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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5TN_maj-gen-j-e-b-stuart_Richmond-VA.html
[Monument's east side]:Commanding Cavalry CorpsArmy Northern VirginiaConfederate States of America***This statue erected by his comradesand the City of RichmondA.D. 1906[Monument's south side]:"Tell Gen. Stuart to act on his own judgement and do w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5SW_deep-run-school_Richmond-VA.html
This two-room schoolhouse opened in 1902. Its predecessor, Stand Spring School, had been destroyed by fire the previous year. The school was in use until 1911 offering seven grades of instruction. Wood stoves provided heat for the structure, and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM545_richmond-evacuation-fire_Richmond-VA.html
After midnight on 3 April 1865, Confederatesoldiers set fire to several tobacco warehousesnearby on orders from Lt. Gen. Richard S.Ewell, as the army evacuated Richmond andmarched west. Two distinct fires spreadrapidly throughout the commercial an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM53W_the-treasury-building-of-the-confederate-states-of-america_Richmond-VA.html
This wall was once a part of the Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America.
In it were the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the Confederate Government.
Here t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50F_james-monroe_Richmond-VA.html
Born in Westmoreland County 28" April 1758.Died in the City of New York 4" July 1831.By order of the General Assembly, his remains were removed to this cemetery 5" July 1858 as an evidence of the affection of Virginia for her good and honored son.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37O_alfred-d-a-d-price_Richmond-VA.html
Born into slavery in Hanover County in 1860, Alfred D. "A.D." Price moved to Richmond in the late 1870s. Soon after coming to Richmond, he set up a blacksmith shop, which expanded into a livery stable and the funeral home that stands here, now kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37N_sixth-mount-zion-baptist-church_Richmond-VA.html
The Rev. John Jasper, born a slave in Fluvanna County on 4 July 1812, organized the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church congregation in Richmond on 3 Sept. 1867 in a former Confederate stable on Brown's Island. A nationally celebrated preacher, Jasper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2XK_the-executive-mansion-of-virginia_Richmond-VA.html
On this site lived three Presidents of the United States, Monroe and Tyler as Governors and William Henry Harrison while his father, Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was Governor. The first house on this site was also …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2TL_virginia-war-memorial_Richmond-VA.html
This memorialerected by the Commonwealthof Virginia commemorates theservice and sacrifice of allVirginians duringWorld War II??1941-45and Korea???1950-53? ? Vietnam?????1955-75? ? Persian Gulf?1991? ? ? ? Above this, in text too wide to capture in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2N0_president-lincoln-visits-richmond_Richmond-VA.html
The Civil War framed the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Within weeks of his election in 1860 as the sixteenth American president, South Carolina seceded from the Union. The primary Confederate army surrendered on April 9, 1865, only days before Li…