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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24G4_the-home-of-widow-tapp_Spotsylvania-Courthouse-VA.html
In front of you is the site of Catherine Tapp's house, a 1.5-story log cabin surrounded by a corn crib, orchard, and stable. Union and Confederate forces swept past the dwelling, and at one point a Union shell passed through it. When Lt. Col, Theo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L94_secondary-education-for-african-american-children_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The Spotsylvania Sunday School Union (SSSU) was formed in 1905 by 12 African American Baptist churches for the purpose of promoting education past the 7th grade for their children. Initially they helped the growth of the Fredericksburg Normal & In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L93_spotsylvania-sunday-school-union-parksite_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Formerly the John J. Wright Parksite, the renamed Spotsylvania Sunday School Union (SSSU) Parksite is an example of long- standing community partnership and involvement. The parksite comprises 10 acres - a portion of 158.5 acres originally owned b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L92_social-and-economic-richness-in-the-livingston-district_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Spotsylvania is situated almost directly in the middle of a gold-pyrite belt that runs 140 miles through 12 counties from Fairfax to Buckingham. At least six major mines operated in the county, some as early as 1804. Those mines were the Mitchell …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L91_spotsylvanias-first-african-american-church_Spotsylvania-VA.html
History did not record his name . . . the black member of nearby Mine Road Baptist Church who worked as a coachman for one of the white congregants. He asked whether his fellow black church members who sat obediently in the balcony on Sundays coul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8W_batter-up-spotsylvania-yellow-jackets_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Softball and baseball were played by Spotsylvania's African American children, teens and young adults in back yards, on church grounds and in open fields. Some, such as Layton Fairchild, Sr. (right), grew up playing baseball and were privile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JY5_spotsylvanias-war-effort_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The year is 1917. Everybody in Spotsylania County has a brother,relative or friend fighting in Europe. All of America has mobilized its resources to fight and win the Great World War.
Gleaming in the afternoon sun, a year-old rail line runs on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM188D_pennys-tavern-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Nearby stood Penny's (Penney's) Tavern, named for Lincefield Penney who purchased the site in 1811. The tavern catered to travelers making their way to the old Spotsylvania courthouse site (1781-1837), located approximately one mile north of the t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM187W_third-spotsylvania-county-courthouse-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This site was the location of the third Spotsylvania courthouse. In 1722 the first county court session was held at Germanna (now in Orange County) and a courthouse was built soon after. The court was relocated to Fredericksburg in 1732. In 1778 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14FV_lafayette-at-corbins-bridge_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Pursued by British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, the Marquis de Lafayette camped just west of here near Corbin's Bridge on 2 June during the campaign of 1781. Commanding more than 3,000 Continental soldiers and militia, Lafayette sought to move nort…