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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24ED_lee-drive-the-confederate-line_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Lee Drive, the battlefield tour road, runs along five miles of the Confederate line. Along the way you will see the remains of trenches built by Lee's men, a Confederate artillery position on Howison Hill, and the spot where union troops briefly p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM248Q_tactical-terrain_Fredericksburg-VA.html
This rising ground, called Fall Hill, anchored an extensive line of Confederate earthworks. In addition to this trench, there were supporting artillery lunettes on tip of the hill and similar pits to the left and right. These various fortified pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM247R_fall-hill-road_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Four roads radiated from the river town of Fredericksburg. To the south, the Richmond Stage Road coursed across the gentle terrain of the Tidewater region. Two roads reached west, one to Spotsylvania Court House and the other toward Orange Court H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDD_industrial-interlude_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Rappahannock River has been the life blood of Fredericksburg, its velocity feeding five industrial raceways and its flow providing drinking water to three jurisdictions. From around 1770 through 2004, various types of dams diverted part of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U31_the-slave-ship-othello-historical_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Virginia Fredericksburg
Augt 25th 1773
Messrs. Samuel &William Vernon
Gentlemen
You will by this opportunity be advised by Capt. Jno. Duncan of his Arrival here, & valuing himself on Col. John Thornton for his Services in disposal of the Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2Q_no-outlet-historical_Fredericksburg-VA.html
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No Outlet
Smith explored several Chesapeake rivers hoping to find a water passage to the Pacific Ocean. Instead, he discovered that even the longest rivers reached a point—a fall line—where higher ground and rocky waterfa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2P_the-middle-passage-historical_Fredericksburg-VA.html
If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage.
-Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998)
From 1502 to 1860, the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXF_contact-an-industrial-society-confronts-a-native-american-culture-historical_Fredericksburg-VA.html
"They use also long arrows tyed in a line wherewith they shoot at fish in the rivers." —Captain John Smith
In 1608, shortly after Jamestown had been established, Captain John Smith and a small crew worked a vessel up the Rappaha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXE_harnessing-the-rivers-power-historical_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Native Americans came to the falls of the Rappahannock River because seasonal runs of spawning fish provided food. Europeans settled near the falls to take advantage of the river's powerful flow. This area reflects more than a ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPT_a-canal-defines-its-neighborhood_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The canal in front of you, constructed in the 1830s, was part of a navigation system that extended 50 miles up the Rappahannock River. The downstream terminus was a turning basin, in the block to your right. Several industries were located nearby,…