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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN7D_a-splendid-field-of-battle_Henrico-VA.html
Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew's Run on your left to a similar drop to Western Run on your right. Near…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZJ_fort-johnson_Henrico-VA.html
In the hours following the September 29, 1864, Federal triumph at Fort Harrison, 1,000 yards south of here, Confederate defenses stiffened. Two hundred Georgia infantrymen and Virginia artillerists filled Fort Johnson. Later in the morning they re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZF_surprise-attack_Henrico-VA.html
You are standing where hand-to-hand fighting erupted as Union troops stormed into Fort Harrison on September 29, 1864. On top of the fort's parapet, Gen. Hiram Burnham clutched his chest after receiving a mortal wound. General George J. Stannard's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLM2_ridge-baptist-church-udc-memorial_Henrico-VA.html
April 3, 1953Erected in memory of the Confederate veterans of this locality by the Chesterfield Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The original Ridge Baptist Church building was used as a hospital during the War Between the States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLLT_virginia-home-for-boys_Henrico-VA.html
The Virginia Home for Boys is the oldest boys' home in continuous service in Virginia and the second oldest in the United States. Founded as the Richmond Male Orphan Society on 30 March 1846 for the "maintenance and instruction" of orphaned boys, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLKT_battle-of-glendale_Henrico-VA.html
(sidebar)In April 1862, Union forces under Gen. George B. McClellan began a major campaign to capture Richmond, marching west from Fort Monroe up the Peninsula between the York and James rivers toward the Confederate capital. A Confederate army ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKMS_orapax_Sandston-VA.html
Powhatan, the paramount chief of many Virginia Algonquian tribes when the English first landed at Jamestown, lived near here at the town of Orapax, having moved from Werowocomoco in 1609 following conflicts with the English. The English boy Henry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPR_old-coal-pit-railroad-bed_Henrico-VA.html
This railroad bed carried coal from the Deep Run and Springfield Coal Pits, two miles to the northeast of here, during the nineteenth century. The line ran south for about six miles to the now abandoned Kanawha Canal on the James River. From there…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPQ_tommy-edwards_Henrico-VA.html
Born Thomas Jefferson Edwards here in Henrico County on 15 Oct. 1922, African American singer-songwriter Tommy Edwards composed songs recorded by well-known performers Tony Bennett, Red Foley, Tony Fontane, andLouis Jordan. He recorded for Top and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJMJ_malvern-cliffs_Henrico-VA.html
The view from here illustrates the power of the Union position atop Malvern Hill. Late in the afternoon of July 1, two Confederate brigades attacked across the treeless flat terrain below. Union guns in the Crew yard and elsewhere pounded the Conf…