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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRX8_third-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
On September 19, 1864, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah routed Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's Valley Army at the Third Battle of Winchester (also called Opequon) in the bloodiest and largest battle in the Shenandoah Valley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRX7_stephenson-depot_Winchester-VA.html
In the spring of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia began a march that culminated at the Battle of Gettysburg. Lee chose the Shenandoah Valley for his invasion route. Ninety-six hundred Federals under Gen. Rober…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMRY_joist-hite-and-braddock-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
(West Facing Side):Joist Hite and BraddockBy this road, then an Indian trail, Joist Hite and his followers came to make the first permanent settlement in this section, 1732. In 1755, General Edward Braddock of the British army, accompanied by Geor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1O_battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
General James Shields with 7,000 Federals defeated Stonewall Jackson with 3,500 Confederates. Jackson's object was to create a diversion which would prevent troops being sent to McClellan for the attack on Richmond. He arrived south of Kernstown i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV7_lord-fairfax_Winchester-VA.html
At sometime prior to the incorporation of Winchester, Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, and at one time a Justice of the County of Frederick, dedicated to the public uses of the square which is bounded by Court House Avenue and the streets kn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV5_colonel-james-wood_Winchester-VA.html
Colonel James Wood, the founder of Winchester, was a native of the ancient city of the same name in England. He laid out and founded the new town prior to 1740. It received a charter of incorporation from the colonial legislature in February 1752.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV2_george-washingtons-political-career-began-on-this-site_Winchester-VA.html
On July 24, 1758, at the first Frederick County Court House on this site, Colonel George Washington, age 26, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. This was the first elective office of the young commander of Virginia's forces here to gua…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUQ_admiral-richard-evelyn-byrd_Winchester-VA.html
The Winchester native attended the Virginia Military Institute, The University of Virginia, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, 1912.
He was a pioneer aviator and Polar explorer. In 1926, he was the first to fly over the North Pole for w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUN_a-view-of-winchester-in-1745-the-four-public-lots_Winchester-VA.html
Winchester, originally known as Frederick Town, was officially founded in 1744 by Col. James Wood. It was the first British town established west of the Blue Ridge mountains and in believed to have looked something like this. These four public lot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHU7_lutheran-pioneers_Winchester-VA.html
To the Glory of Godand in Memory of Lutheran Pioneers.Erected by members and friends of Grace Evangelical Lutheran ChurchWinchester, Va. 1938.These walls are the sacred ruins of the first Lutheran Church erected in Winchester - "Die teutsche Luthe…