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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20O1_potters-hill_Alexandria-VA.html
Schools at Potters Hill. Based on picture captions left by early local historians like Edith Sprouse we believe there were at least three different school houses at the intersection of Telegraph and Beulah Roads. We have pictures and some dates f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20O0_the-spy-with-the-glass-eye_Alexandria-VA.html
In early January 1862, Colonel Wade Hampton, with a small detachment of cavalrymen crossed the Occoquan River, and rode towards Pohick Church looking for a fight. After going only a few miles beyond the church on Telegraph Road, it encountered a s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z7J_u-s-army-map-service_Great-Falls-VA.html
Here, at a former Nike missile site, the U.S. Army Map Service established a research station to support geo-location and navigation in 1961. Two years later, the Map Service Initiated a significant satellite tracking program that became part …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0N_mcatees-tavern_Chantilly-VA.html
This building's exterior is a reproduction of a tavern built on this site in 1807 by Harrison McAtee. This location, on a section of the Little River Turnpike that opened in December 1806, was advantageous for farmers conveying goods from western …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0M_sydenstricker-schoolhouse_Springfield-VA.html
In 1897 Barney Deavers deeded land to build Pohick School #8 on this site. The school burned in July 1928 and a new schoolhouse was constructed and opended four months later. Locally known as the Sydenstricker School, it was the last public one-ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y0F_river-crossing-at-conns-ferry-historical_Great-Falls-VA.html
Invasion of Washington City Following the defeat of American militia forces by British regulars at Bladensburg, Maryland on the afternoon of August 24, 1814, a small British force, consisting mainly of officers, marched into the capital city of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X9V_mather-gorge-historical_McLean-VA.html
This mighty chasm, carved by the Potomac River, below Great Falls is dedicated and named in memory of Stephen T. Mather July 4, 1867 - January 22, 1930 With untiring enthusiasm for the National Park Idea, he served as first director of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WL9_william-watters-historical_McLean-VA.html
William Watters (1751-1827) was appointed to a circuit at the first American Methodist Conference in Philadelphia in 1773, making him the first officially appointed American-born Methodist itinerant circuit rider. During the Revolutionary War Amer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJC_chesterbrook-historical_McLean-VA.html
Lincolnville, a farming community that developed along Kirby Road after the Civil War, was renamed Chesterbrook ca. 1897. The "First Colored Baptist Church of Fairfax County" was founded ca. 1866 by Reverend Cyrus Carter. The one-room Chesterbrook…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WHI_the-pines-historical_Annandale-VA.html
At the turn of the 20th century, a close-knit African American community was established here. The Johnson, Robinson, Sprigg and Collins families were the first to purchase lots. They cleared pine trees to enable truck farming and saw mill operati…
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