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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAI6_powhatan-stone_Richmond-VA.html
An old Indian stone removed from and now overlooking "Powhatan Seat" a royal residence of King Powhatan when Captain John Smith and his fellow "Adventurers" made the first permanent English settlement in this country at Jamestown, Virginia 1607.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAHV_arnolds-picket-driven-in_Richmond-VA.html
Arnold'sPicket driven inJany 4th 1781ByCol. J. Nicholas(south face)This pylon, re-created in granite and containing a replica of the original 1834 inscription, was re-dedicated April 17, 1991, by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGK_three-chopt-road_Richmond-VA.html
This boulder marks thebeginning of the Three-Chopt Road
The British Legion under Command of Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton, passed over this road in June, 1781, when returning from the raid upon Charlottesville. Along the intersecting River Road, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGJ_chimborazo-hospital_Richmond-VA.html
In this park Dr. James B. McCaw developed for the Confederate States of America a military hospital which was then the largest in human history. It received 17,000 wounded, served more than 76,000 patients, and had a mortality of less than 10%. Dr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGI_battle-of-bloody-run_Richmond-VA.html
Nearby is the site where Chief Totopotomoy of the Pamunkey died in 1656. The English colonists had become concerned over the recent settlement nearby of the Rickohockans along the falls of the James River. They called upon Totopotomoy to assist in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGH_into-the-bottle_Richmond-VA.html
The Union Army of the James, retiring across Proctor's Creek in this vicinity after the battle of Drewry's Bluff, May 16, 1864, turned east into the Peninsula between the James and Appomattox Rivers, where it was "Bottled" by Confederate forces.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGG_proctors-creek-fight_Richmond-VA.html
To the west of the road here at Proctor's Creek Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Union Army of the James attacked the outer line of the Confederates' Drewry Bluff defenses on 13-14 May 1864. On the first day, Union Maj. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore struc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGF_halfway-house_Richmond-VA.html
This old inn was the headquarters of Major-General B. F. Butler's Union Army of the James during the Battle of Drewery's Bluff, May 16, 1864. The inn was so named because of its location about midway between Richmond and Petersburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGD_half-way-house_Richmond-VA.html
As Grant grappled with Lee in the Wilderness and near Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864, Union Gen. Benjamin Butler landed with 30,000 troops at Bermuda Hundred, eight miles east of here. Butler's objective was to open another front and to thre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAG9_site-of-first-iron-foundry-in-america_Richmond-VA.html
Site of FirstIron Foundry in AmericaEstablished in 1619