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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28Z4_from-stalemate-to-breakthrough_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The largest battle of the Peninsula Campaign, Gaines' Mill, began here. On the afternoon of June 27, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee''s Army of Northern Virginia reached the New Cold Harbor crossroads just 300 yards north of here. Lee spread his men acro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28Z3_whitings-division_Mechanicsville-VA.html
The men of Confederate Gen. William H. C. Whiting's division began their portion of the decisive charge in these fields. The 11th Mississippi is seen in the foreground around Whiting. Gen. John B. Hood is exhorting the 4th Texas in the middl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26AD_the-reading-room_Mechanicsville-VA.html
On this site in 1743 ordinary colonists began the successful struggle for greater civil and religious liberty, and inspired a series of events that changed the course of American history. Four years earlier the English evangelist, George Whitefiel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XUW_school-transportation-historical_Ashland-VA.html
Virginia public school boards began providing transportation to white students early in the 20th century but frequently denied this service to African Americans. Black children often had to walk miles to school, leading to nonattendance. Across Vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X6N_dig-and-dig-some-more-historical_Doswell-VA.html
The earthworks before you form a unique pattern known as the "V's". At first glance, the trenches seem to be without pattern or purpose but they tell the story of the Union defense of the area on May 24-27. The line of trenches on the ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TZS_11th-mississippi-monument-historical_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(front)
11th Mississippi
Infantry Regiment
Law's Brigade
Hood's Division
Jackson's Corps
Lee's Army
of
Northern Virginia
C.S.A.
Dedicated 2016
In their honor
The men who carried this position were soldiers indeed
Stonewall Jackson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSC_railroad-company-sees-potential-for-a-town-among-the-slash-pines_Ashland-VA.html
Railroad transportation was still new in 1836 when the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac (RF&P) Railroad Company completed a single track from Richmond to a sawmill 20 miles north in rural Hanover County. At the same time, the RF&P purchased a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSB_town-of-ashland-historic-district_Ashland-VA.html
The Town of Ashland has two historic districts: the Randolph-Macon College Historic Campus that was made a district in 1979 and the larger Ashland Historic District established in 1983.
The Randolph-Macon College Historic Campus encompasses thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSA_downtown-business-growth-fuels-ashland-expansion_Ashland-VA.html
Ashland's business district developed after the Civil War around the intersection of England and Thompson streets and Railroad Avenue. The train station was on the east side of the tracks north of England Street, with a passenger shed on the west …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHI_cold-harbor-the-early-actions_Mechanicsville-VA.html
On May, 31, 1864, while the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia fought along Totopotomoy Creek, four miles to the north, Federal and Confederate cavalry gravitated toward the Old Cold Harbor crossroads. Following their victory al…