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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8X_windmill-point_White-Stone-VA.html
During the War of 1812, the British blockaded the Chesapeake Bay and sent raiding vessels up the rivers and creeks to plunder and destroy property. The lookout at Windmill Point (about a mile east) on Fleet's Island reported that on 23 April 1814,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8P_ditchley-and-cobbs_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Ditchley, five miles northeast, was patented in 1651 by Colonel Richard Lee. The first house dated from 1687, the present house was built by Kendall Lee in 1752.
Cobbs Hall, near by, was acquired by Richard Lee, probably before 1651. A house w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3O_christ-church-lancaster_Weems-VA.html
Christ Church Lancaster, a singular example of colonial church architecture, was completed circa 1735. This is Robert "King" Carter's legacy to the community. Its simplicity stands as a witness to the importance of the Christian faith to the early…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3F_christ-church_Weems-VA.html
John Carter had the first church built on this site; it was completed in 1670 after his death. In 1730, his son Robert "King" Carter, colonial Virginia's most powerful planter, proposed to build a brick church here at his own expense, which the ve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3C_corotoman_Weems-VA.html
This place was three miles south. Little remains of the house. John Carter obtained patents for a large grant here before 1654, but the place is better known as the home of his son, Robert ("King") Carter. In April 1814, the British, raiding in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG30_first-american-woman-missionary-to-china_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Here was born, October 28, 1817, Henrietta Hall (daughter of Colonel Addison Hall), first American woman missionary to China. She married Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, and was sent with him to China by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, arriving there …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG29_kilmarnock_Kilmarnock-VA.html
Kilmarnock was called "the Crossroads" about 1664, because multiple thoroughfares crossed here. By the middle of the 18th century, the community was named Steptoe's Ordinary for a storehouse and tavern owned by William Steptoe I. About 1775, it be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG16_white-marsh-church_Lancaster-VA.html
This church, founded in 1792, was the mother church of Methodism in the Northern Neck of Virginia. The first camp meeting in this section was held here. Bishops Enoch George and David S. Doggett were members of this church. Bishop Joshua Soule, au…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG15_barford_Lancaster-VA.html
Located one mile south on land lying between the eastern and western branches of the Corotoman River. It is the site of Barford, the dwelling of Captain Thomas Carter who was living there by 1674. A gift from his father-in-law, Edward Dale, the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFY1_queenstown_Lancaster-VA.html
Seven miles southeast on Town Creek near themouth of the Corrotoman River is the site ofQueenstown. The town was created in 1692in accordance with the Act of Ports passedthat year by the Virginia General Assemblyto establish in each county port to…