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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPS_water-powered-industries_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In 1855, the Fredericksburg Water Power Company adapted the Rappahannock Company's navigation canal to be an industrial power canal. The canal turning basin became a mill pond and several raceways soon branched off to power the Germania Flour Mill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPR_germania-mill-recovering-from-the-civil-war_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In front of you stood the Germania Mill, built in 1866 by Myer and Frederick Brulle. Both men were immigrant German confectioners who teamed up after the Civil War to became millers.
Fredericksburg's upper canal powered this enterprise and Germ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPQ_hydroelectricity-brings-changes-to-fredericksburg_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Desperate for economic growth, following the Civil War, Fredericksburg embraced the technological innovation of hydroelectricity. In 1887, a local firm converted an old grist mill near the Falmouth Bridge to an electric generating plant. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPP_rappahannock-river-heritage-trail_Fredericksburg-VA.html
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Fredericksburg's Lower Canal
The falls of the Rappahannock River powered local industries for more than two centuries. Francis Thornton established the first grist mill around 1720. By 1770, James Hunter operated an iron forge complex i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPO_confederate-and-federal-defenses-in-may-1863_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Heavy fighting erupted in this area on May 3rd and 4th, during the Chancellorsville campaign. On May 3rd, Brigadier General Cadmus M. Wilcox moved several Alabama regiments into the area (1) and confronted Federal forces at this canal (2). When th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPN_virginia-central-railway-trail_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Along the VCR
In 1853, a group of investors incorporated and began to grade a railway route from Fredericksburg to Orange Court House, 37 miles to the west. In Orange, this new railway would connect with a rail line to Gordonsville, Charlottesvil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPM_building-a-railroad-through-a-stream-valley_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In the 1850s, work gangs leveled this railway bed by cutting through hills and filling in valleys. They established culverts where the mounded earth would have otherwise blocked streams. To construct such facilities, they first laid do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPL_the-walker-landram-house_Fredericksburg-VA.html
To your left front is a ravine that leads up from Hazel Run to what was once the 230-acre farmstead of Walker Landram. In 1854, he had sold 6.5 acres on the southern edge of his farm to the railway company, where you are now standing. When the Civ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPJ_the-railway-with-tracks-and-without_Fredericksburg-VA.html
In 1877, the Fredericksburg and Gordonsville Rail Road began operations, with narrow gauge tracks connecting to established railways running through Fredericksburg and Orange. A series of companies tried to make this railroad profitable, inc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPI_virginia-central-railway-trail_Fredericksburg-VA.html
Along the VCR
In 1853, a group of investors incorporated and began to grade a railway route from Fredericksburg to Orange Court House, 37 miles to the west. In Orange, this new railway would connect with a rail line to Gordonsville, Charlottesvil…