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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27W7_vienna-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Vienna-VA.html
For Those Who Served Our Country And Community
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1W_fields-of-fire_Vienna-VA.html
On 17 June 1863, early in the Gettysburg Campaign, the Union XII Corps camped just north of here. The men left Fairfax Court House at daybreak, ate breakfast at Hunter's Mill, and halted by 11 AM because of extreme heat, 99 degrees in the shade. D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNP_hunter-station_Vienna-VA.html
This station was called a flag stop—a passenger would step out and flag down the train to catch a ride.The railroad was owned by the Southern Railway at this time and was operated as a steam railroad. Wires were installed in 1912 when the li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10VO_cavalry-engagement-near-hunters-mill_Vienna-VA.html
On 26 Nov. 1861, a 120-man detachment of Col. Robert Ransom Jr.'s 1st North Carolina Cavalry attacked 94 men of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry under Capt. Charles Bell. Ransom's men took Bell's detachment from the rear as the Pennsylvanians headed n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJV9_the-springhouse_Vienna-VA.html
In the old days, springhouses did the job ofrefrigerators. This springhouse served theoccupants of the farm from the 18th throughthe early 20th centuries.
It was built directly over the spring andshaded by trees. Cool spring water flowinginto t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0Q_the-great-falls-line_Vienna-VA.html
The Bluemont Branch of the Washington & Old Dominion was not the railroad's only line. The Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad arose in 1906 from the vision of two prominent men. Sen. Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia had prospered through coal, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRO_civil-war-action-at-vienna_Vienna-VA.html
On June 17, 1861, at this bend in the railroad, a Union train carrying 271 men of the 1st Ohio Volunteers was ambushed by nearly 700 South Carolina infantry and cavalry. Amid artillery fire, the Ohioans jumped from the platform cars and took cover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIF_terror-by-the-tracks_Vienna-VA.html
On October 18, 1864 Reverend John B. Read, a lay preacher at the Falls Church Baptist Church, was executed in dense pine woods by the railroad bridge here at Piney Branch. Early that morning a contingent of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIE_strategic-junction_Vienna-VA.html
At the beginning of the American Civil War in mid-1861, Union General Irvin McDowell, Commander, Army of Northeastern Virginia, knew that his army lacked an adequate supply of wagons. The Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad (today's W&OD T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGGL_hunter-station_Vienna-VA.html
The 1860 Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad station at this junction was called a flag stop - a passenger would step out and flag down the train to catch a ride.
At the time that the 1900 picture to the left was taken, the railroad was…