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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7BN_in-memory-of-early-settlers_Williamsburg-VA.html
To the glory of God and in grateful memory of those early settlers, the founders of this Nation who died at Jamestown during the first perilous years of the colony.Their bodies lie along the ridge beyond this cross, in the earliest known burial gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7BK_the-site-of-the-first-landing_Williamsburg-VA.html
The site of the first landing is directly ahead of you in the river. During the years since 1607, the river has eroded about 25 acres of this part of Jamestown Island. The original shoreline was close to the present edge of the river channel, some…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7BH_pocahontas_Williamsburg-VA.html
Erected in 1922, this statue by William Ordway Partridge, honors Pocahontas, the favorite daughter of Paramount Chief Wahunsenacawh (better known as Powhatan), ruler of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom.
Pocahontas was born around 1595, probably …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7BF_captain-john-smith_Williamsburg-VA.html
CaptainJohn SmithGovernor ofVirginia1608
Back of Monument:Erected byThe Association ofthe Preservation ofVirginia Antiquities1907
Lower Plaque:The gift ofMr. & Mrs. Joseph Bryan
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7BE_captain-john-smith_Williamsburg-VA.html
John Smith was born about 1580 the son of a yeoman farmer of modest means. As a young man he traveled throughout Europe and fought as a soldier in the Netherlands and in Hungary. There he was captured, taken to Turkey and sold into slavery in Russ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6SU_fort-magruder_Williamsburg-VA.html
This large redoubt was the center of a defensive line crossing the Peninsula. These earthworks, constructed by the command of General John B. Magruder, were a part of the system of fortifications designed to protect Richmond.
Here on May 5, 186…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6SO_williamsburg-confederate-monument_Williamsburg-VA.html
1861 - 1865 To the Confederate Soldiers andSailors of Williamsburgand James City County.Right of Monument:"Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,lest we forget - lest we forget!"Left of Monument:Erected by the Daughtersof the Confederacy and theCitiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6S7_quarterpath-road_Williamsburg-VA.html
James Bray owned land nearby in Middle Plantation by the 1650s, and Quarterpath Road probably began as a horse path to one of Bray's quarters or farm units. Over the years, the road was improved; it extended to Col. Lewis Burwell's landing on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6S5_magruders-defenses_Williamsburg-VA.html
Here is a redoubt in the line of Confederate defenses, built across the James-York Peninsula in 1861-62 by General John B. Magruder.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RZ_redoubt-1_Williamsburg-VA.html
Because Lt. Col. Benjamin S. Ewell had made little progress on the Williamsburg defenses by late June 1861, Gen. John B. Magruder, commanding the Army of the Peninsula, replaced him with Gen. Lafayette McLaws. Capt. Alfred L. Rives, acting chief o…