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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQFU_union-xiith-corps-winter-camp_Stafford-VA.html
In the woods on this hill are the remains of a regimental-sized union infantry winter camp. A New York regiment of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, most likely occupied this camp, the remains clearly visible and run in most cases in lines from the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5L_hangmans-tree_Falls-Church-VA.html
On this site stood the Hangman's Tree According to legend, an old oakused by Col. Mosby to hang Unionspies after the Battle ofThe Peach Orchard during theCivil War. The tree was removed 1968.Marker by the Falls ChruchHistorical Commission…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMON8_on-this-site-in-1862_Falmouth-VA.html
Guard Duty in Falmouth:Eight members of Company "F" 2nd Regt. U.S. Sharpshooters pose for a photograph in front of the O'Bannon House on Caroline St. (current day Butler Road) in Falmouth, Virginia, about May or June of 1862. They are Pictured wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNNQ_the-robertson-quarry_Stafford-VA.html
In the 1800s, the Robertson Quarry was one of many quarries in Stafford County which provided stone for government buildings, private homes, and public buildings, not only in Washington, D.C., but across the nation. The Robertson Quarry, along wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN8X_west-virginia-giles-county-virginia_Glen-Lyn-VA.html
Marker Front:West Virginia was long a part of Virginia. Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727. A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant in 1774. West Virginia became a separate state of the Union in 1863. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMXD_rockbridge-county-augusta-county_Goshen-VA.html
Rockbridge CountyArea 616 Square MilesFormed in 1778 from Augusta and Botetourt, and named for the Natural Bridge. Samuel Houston and Cyrus H. McCormick were born in this county. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried in Lexington. Washing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNA_james-hunter_Falmouth-VA.html
Owner of the famed Hunter Iron Works in Stafford County, which manufactured most of the camp utensils and weapons for the Virginia forces during the Revolutionary War. A true patriot, he received little, if any, compensation.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLN9_freedom-began-here_Falmouth-VA.html
"The soldier assured me that I was now a free man?I never would be a slave no more."- John Washington, a Fredericksburg slave "Our camps are now flooeded with negroes, with packs on their backs and bound for freedom. No system of abolition coul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKVS_the-robertson-towson-house_Stafford-VA.html
When Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol, visited Stafford in 1806, he found on this "beautiful little knoll in the midst of the woods close to his quarry?a log house," the home of quarryman William Robertson. Robertson's quarry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFBB_conway-house_Falmouth-VA.html
Conway House was the home of Moncure Conway who freed himself from the dogmas of his culture and became an abolitionist. He is the only descendent of one of our nation's Founding Fathers to actively lead escaping slaves to freedom, thereby taking …
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