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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBIW_golden-ball-tavern_Petersburg-VA.html
Here stood a dwelling house, constructed about 1764 by prosperous tobacco merchant, Richard Hanson, who, as a fervent Loyalist, fled Virginia in 1776. During the latter part of the Revolution, the structure became known as the Golden Ball Tavern. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBIT_folly-castle_Petersburg-VA.html
This house was the town home of Peter Jones, who built it in 1763. It was called "Folly Castle" because it was a large house for a childless man, but Jones later had offspring. Major Erasmus Gill, Revolutionary soldier, also lived here.
Virgini…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBI5_battle-of-the-crater-covered-way_Petersburg-VA.html
At this place located by participants in the Battle of the Crater, this road, known as the Jerusalem Plank Road, was crossed by a covered way leading eastwardly to the ravine in rear of the Confederate breastworks which run northwardly from the Cr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBHG_two-noted-homes_Petersburg-VA.html
Half a block south is the home of Major General William Mahone, famed for his gallant conduct at the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864. Two blocks south is the Wallace Home, where Abraham Lincoln conferred with General Grant, April 3, 1865, prec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBHB_edge-hill_Petersburg-VA.html
To the north stood William Turnbull's house, Edge Hill, headquarters of Gen. Robert E. Lee from 23 Nov. 1864 to 2 Apr. 1865 during the siege of Petersburg. Here, after dawn on 2 Apr., Lee learned of the Union attack that soon shattered his lines a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBH9_general-lees-headquarters_Petersburg-VA.html
Three blocks north and a half a block west is the Beasley House where General Robert E. Lee had his second headquarters in 1864 during the siege of Petersburg. He moved thence to Edge Hill to be in closer touch with his right wing.
Virginia Con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB6U_bollingbrook-hotel_Petersburg-VA.html
After a fire destroyed John Niblo's tavern in 1827, Niblo assembled a group of investors who constructed on this site in 1828 the three-story Bollingbrook Hotel, attributed to Otis Manson. The hotel became known as "one of the best taverns in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAFG_joseph-jenkins-roberts_Petersburg-VA.html
[Southwest face:]Resident of Petersburg 1815-1829
First President of the Republic of Liberia1848-1855 + 1871-1876[Northeast face:]
Joseph Jenkins Roberts worked on Union Street, about 100 yards northwest of here.This marker was authorized J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1L_tudor-hall-field-quarter_Petersburg-VA.html
The environment in front of you recreates elements of a plantation Field Quarter of the 1800s. The slaves who provided agricultural labor on farms like Tudor Hall lived in areas like this in the years before the Civil War.
The first slave dwell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1H_kitchen-garden_Petersburg-VA.html
A nineteenth-century kitchen garden of one acre, about the size of a football field, could be maintained by one person and provide produce for 10-15 people. The management of the kitchen garden generally fell to the women of the household. The pla…