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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/HM1FJ_early-settlement_Champlain-VA.html
Two miles east near the river, Richard Coleman planted a frontier settlement and trading post in 1652. By 1660 a church was built, to which every man was required to come armed for protection against the Indians.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FI_old-rappahannock-courthouse_Tappahannock-VA.html
About half a mile northeast stood the old courthouse and clerk's office of Rappahannock County, 1665-1693. To this courthouse Thomas Goodrich and Benjamin Goodrich, ordered to appear with halters around their necks, came to express their penitence…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FH_gouldborough-plantation_Tappahannock-VA.html
Just east of here was the seat of the Waring family, members of which served the colony and our fledgling nation in elected and appointed offices and as officers in the county militia and the Continental Line. Thomas Waring II (ca. 1690-1754), Bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FG_rappahannock-indian-migration_Caret-VA.html
West of here, on the ridge between the Mattaponi and Rappahannock Rivers, the Rappahannock Indians built a fort to defend themselves from hostile settlers and other Indians during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. An order of the colonial Virginia Counci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FF_fort-lowry-camp-byron_Dunnsville-VA.html
Located two miles N.E. on Rappahannock River at Lowry's Point was a Confederate eight gun "water battery" constructed in 1861. Here at Dunnsville was located Camp Byron, home of Company F (Essex Light Dragoons), Ninth Cavalry, C.S.A.; the company …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FE_mann-meeting-house_Center-Cross-VA.html
Just to the East stood Mann Meeting House, the first Methodist Episcopal Church in this region. It was built before 1794 and abandoned about 1880. The site is now occupied by the Macedonia Colored Baptist Church.