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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q_african-baptist-church-of-fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) resides on the site once occupied by the African Baptist Church. Constructed as the Fredericksburg Baptist Church, the building was sold to its African-American members in 1857, after the white congregation had…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P_buckland_Gainesville-VA.html
The town of Buckland, named for William Buckland, Architect, was chartered in 1798 with streets and lots on both sides of Broad Run near the mill of John Love. Tranquility, future site of Buckland Hall nearby, was John Love's seat. This property w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O_shiloh-baptist-church-old-site_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Former slaves as well as free blacks realized that education was critical to African-American aspirations. Immediately after the Civil War, the Shiloh Baptist Church organized a school for black students. The Freedmen's Bureau supported this effor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N_religious-liberty_Fredericksburg-VA.html
(Front) From a meeting in Fredericksburg, January 3-17, 1777, of a Committee of Revisors appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia, composed of Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, Edmund Pendleton, George Wythe and Thomas Ludwell Lee to "settle th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M_george-rogers-clark_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In grateful acknowledgement of the valor and the strategic victories of General George Rogers Clark, Son of Old Virginia, the Paul Revere Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Muncie, Indiana, devote this tablet.
No hero of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K_ambush-at-purcellville_Purcellville-VA.html
Crossing this school site, the Loudoun and Berlin Turnpike once intersected the Leesburg & Snicker's Gap Turnpike at a junction just ahead known as Heaton's Crossroads. On Saturday, July 16, 1864, Gen. Jubal A. Early's Confederate army passed thro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I_the-canal-ditch-battlefield-obstacle_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The Rappahannock Canal fed lesser waterways that powered a variety of small industries. One of these secondary drainages branched off from the main canal in this area and became an obstacle to Federal troops during the 1862 battle of Fredericksbur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H_a-canal-defines-its-neighborhood_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The canal in front of you is a section of a navigation system that extended 50 miles up the Rappahannock River. The downstream terminus was a turning basin, in the block to your right. Several industries were established nearby, some that benefit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G_the-canal-ditch_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The post-Civil War street in front of you, Kenmore Avenue, covers a wartime millrace or canal ditch. On December 13, 1862, the ditch became a maddening obstacle to Union soldiers advancing against Marye's Heights. Five feet deep, 15 feet wide, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F_maryes-heights_Fredericksburg-VA.html
A Northern photographer took this picture of Marye's Heights in May 1864, setting up his camera in front of "Federal Hill," a large white house approximately 250 yards to your left-rear. Seventeen months earlier, thousands of Union soldiers caught…