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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65G_shirley_Charles-City-VA.html
The house a short distance south, Shirley was first occupied in 1613 and was known as West-and-Shirley Hundred. In 1664, Edward Hill patented the place, which was left by the third Edward Hill to his sister, Elizabeth Carter, in 1720. Here was bor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65E_salem-church_Charles-City-VA.html
This church, four miles north, was used as a field hospital, June, 1864, following the action an Nance's Shop, where the Union cavalryman Gregg, guarding a wagon train, was attacked by Wade Hampton. Gregg was driven from the field but saved the wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM648_greenway_Charles-City-VA.html
This was the home of John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, 1808-1811. His son, John Tyler, President of the United States, was born here, March 29, 1790.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM647_charles-city-c-h_Charles-City-VA.html
In 1702 Charles City County, which then included both sides of James River, was divided; the courthouse here was built about 1730. Here Simcoe's British Cavalry surprised a party of militia, January 8, 1781. Here Grant's Army passed on its way to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM646_president-tylers-home_Charles-City-VA.html
Just to the south is Sherwood Forest, where President John Tyler lived after his retirement from the presidency until his death in 1862. He bought the place in 1842 and came to it as his home in March, 1845. Here Tyler, with his young second wife,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63D_sturgeon-point-kennons_Charles-City-VA.html
Kennons originally took its name from the plantation of the Kennon family. Kennons Creek, earlier known as David Jones Creek, served as a boundary for the earlier Wallingford Parish. Kennons Landing was the terminus for the Meadow Road, as well as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63A_kennons-landing_Charles-City-VA.html
Located 1 ½ miles south of the James River is Kennon's Landing. Richard Kennon married Anne Hunt about 1735 and lived there until his death in 1761. Anne Hunt's father was Captain William Hunt whose father William Hunt, a supported of Nathani…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM638_fort-pocahontas_Charles-City-VA.html
South of here, on a bluff overlooking the James River, stands the half-mile-long Fort Pocahontas, built in the spring of 1869 by Union soldiers during the Civil War. The fort protected Union vessels on the river and guarded the landing at Wilson's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM635_sherwood-forest_Charles-City-VA.html
John Tyler purchased this plantation one mile west in his native Charles City in 1842 while serving as tenth president of the United States, and made it his home from 1845 until his death in 1862. Tyler lengthened the wooden 18th-century house to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62T_piney-grove-and-e-a-saunders_Charles-City-VA.html
Eight miles west on "The Old Main Road" is Piney Grove. The original portion, built ca. 1800 on Southall's Plantation, is a rare survival of Tidewater log architecture. Edmund Archer Saunders, a successful Richmond businessman, operated a store at…