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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS80_the-mine-run-campaign_Locust-Grove-VA.html
"The brave officers and men of this division, attacked by a greatly superior force from an admirable position, turned upon him and drove him from the field, which he left strewn with arms, artillery and infantry ammunition, his dead and dying." &m…
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"The promptness with which this unexpected attack was met and repulsed reflects great credit upon General Johnson and the officers and men of his division." — Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA
"The delay in the movements of the Third Corps, and, pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRTI_wreck-at-the-fat-nancy_Orange-VA.html
Here, on 12 July 1888, occurred one of Virginia's largest train disasters, the wreck of the Virginia Midland Railroad's Train 52, the Piedmont Airline. As it crossed the 44-foot-high, 487-foot-long trestle, called the Fat Nancy for a local African…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML88_montpelier-flag-stop_Montpelier-Station-VA.html
Train service first came to Montpelier in 1880 when the rail line from Orange to Charlottesville was completed. After 1910, a Southern Railway station agent managed the freight, passenger, and telegraph operations, and beginning in 1912, served as…
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"We tend to shy away from our past...we should face up to it, live with it, otherwise it will live with you, and haunt you, and distort you, for all your days."John Hope Franklin, historian,Speaking at the Montpelier slave descendants reunion, 200…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML7C_confederate-camp-freedmans-farm-trail_Montpelier-Station-VA.html
After Dolley Madison sold Montpelier in 1844, the estate witnessed many important historic events, few more significant than those of the 1860s. Throughout the winter of 1863 and 1864, as many as 4,500 Confederate troops camped here, part of a def…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5I_montebello_Gordonsville-VA.html
Here was born Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, November 24, 1784. Taylor, commanding an American Army, won the notable Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico, 1847.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5G_barboursville_Barboursville-VA.html
A short distance south are the ruins of Barboursville, built, 1814-1822, by James Barbour partly after plans made by Jefferson. It was burned, December 25, 1884. James Barbour, buried here, was governor of Virginia, 1812-1815, United States Senato…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5F_barboursville-ruins_Barboursville-VA.html
Historic LandmarkDesigned by Thomas Jeffersonfor Governor James Barbour.Built 1814, Destroyed by FireChristmas Day, 1884.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6K_the-campaign-of-1781_Locust-Grove-VA.html
In the campaign of 1781, the Marquis de Lafayette marched through the Wilderness to rendezvous with Brig. Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne. On 3 June 1781, Lafayette's army camped to the south of the Wilderness Bridge across Wilderness Run from Ellwood. T…