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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V_1862-antietam-campaign_Leesburg-VA.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4T_mile-hill_Leesburg-VA.html
On September 1, 1862, Col. Thomas Munford, commander of the Confederate 2nd Virginia Cavalry (163 men), was ordered to Leesburg to destroy a body of Union Cavalry—the locally raised Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers—who were harassi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Q_morven-park_Leesburg-VA.html
Morven Park was the home of Westmoreland Davis, who as governor of Virginia (1918-1922) created the executive budget system that concentrated state budgeting authority in the governor's hands. Davis bought Morven Park in 1903 and transformed it in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4P_goose-creek-chapel_Leesburg-VA.html
A short distance West is the site of the "Chapel Above Goose Creek", built by the vestry of Truro Parish in 1736. Augustine Washington, father of George Washington, was a member of the vestry at the time. This was the first church on the soil of L…