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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10E0_hanover-veterans-memorial_Hanover-VA.html
We honor all who served World War IBuchanan, Levy A. · Collins, Robert F. · Duke, William L. · Fleet, William A. · Gallamore, H. · Harper, George T. · Haynes, James A. · Jenkins, Edwin T. ·…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10DR_the-colonial-river-road_Hanover-VA.html
(side 1)The Colonial River Road After centuries of use by native people and the colonists of New Kent County, the road along the Pamunkey River was extended past the tobacco ports of Newcastle and Page's Warehouse (later Hanovertown) to the new…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVY4_scotchtown_Beaverdam-VA.html
Scotchtown is best known as the site from which Patrick Henry rode to Richmond in March of 1775 to deliver his infamous "Liberty or Death" speech. . Some have even suggested that the house, where he had been forced to confine his wife Sarah due to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVW2_cedar-creek-quaker-meeting-house_Montpelier-VA.html
English immigrant Thomas Stanley, born about 1670, championed the right to religious freedom early in the 1700s. Stanley gave nearby land for a Quaker meetinghouse, school, and cemetery. Until the 19th century, the Religious Society of Friends (Qu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVHO_studley_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Only archaeological remnants of Studley survive today, but in the 18th century this was the site of an impressive two-story brick house. Studley was built by John Syme in the 1720s for his wife Sarah Winston. After his death, she married John Henr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH6_totopotomoy-creek_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH5_pine-slash_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Upon Patrick Henry's marriage to Sarah Shelton in 1754, he received for her dowry a 300-acre tract of land and six slaves. Like many Virginians with small farms, Henry labored in the fields with his slaves. Much of the soil at Pine Slash had been …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT36_the-decisive-moment_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"Dashing up the steep bank, being within thirty yards of the enemy's works, we flew towards the breastworks, cleared them, and slaughtered the retreating devils as they scampered up the hill towards their battery." Decimus Barziza, 4th Texas Infan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT34_lees-first-victory-at-a-huge-cost_Mechanicsville-VA.html
"Yesterday evening we was in one of the hardest fought battles ever known. I never had a clear conception of the horrors of war until last night?.In going round that battlefield with a candle searching for friends I could hear on all sides the dre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT33_final-stand_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Civil War artillery was a splendid defensive weapon, particularly when the battlefield landscape offered the gunners open fields of fire. At Gaines' Mill the woods plagued the Union artillery. Several gaps in the trees however, offered a direct li…
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