.html
Nearby is the site of Stony Lonesome, childhood home of one of the Confederacy's most distinguished generals. Richard S. Ewell left this farm in 1836 to enter West Point. Graduating in 1840, Lieutenant Ewell served with the 1st U.S. Dragoons on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6WV_battle-of-kettle-run_Nokesville-VA.html
On August 27, 1862, two of Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's divisions plundered the Federal supply depot at Manassas Junction. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division formed Jackson's rear guard at Bristoe Station on the Orange and Alexan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2GN_grapewood-farm-engagement_Nokesville-VA.html
Pursued by Union detachments after raiding a train north of Catlett Station on 30 May 1863, Confederate Col. John S. Mosby and 50 of his Rangers (43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry) made a stand on a hill just to the north. The Rangers used a howitze…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BL_greenwich_Nokesville-VA.html
Thru this village in January, 1779 passed the British and Hessian troops captured at the Battle of Saratoga on their way to prisoner of war camps located near Charlottesville. Later on June 5, 1781 General Anthony Wayne brought his brigade of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BJ_greenwich_Nokesville-VA.html
Although several engagements occurred nearby, Greenwich escaped unscathed, in part because of the creative actions of resident Charles Green, an Englishman. Green flew the British flag over his Carpenter's Gothic Home, The Lawn, built in 1855 (bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM271_cedar-run-court-house-site_Nokesville-VA.html
Second Prince WilliamCourt House1742 - 1760
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTS_colonial-road_Nokesville-VA.html
The road bed here follows the south branch of the Dumfries Road, in use before 1740, which crossed Cedar Run at Tacquet's Ford. This route connected the Port of Dumfries with Red Store, now known as Warrenton, and interior settlements beyond. Dowe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSN_asbury-church_Nokesville-VA.html
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, South was built 1893-1894 on land donated by Newton and Annie Allen Sayers of Massadale Farm. Methodist circuit riders stopped regularly at this farm to administer tothe spiritual needs of their followers in the …
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