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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRU_dumfries-raid_Dumfries-VA.html
On 26 December 1862, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuard led 1,800 cavalry out of Fredericksburg on his third and last major raid. Stuart divided his column and on 27 December launched a two-pronged attack on Dumfries, a major Union supply base. The garriso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRL_the-shirley-cemetery_Gainesville-VA.html
This small family cemetery is the final resting place of Richard O. (1802-1857) and Susan (1813-1880) Shirley and possibly several of their six children.
Richard Shirley was a farmer and tavern keeper who owned approximately 400 acres of land n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJ_troop-movements-and-camp_Montclair-VA.html
Prince William militia opened a road nearby in preparation for the Yorktown Campaign of 1781. French and American cavalry, wagon trains, and cattle unable to use the ferry at Woodbridge, traveled this road, fording the river at Wolf Run Shoals on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRH_potomac-path_Woodbridge-VA.html
To the east is the only preserved segment of the Potomac Path, the earliest north-south route in northern Virginia. Following an ancient Indian trail, the road, later known as the King's Highway, assumed great importance for overland travel betwee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRE_prince-william-county-stafford-county_Quantico-VA.html
Prince William County, named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and third son of King George II, was officially formed from Stafford and King George Counties in 1731. Manassas was designated the county seat in 1892. Previously the county sea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9_leesylvania-state-park_Woodbridge-VA.html
This 508-acre park was donated to the Commonwealth in 1978 by Daniel K. Ludwig and was opened on June 17, 1989. The park, whose name means "Lee's Woods," is the ancestral home of the famous Lee family of Virginia. The land, which was patented in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8_neabsco-iron-works_Woodbridge-VA.html
Situated along the nearby Neabsco Creek, the Neabsco Iron Works began operation by 1737. Directed by John Tayloe of Richmond County and succeeding family members, the ironworks evolved into a multifaceted antebellum industrial plantation, which in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ2_neabsco-mills-ironworks_Dale-City-VA.html
The Neabsco Mills Ironworks complex, under the ownership of three generations of the Tayloe family, of Richmond County, operated between 1737 and 1828. Located near this site, it was one of the longest continually operating ironworks in present-da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPX_stone-bridge_Centreville-VA.html
From the east side of this stream Union cannon fired the first shots of First Manassas at Confederates on the opposite ridge. The attack was a ruse. Though Stone Bridge offered one of the few easy routes across Bull Run, the main Union columns wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO_rock-fight_Gainesville-VA.html
In Aug. 1862, during the Second Battle of Manassas, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command occupied an unfinished railroad grade northeast of here, including "the Dump," a gap in the grade heaped with construction stone. On …