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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFO2_rocketts-landing_Richmond-VA.html
Rocketts, or Rocketts Landing, is the river frontage of the community, named for Robert Rockett who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of small houses a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFO1_confederate-navy-yard_Richmond-VA.html
Begun in 1862, the Confederate Navy Yard occupied both banks of the James River, including the community and port of Rocketts Landing on the north bank. The Yard was the base, construction site, and headquarters for the James River Squadron, comma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDNN_john-marshalls-farm_Richmond-VA.html
Near this location stood Chickahominy Farm, the country residence of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. Spending weekends at the farm with his wife, Marshall wrote that farming provided many hours of "laborious relaxation." Born in 1775, Marshall f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAPQ_strengthen-the-arm-of-liberty_Richmond-VA.html
With the faith and courage oftheir forefathers who madepossible the freedom of theseUnited Statesthe Boy Scouts of Americadedicated this copy of theStatue of Liberty as a pledgeof everlasting fidelity andloyalty40th anniversary crusade toStrengthe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAMY_to-honor_Richmond-VA.html
To honorthe Confederate Soldierswho in defense of Richmondgave their lives on the Battlefieldsof Henrico County1861 - 1865
Placed by Lee Chapter No. 123United Daughters of the Confederacy1948
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAMX_city-of-richmond-bicentennial_Richmond-VA.html
On July 2, 1782, the people of Richmond gathered near this site to elect twelve citizens and constitute their first city government, known as the Common Hall. The next day, the Richmond Common Council held its first meeting on the same site and el…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAL3_confederate-soldiers-sailors-monument_Richmond-VA.html
Erected by theConfederate Soldiers & SailorsMonument AssociationAnno Domini 1887-1894.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAJ3_the-view-that-named-the-city_Richmond-VA.html
The curve of the James River and steep slope on this side of are very much like the features of the River Thames in England, at a royal village west of London called Richmond upon Thames.
William Byrd II, an important planter, merchant, politic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAJ2_richmond_Richmond-VA.html
William Byrd II of Westover, owner of the land aroundthe falls of the James River, wrote in his diary onSeptember 19, 1733:
?we laid the foundations of two large Citys. One at Shacco's, to be called Richmond and the other at the point of Appama…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAI6_powhatan-stone_Richmond-VA.html
An old Indian stone removed from and now overlooking "Powhatan Seat" a royal residence of King Powhatan when Captain John Smith and his fellow "Adventurers" made the first permanent English settlement in this country at Jamestown, Virginia 1607.
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