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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM142_glen-burnie_Winchester-VA.html
This historic Shenandoah Valley home, known as Glen Burnie, is the homestead of Col. James Wood, who founded Winchester on a portion of his land in 1744. Wood's son, Robert, began the present house in 1794, but the estate was home to the Wood-Glas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM141_rear-admiral-richard-e-byrd_Winchester-VA.html
Here was born and reared Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator and polar explorer. A 1912 U.S. Navy Academy graduate, he received the Medal of Honor for the first flight over the North Pole in 1926, and made the first commercial nonstop transatlantic fligh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM140_george-washington-in-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
In Mar. 1748, George Washington first visited Winchester, then known as Fredericktown, as a surveyor for Lord Fairfax. Washington purchased property in Winchester in 1753 and was an unsuccessful candidate for a House of Burgesses seat here in 1755…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Z_george-washington-lot_Winchester-VA.html
Site of lot 77 purchased by George Washington May 15, 1753. Sold by his executors on June 17, 1805 to Dr. Robert MacKey, surgeon in the American Revolution.
A blacksmith shop located here made iron work for Fort Loudoun.
The lot was 119 ft. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y_george-washingtons-out-lot_Winchester-VA.html
Here was located George Washington's five-acre out-lot from Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, by grant of 15 May 1753. Fairfax also granted him a companion in-lot 77 at North Braddock Street and Fairfax Lane. The out-lot was number 16 of 80 i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13X_the-third-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
(The Battle of the Opequon)September 19, 1864The decisive assault in the campaign set in motion by General Grant to free the Shenandoah Valley from the control of the Confederacy took place here. This high ground was part of Winchester's defensive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13W_frederick-county-courthouse_Winchester-VA.html
During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate armies each used the Frederick County Courthouse as a hospital and a prison.
Cornelia McDonald, a local citizen, nursed the wounded here after the First Battle of Kernstown on March 23, 1862. She …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13V_second-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
June 13-15, 1863 took place during Gen. Lee's advance to Gettysburg between Confederates under Gen. Ewell and Federals under Gen. Milroy. The Federals occupied positions on the hills north and west of Winchester now called Milroys and Star Forts f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13U_winchester_Winchester-VA.html
Winchester's location at the north end of the Shenandoah Valley made it a place of strategic importance during the Civil War.
From here, roads led north and east threatening Washington, D.C., and the Valley Turnpike led south and west endanger…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13T_third-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
Near here Early, facing east, took his last position on September 19, 1864. About sundown he was attacked and driven from it, retreating south. Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley served in this engagement on the Union side.