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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWTB_petersburg-volunteers-1812_Petersburg-VA.html
This tree is dedicated in honor of thePetersburg Volunteers who left thissite on Oct. 21, 1812 to fight the Britishat Fort Meigs, in the Ohio Territory.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWT6_lincoln-in-petersburg_Petersburg-VA.html
On the morning of April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln awoke at City Point to the news that Petersburg had fallen just hours before. He immediately arranged to visit the city and meet with Gen. Ulysses S. Grant that morning. Lincoln and his pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWT1_lincoln-in-petersburg_Petersburg-VA.html
At noon on April 7, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his party left City Point for Petersburg in a special train on the newly repaired City Point Railroad, arriving in the city half an hour later. His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and their young so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOP_peter-jones-trading-station_Petersburg-VA.html
You are looking into the bowels of this building from near the attic downward to the second, first, and basement levels. You see a massive, rubble-stone structure with stone walls approximately 2'8" thick at the basement level which taper slightly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOO_rock-garden_Petersburg-VA.html
The disastrous fire of 1980 destroyed the roof and interior wood components of the building which caused the huge stone walls to collapse mostly into the interior. Approximately 4,700 cubic feet of stone waIls were a part of the rubble. A view of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWON_tavern-park_Petersburg-VA.html
You are standing within Lot Number One of the Old town of Petersburg, as laid out for Abraham Jones, Jr., in December of 1783. The first owner was William Byrd II of Westover. William Pride purchased the lot in 1745, and, entrepreneur that he was,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOM_concrete-bunker_Petersburg-VA.html
This monument stone sits on a 10' deep concrete bunker that was discovered during construction, together with portions of an abandoned railroad track. The bunker was used to store coal for the furnaces in the large buildings which once stood on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOL_peter-jones-trading-station_Petersburg-VA.html
The building before you was built as part of a trading station set up during the middle of the 17th century by Peter Jones I and his father-in-law Major General Abraham Wood. The building is known variously as Peter Jones Trading Station, Peter Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOK_peter-jones-trading-station_Petersburg-VA.html
Of rubble stone construction, this building appears to have been built sometime between 1650 and 1750. Its type of construction is unique to the Fall Zone where stone can be quarried from the building site's environs. Between 1785 and 1791 the bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOJ_petersburgs-role-in-trade_Petersburg-VA.html
Immediately to your right is a mural adapted from a drawing by William Waud which appeared in Harper's Magazine during the Civil War. The mural is an artist's impression of the Petersburg waterfront on the Appomattox River - probably at City Dock …