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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADY_gabriels-insurrection_Richmond-VA.html
Just to the north where Brook Road crosses Brook Run creek was the rendezvous point for the largest U.S. slave revolt ever planned. It was to be here on August 30, 1800, that Gabriel, a slave from nearby Brookfield Plantation, called for hundreds …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADL_dabbs-house_Richmond-VA.html
In May 1862, Gen. George McClellan's Union army was poised on the outskirts of Richmond threatening the Confederate capital. Here, in the Dabbs House, Robert E. Lee, as new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, opened his headquarters on Jun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADK_the-dabb-house_Richmond-VA.html
In the residence at the end of this lane, General R.E. Lee had headquarters from June 1 to June 26, 1862. Hither for conference came "Stonewall" Jackson, Longstreet, Stuart, A.P. Hill, D.H. Hill and other of his lieutenants. Here the plan for the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADH_adams-van-lew-house_Richmond-VA.html
Richmond mayor Dr. John Adams built a mansion here in 1802. It became the residence of Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900) whose father obtained it in 1836. During the Civil War, Elizabeth Van Lew led a Union espionage operation. African Americans, such…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADG_origins-of-richmond_Richmond-VA.html
There was "no place so strong, so pleasant, and delightful in Virginia, for which we called it None-such." So wrote Captain John Smith about the site he chose in 1609 when he established the first English settlement near the falls of the James Riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMADC_darbytown-road_Richmond-VA.html
During the Seven Days' Campaign, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill's Confederate divisions moved east along Darbytown Road toward its junction with the Long Bridge Road. This junction is about three miles southwest of Riddell's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACZ_confederate-memorial-chapel_Richmond-VA.html
The chapel was erected in 1887 in memory of the more than 260,000 Confederate war dead and as a place of worship for the veterans who resided here in the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home. The veterans themselves, many of them disabled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACY_site-of-j-e-b-stuarts-death_Richmond-VA.html
Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart, C.S.A., Commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, died here on May 12, 1864, in the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Brewer. Cause of his death was a wound received the previous day i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMABW_campaign-of-1781_Richmond-VA.html
The roads through Henrico County were important routes for the Revolutionary War campaign of 1781. To avoid British Gen. Charles Cornwallis's troops advancing from Petersburg, the Marquis de Lafayette left Richmond by 27 May and marched northward …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMABT_gabriels-rebellion_Richmond-VA.html
Gabriel, a slave of Thomas Prosser of nearby Brookfield plantation, planned a slave insurrection against Richmond on 30 Aug. 1800. The slaves intended to kidnap Governor James Monroe and compel him to support political, social, and economic equali…