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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1W_fields-of-fire_Vienna-VA.html
On 17 June 1863, early in the Gettysburg Campaign, the Union XII Corps camped just north of here. The men left Fairfax Court House at daybreak, ate breakfast at Hunter's Mill, and halted by 11 AM because of extreme heat, 99 degrees in the shade. D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NNP_hunter-station_Vienna-VA.html
This station was called a flag stop—a passenger would step out and flag down the train to catch a ride.The railroad was owned by the Southern Railway at this time and was operated as a steam railroad. Wires were installed in 1912 when the li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14N9_freedom-hill-redoubt_Tysons-Corner-VA.html
Small batteries called redoubts were constructed during the Civil War as part of the outer defensive lines that encircled Washington, D.C. Late in the war, the one in front of you was built here on Freedom Hill (according to tradition, named for o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJV9_the-springhouse_Vienna-VA.html
In the old days, springhouses did the job ofrefrigerators. This springhouse served theoccupants of the farm from the 18th throughthe early 20th centuries.
It was built directly over the spring andshaded by trees. Cool spring water flowinginto t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIF_terror-by-the-tracks_Vienna-VA.html
On October 18, 1864 Reverend John B. Read, a lay preacher at the Falls Church Baptist Church, was executed in dense pine woods by the railroad bridge here at Piney Branch. Early that morning a contingent of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIE_strategic-junction_Vienna-VA.html
At the beginning of the American Civil War in mid-1861, Union General Irvin McDowell, Commander, Army of Northeastern Virginia, knew that his army lacked an adequate supply of wagons. The Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad (today's W&OD T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGGL_hunter-station_Vienna-VA.html
The 1860 Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad station at this junction was called a flag stop - a passenger would step out and flag down the train to catch a ride.
At the time that the 1900 picture to the left was taken, the railroad was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF0J_crossroads-to-war_Vienna-VA.html
During the Civil War, this junction of Hunter Mill Road and the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad was a vital crossroads as Union and Confederate troops moved along the tracks between Vienna and Leesburg. In Sept. 1862, the Confederate Brig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCV_first-court-house-of-fairfax-county_Tysons-Corner-VA.html
From this spot N. 20? W. 220 ft.stood the First Court Houseof Fairfax CountyBuilt in 1742abandonedbecause Indian hostilitiesabout 1752
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCI_hunters-mill_Vienna-VA.html
For four days in March 1862, the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps camped here. It left Camp Pierpont at Langley on March 10 for Hunter's Mill on orders of Union Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, who had heard that Gen. Jose…