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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1X_james-pleasants_Crozier-VA.html
James Pleasants was born on 24 Oct. 1769 at his home, Contention, located two miles south. A Quaker, Pleasants served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1796 to 1810, and in 1803 was elected its clerk. He sat in the United States House of Rep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1W_the-1936-virginia-prison-recordings_Maidens-VA.html
In 1936 famed folklorist John A. Lomax visited the Virginia State Prison Farm here and at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. Working for the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Song, Lomax canvassed southern prisons in search of tradit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1U_first-baptist-church_Manakin-Sabot-VA.html
Organized as Dover Mines Church about 1863, First Baptist Church, Manakin is one of the oldest African American churches in Goochland County. Its members separated from Dover Baptist Church. Initially conducting their services at different sites, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1T_william-webber_Manakin-Sabot-VA.html
Three miles north are the home site and grave of William Webber, pastor of Dover Baptist Church, 1773-1808. As an early Baptist leader before the Revolution, he was imprisoned in the jails of Chesterfield and Middlesex. He aided in organizing the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1R_huguenot-settlement_Henrico-VA.html
In 1700-1701, Huguenots (French Protestant refugees) settled in this region on land provided to them by the Virginia colony. The Huguenot settlement, known as "Manakin Town" centered at the former site of a Monacan Indian town, located south of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1K_georges-tavern-crossroads_Goochland-VA.html
In 1792 Captain William George (1760-1827), a veteran of the Revolutionary War, established near this site on River Road an ordinary which stood until about 1900. During the campaign of 1781, General Von Steuben crossed the James River at Cartersv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1J_bolling-island_Goochland-VA.html
Bolling Island mansion, overlooking an island of that name, stands at a bend of the James River to the south. John Bolling purchased the land in 1717. Begun about 1771, the house was completed in the late 1830s by Thomas Bolling, son of Col. Willi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1I_bolling-hall_Goochland-VA.html
Bolling Hall, to the south, was built in the late 18th century for William Bolling on land patented by his grandfather in 1714. Col. Bolling served as a county justice, militia officer, and legislator, and founded a pioneer school there for the ed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1H_dungeness_Goochland-VA.html
Seven miles south once stood Dungeness, built about 1730 by Isham Randolph (1685-1742) who was the grandfather of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and of James Pleasants, Governor of Virginia. Sea captain, merchant and planter, Ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1G_sabot-hill_Manakin-Sabot-VA.html
It was named for Sabot Island, supposed to resemble a wooden shoe. Sabot Hill was the home of James A. Seddon, member of Congress and Confederate Secretary of War, 1862-65, who built the house in 1855. It was visited by Dahlgren in his raid, March…