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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DUS_original-west-corner-stone_Falls-Church-VA.html
Original West Corner StoneDistrict of Columbia 1791 - 1792Dedication 1952Rededication 1989Falls Church Chapter, NSDAR
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D9V_harriet-and-george-brice_Falls-Church-VA.html
You are standing across the street from land that Harriet Brice, a "free woman of color," purchased in 1864. Together with her husband, George Brice, she struggled to farm the property during the Civil War. Although we had gained her freedom somet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D99_the-falls-church_Falls-Church-VA.html
The Civil War dramatically affected this 1769 Anglican/Episcopal church that stands before you. The congregation disbanded as the war broke out, with some families fleeing the village. Confederate forces occupied the church in August and September…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFW_katherine-harwood-waller-barrett_Stafford-VA.html
Born nearby at Clifton, Katherine Harwood Waller Barrett earned medical and nursing degrees. She devoted her professional life to the care and education of unmarried pregnant women, a group previously treated as outcasts. With philanthropist Charl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2I_german-americans-and-the-eleventh-corps_Stafford-VA.html
A large number of the soldiers who camped in and built the roads and fortifications preserved in this park were German-Americans. Most studies of ethnicity in the Civil War have focused on Irish or African-American soldiers, yet German-Americans w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2H_union-army-double-track-corduroy-road_Stafford-VA.html
At right is the order for a dual-track corduroy road, remains of which can still be seen just beyond this sign. Below are details for construction of corduroy roads as reported earlier in the war by a Union staff officer. Corduroy roads were neede…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2G_quarrying-the-stone_Stafford-VA.html
Background: The same geologic attributes responsible for Stafford's rich deposits of iron ore and other metals, also rendered a unique and eventually much desired type of sandstone called "freestone." As a result, a significant stone quarrying ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2F_the-daniel-bridge_Stafford-VA.html
The Daniel Bridge first appears in county records on a deed map dated 1837. The bridge had three sandstone piers, the remnants of which are still visible today and which likely supported a wood superstructure. The bridge likely took its name from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2E_union-eleventh-corps-artillery_Stafford-VA.html
Eleventh Corps artillery units in 1863 were equipped with 3-inch ordnance rifles and 4.62-inch model 1857 Napoleon cannon often referred to as 12-pounders. Ordnance rifles could fire a solid or hollow 3-inch, iron, buIlet-shaped projectile nearly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2D_union-batteries-at-accokeek-creek_Stafford-VA.html
By late May 1863 Major-General Joseph Hooker, likely concerned over a possible attack to cut off or capture his supply depot at Aquia Landing, adjusted his lines. Four additional batteries were built in the 11th Corps area south of the Accokeek. T…