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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAFG_joseph-jenkins-roberts_Petersburg-VA.html
[Southwest face:]Resident of Petersburg 1815-1829
First President of the Republic of Liberia1848-1855 + 1871-1876[Northeast face:]
Joseph Jenkins Roberts worked on Union Street, about 100 yards northwest of here.This marker was authorized J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1L_tudor-hall-field-quarter_Petersburg-VA.html
The environment in front of you recreates elements of a plantation Field Quarter of the 1800s. The slaves who provided agricultural labor on farms like Tudor Hall lived in areas like this in the years before the Civil War.
The first slave dwell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1H_kitchen-garden_Petersburg-VA.html
A nineteenth-century kitchen garden of one acre, about the size of a football field, could be maintained by one person and provide produce for 10-15 people. The management of the kitchen garden generally fell to the women of the household. The pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1G_the-boisseau-family-cemetery_Petersburg-VA.html
Many nineteenth-century Virginians buried deceased family members near their homes rather than in distant church yards. While we do not know when this cemetery was established, the only grave marker on this property belonged to Martha Eliza T. Boi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1F_tobacco-barn_Petersburg-VA.html
Nineteenth-century farmers cut tobacco plants and placed them on sticks to be cured in tobacco barns like this one. Curing, a four-week process, preserves plants by removing moisture, and brings out the aroma and flavor. Farmers in Dinwiddie Count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1A_kitchen-and-servants-hall_Petersburg-VA.html
The design of this building is typical of slave quarters built on Virginia plantations during the 1840s and 1850s. Each side provided space for one slave family, with a room downstairs for living and working and a loft for sleeping. The right side…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA18_tudor-hall-barn_Petersburg-VA.html
This building is a reproduction of a nineteenth-century barn located in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. Tidewater and Piedmont farmers constructed numerous small, inexpensive barns to support their work. Virginia's mild climate made it unnecessar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA17_tudor-hall_Petersburg-VA.html
William Boisseau, a tobacco farmer, constructed Tudor Hall around 1812. Originally two rooms wide and one room deep, this style of house was popular in Dinwiddie County during the late 1700s and early 1800s. In the 1850s Joseph G. Boisseau, Willia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA14_the-big-house_Petersburg-VA.html
This landscape re-creates elements of a typical Southside Virginia plantation during the mid-nineteenth century. Tudor Hall, an original nineteenth-century building, was at the center of a farm that supported the owner, his family, and their slave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0W_after-the-breakthrough-april-2-1865_Petersburg-VA.html
Following their breakthrough near the Boisseau and Hart Farms, Federal soldiers of Major General Horatio G. Wright's Sixth Corps poured over the earthworks southwest of Petersburg and into the Confederate rear. Some Federals penetrated as far as a…