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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JL_hedgesville-historic-district-national-register-site_Hedgesville-WV.html
During the French and Indian War (c. 1750) Virginia Militia Col. George Washington supervised the construction of Fort Hedges, a stockade fort built along the Warm Spring Road at the heavily-traveled Skinner's gap atop North Mountain (740 feet ele…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JK_battle-of-north-mountain-depot_Hedgesville-WV.html
This boulder marks the site on Camp Hill where the batteries were fired during the War Between the States in the raid on the federal blockhouse, located at North Mountain. On July 4, 1864, the 14th, 16th, and 17th Regiments of General McCausland's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QQ6_swan-pond-manor_Martinsburg-WV.html
1.5 miles north is Swan Pond Manor, a 2,000 acre retreat set aside in 1745 for use by Thomas, Lord Fairfax, once the proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia who established an estate at Greenway Court, Frederick County in 1738. So named becaus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QQ3_tuscarora-church_Martinsburg-WV.html
Tuscarora Presbyterian Church, which was built before 1745 by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Rev. Hugh Vance, first pastor, is buried here. During Indian days, worshipers hung their guns on pegs in the walls while they sang and prayed.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DAV_hammond-house_Hedgesville-WV.html
Dr. Allen C. Hammond constructed this Greek Revival-style house about 1838. During the Civil War, both sides used it periodically for a headquarters or a hospital. The war ruined Hammond, a strong Southern sympathizer.
In October 1859, Hammond…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1755_belle-boyd-house_Martinsburg-WV.html
Isabelle "Belle" Boyd, the Confederate spy, lived here during part of her childhood. The ten-year-old and her family moved here in 1853 and left in 1858 for a dwelling (no longer standing) on South Queen Street. According to Boyd, when Union Gen. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM156E_1862-antietam-campaign_Falling-Waters-WV.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13SK_civil-war-martinsburg_Martinsburg-WV.html
Martinsburg, strategically located on the Valley Turnpike, (present day U.S. Route 11) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was a major transportation center and the northern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley. Both sides contested for it frequently…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13SJ_berkeley-hotel_Martinsburg-WV.html
This is one of the last surviving antebellum buildings in the area. It was constructed shortly after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Martinsburg in 1842. The adjacent railroad yards twice were Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13SI_camp-hopkins_Hedgesville-WV.html
In December 1862, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley stationed detachments of the 54th Pennsylvania and 1st West Virginia Infantry regiments here to guard and repair the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a main supply route between the Ohio River and the na…