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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14Z_organization-of-the-christian-church_Dendron-VA.html
At "Old Lebanon Church" here, the Christian Church was established under the leadership of James O'Kelly, August, 1794. O'Kelly had withdrawn from the Methodist Church, 1792.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14Y_english-settlement-on-grays-creek_Spring-Grove-VA.html
English settlement along Gray's Creek began by 1609 when Capt. John Smith ordered a defensive fortification built on the tidal creek opposite Jamestown. Though the English did not finish construction the fort (known as Smith's Fort) and soon aband…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X_paces-paines_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Nearby to the north, Richard Pace and his family received a land patent in Dec. 1620 establishing Pace's Paines plantation. In response to English expansion into Indian lands, such as occurred at Pace's Paines and elsewhere. Chief Opechancanough p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14W_southwark-parish-churches_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Southwark Parish was established in 1647. To the northeast stood the second Southwark church built by 1673 and abandoned shortly after the American Revolution. To the east, near Bacon's Castle, Southwark Parish vestry completed the Lower Southwark…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14U_glebe-house-of-southwark-parish_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Nearby stands the glebe house of the formerly Anglican Southwark Parish that was built soon after 1724. A glebe was a parcel of land owned by a colonial church and farmed to pay the minister's expenses. This glebe house was used as a parish rector…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14T_wakefield-and-pipsico_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Located five miles to the north is Wakefield. Benjamin Harrison patented this land about 1637. His descendents became major landowners and were influential in Virginia and United States politics. Governor Benjamin Harrison was a signer of the Decl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14S_swanns-point_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Ten miles Northeast is Swann's Point on James River. In 1635 William Swann patented land there. The English Commissioners investigating Bacon's Rebellion met at Swann's point in 1677. William Swann's Tomb, dated 1680 is there.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14Q_smiths-fort-plantation_Surry-VA.html
Captain John Smith began Smith's Fort in 1609, two years after the first permanent English colony in the New World was established at Jamestown. The remains of the fort, a two-foot-high earthwork, constitute the oldest extant structure of English …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14P_history-on-crouchs-creek_Surry-VA.html
Originally called Tappahannock Creek by the English, Crouch's Creek flowed through a number of early English settlements. By 1625 George Sandys had holdings in Surry County, known as Treasurer's Plantation, east of the creek. Sandys was a poet, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14O_chippokes-plantation_Surry-VA.html
This Plantation, four miles to the northeast, was established in 1619 by Captain William Powell of Jamestown. Structures and artifacts on the property reflect plantation life from the early 17th century to the present. Donated to the Commonwealth …