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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21SM_bull-run-mountains-natural-area-preserve_Broad-Run-VA.html
What is a Natural Area Preserve? Established in 1989, Virginia's Natural Area Preserve System protects some of the best examples of natural communities and rare plant and animal habitats in Virginia. The first preserve was dedicated to the syst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKYF_chapmans-mill_Broad-Run-VA.html
Beginning late in 1861, the Confederate Subsistence Department used this mill for a meat curing and distribution center and surrounded it with livestock pens. On March 9, 1862, as the Confederate army evacuated northern Virginia to protect Richmon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM699_free-people-of-color-at-thoroughfare_Broad-Run-VA.html
Families of African-American, Native American, and mixed ancestry migrated here from Fauquier, Culpeper, Rappahannock and Warren Counties after the Civil War. The Allen, Berry, Fletcher, Nickens, and Peyton families, along with former slaves from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K6_thoroughfare-gap_Broad-Run-VA.html
Just west is Thoroughfare Gap where Union and Confederate armies clashed during Civil War. In July 1861, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston marched eastward through the gap to join Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in the First Battle of Manassas. Maj. Gen. Thoma…
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Lee and Longstreet, moving eastward to join Jackson at Manassas, found this gap held by a Union force, August 28, 1862. They forced the gap, after some fighting, and moved on toward Manassas, August 29, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3JL_thoroughfare-gap_Broad-Run-VA.html
The gap to your left between Biscuit Mountain (the northern promontory of Pond Mountain) on the south and Mother Leathercoat Mountain on the north, described as "that dark, gloomy cleft" in an 1862 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, wa…
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