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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26F0_mount-olive-baptist-church_Richmond-VA.html
This church, originally known Mount Olivet African Church of Baptist, was founded May 2, 1867. Its founding congregants, wanting their own church, moved from local North Run Baptist Church and began meeting on this 1.18 acres site.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25N2_the-john-marshall-house_Richmond-VA.html
The John Marshall House The John Marshall House was the Richmond home of "the Great Chief Justice" from 1790 to 1835. The longest serving Chief Justice to date, Marshall was known as the "definer of the Constitution" and a shaper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25N1_john-marshall-corps-of-cadets_Richmond-VA.html
The Corps of Cadets established at John Marshall High School in 1915 was the first military training program in a public school in Virginia. Dedicated to the thousands of young men who wore the uniform of the Corps of Cadets. This cadet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2248_coburn-hall_Richmond-VA.html
Coburn Hall was constructed in 1899 and named for Maine governor Abner Coburn. It held Virginia Union's original chapel and library collection. Many legendary pastors and scholars preached and lectured in Coburn Hall, including Dr. Martin Luther K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2247_virginia-union-university_Richmond-VA.html
In Apri of 1865, the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) sends teaches and missionaries to Richmond, VA to educate newly freed slaves and the work of Richmond Theological School for Freedmen begins. Classes are held in several small l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21YH_officer-vernon-l-jarrelle_Richmond-VA.html
At this site, on August 1, 1973, officer Vernon L. Jarrelle responded to a robbery in progress. He was fatally wounded in a shoot out. Although mortally wounded, Patrolman Jarrelle returned fire killing one of his assailants. Two others were a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21T9_maggie-lena-walker-memorial_Richmond-VA.html
1864 — Born July 15 to Elizabeth Draper and later works with her mother as a laundress to make ends meet 1883 — Graduates from Richmond Colored Normal School, teaches for three years before marrying Armstead Walker, Jr. 1899 &md…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MV_virginia-state-penitentiary_Richmond-VA.html
The Virginia General Assembly authorized a state penitentiary in 1796 during a penal reform movement aimed at rehabilitating convicts through confinement and labor. Benjamin H. Latrobe, who later designed the United States Capitol, was the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MU_richmond-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Richmond Hill was an early name for Church Hill. Richard Adams, one of the most prominent men in Richmond, built a house on this site by the 1790s, and a second house, still standing, was constructed here about 1810. William Taylor remodeled t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21LC_oregon-hill_Richmond-VA.html
The Henrico County town of Sydney, laid out here in 1817, was slow to develop. Oregon Hill, a working-class Richmond neighborhood just east of Belvidere Street, expanded westward across the county line to this area during the 1850s. Many whit…
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