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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K7_fonthill_Champlain-VA.html
A mile and a half west stands Fonthill, built in 1832 by Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter. He served variously as United States senator, Confederate secretary of state, Confederate States senator, and as a member of the peace commission that met wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K6_wilderness-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 5, 1864. In the early afternoon, Wadsworth's Division of Warren's Corps hit the right flank of Rodes' Confederate Division near this point. Its left already crippled by Griffin's Division on the Turnpike a mile north, Rodes' line here staggere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K5_vauters-church_Loretto-VA.html
This was the principal church of St. Anne's Parish, which was formed in 1704 from Sittenburne Parish and encompassed Essex County. According to tradition, part of the present church was built about 1719 with an addition constructed in 1731, but ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K4_portobacco-indians_Loretto-VA.html
Along the Rappahannock River near here lived the Portobacco Indians, who may have been part of the Portobaccos of Maryland. After moving to Virginia in the 1650's, they lived here in peace with their Indian neighbors, who spoke a similar dialect a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K3_the-battle-of-fort-montgomery_Highland-Falls-NY.html
To aid Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's British army stalled at Saratoga, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton sailed from New York with 3,000 British, German, and Loyalist soldiers and a flotilla of warships. On the morning of October 7, 1777, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K2_grant-comes-to-virginia_Locust-Grove-VA.html
This short trail leads to "Grant's Knoll." For three days Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made his headquarters here, issuing orders that would determine the fate of armies and men. President Abraham Lincoln had recently appointed Grant general-in-chief ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K1_devereux-station_Clifton-VA.html
In 1863, during the Civil War, Pennsylvanian Herman Haupt, a noted bridge designer and the superintendent of Union military railroads, commissioned John Devereux, the railroad superintendent in Alexandria, to build a siding on the Orange & Alexand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K0_ivakota-farm_Clifton-VA.html
On this land stood Ivakota Farm, founded as a Progressive Era reform school and home for unwed mothers and their children. In 1915 Ella Shaw donated her 264-acre farm to the National Florence Crittenton Mission (NFCM). Named for the states where s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4JZ_rudes-hill_New-Market-VA.html
Stonewall Jackson's camp ground April 2-16, 1862; his headquarters at the foot of this hill. Colonel John Francis Neff, Commander 33rd Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, born and buried near here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4JY_the-prettyman-house_Rockville-MD.html
This house was built on a 13.5-acre lot on the outskirts of Rockville in 1842. A stone marking the southwest corner of the original 1803 Rockville Plan is between this house and the adjacent Rockville Academy grounds. Matilda Holland, widow of Mon…