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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2I_fredericksburg-normal-and-industrial-institute_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Due to the efforts of local blacks, Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute (FNII) opened in October 1903 at the Shiloh New Site Baptist Church with about 20 students. In 1906 the board of trustees purchased land and a large farmhouse here,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2G_second-town-hall-market-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The building in front of you is the Town Hall / Market House. Completed in 1816, it served as Fredericksburg's governmental center until 1982, making it the second oldest continuously used town hall in the American south. The building was used in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2F_the-market-square_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The space you are standing in is historic Market Square. When Fredericksburg was created in 1728, seven leading landowners in Spotsylvania County were appointed to design the town. The men set aside this block for use by the Anglican Church and th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26_1862-antietam-campaign_Leesburg-VA.html
Fresh from the victory at the Second Battle of ManassasGeneral Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 1-6, 1862,to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25_maryland-antietam-sharpsburg-campaign_Fairfax-VA.html
Following the Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) on 1 Sept. 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee pondered his options and strategy. Encouraged by Confederate victories and Federal disorganization, Lee acted quickly to continue the offensive. On 3 Sept., Lee's Army…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y_battle-of-chantilly-ox-hill_Fairfax-VA.html
On September 1, 1862, Confederate forces under the command of Major General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson moved across and to the southwestern edge of this site to engage Union forces determined to prevent a glancing movement on demoralized Union …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X_lee-chapel-church_Burke-VA.html
On this site stood Lee Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal Church, built 1871 and named in honor of General Robert E. Lee. Lee Chapel replaced Mount Carmel Church which had been located at Ox Road and present day Lee Chapel Road and had been destroyed b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W_sharpsburg-antietam-campaign_Herndon-VA.html
Here Lee entered this road from Ox Hill, September 3, 1862, and turned West toward Leesburg. Crossing the Potomac at White's Ford, the army entered Maryland, September 5-6, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V_action-at-dranesville_Great-Falls-VA.html
Near here two foraging expeditions came in conflict, December 20, 1861. The Union force was commanded by General Ord, the Confederate by J.E.B. Stuart. Stuart attacked in order to protect his foraging parties, but was forced to retire after a shar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R_mitchell-weeks-house_Chantilly-VA.html
This building is a reproduction of a typical "Potomac Valley Farmhouse" built at this location circa 1789 by Benjamin Mitchell. It was one and a half story log house, with a sloping front roof extending over a porch, which in time became a communi…