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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24YI_captain-jack-jouett-jr_Mineral-VA.html
Began his perilous ride on horseback near this point, Cuckoo Tavern, to Monticello, between midnight and dawn on June 4, 1781, which saved Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia General Assembly in session at Charlottesville from capture by th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24V5_bumpass_Bumpass-VA.html
Bumpass Turnout, named for a family of local landowners, was a side track along the Louisa Railroad, which opened in 1837. A small community, including a post office, general store, and boys' academy, developed near the turnout's passenger and fre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21D7_richardson-and-morton-schools_Louisa-VA.html
Louisa Training School, the county's first high
school for African American students, was built
three miles northwest in 1926 with aid from the
Rosenwald Fund. In 1953, Archie Gibbs Richardson
High School replaced it here as part of an effort
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11R6_henry-box-brown_Mineral-VA.html
Born into slavery about 1815 at The Hermitage Plantation near here, Henry Brown was working in Richmond by 1830. Brown mailed himself to Philadelphia, and freedom, on 23 Mar. 1849 inside a three-foot-long box. Brown became a spokesperson for the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OF_flora-molton_Gordonsville-VA.html
Flora Molton sang what she called "spiritual and truth music," a combination of traditional religious songs and her own compositions. Born here in Louisa County, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. William Rollins, she began singing in church. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OE_campaign-of-1781_Louisa-VA.html
Here Lafayette, moving west to protect a supply depot in Albermarle from Cornwallis, entered this road, June 13, 1781.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OD_hugh-hammond-bennett-1881-1960_Louisa-VA.html
Hugh Hammond Bennett, "the father of soil conservation," joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Soils in 1903. While conducting a soil survey of Louisa County in 1905, he came to understand the link between soil erosion and soil qua…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10OC_jerdone-castle_Bumpass-VA.html
Much of Jerdone Castle's original 1,100 acres is submerged under Lake Anna. The house was begun ca. 1742 by Francis Jerdone, a Scottish immigrant. Jerdone's descendant, Sarah Jerdone Coleman, and her husband, Gen. Clayton Coleman, built the main I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU1V_louisa-county-fluvanna-county_Troy-VA.html
(West Facing Side):Louisa CountyArea 516 Square MilesFormed in 1742 from Hanover, and named for the Queen of Denmark, Daughter of King George II. Patrick Henry lived in this county for some years. In it was fought the cavalry Battle of Trevilians,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRY4_john-mercer-langston-birthplace_Louisa-VA.html
John Mercer Langston was born 5.5 miles N.W. of here on 14 Dec. 1829, son of plantation owner Ralph Quarles and his former slave Lucy Langston. A graduate of Oberlin College (1849), in 1855 Langston became township clerk of Brownheim, Ohio - the f…