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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FUH_austin-run-pyrite-mine_Stafford-VA.html
Pyrite, an important source of sulfuric acid, was discovered in Stafford in 1902. Mining commenced near Smith Reservoir in 1903 but soon moved south to Garrisonville Road in what is now Hampton Oaks subdivision. The main shaft was 650 feet deep. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FS1_crows-nest-natural-area-preserve-virginias-state-natural-area-preserves_Stafford-VA.html
Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve
Situated on a peninsula located between Accokeek and Potomac creeks in Stafford County, Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve contains extensive mature coastal plain hardwood forests and wetland communities. Much…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FRZ_john-smith-explores-the-chesapeake_Stafford-VA.html
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Captain Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1600s seeking precious metals and a passage to Asia. He traveled the James, Chickahominy, and York rivers in 1607, and led two major expeditions from Jamestown in 1608. Smith and hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FR3_aquia-landing_Stafford-VA.html
Aquia Landing was a significant gateway for enslaved people seeking freedom, including William and Ellen Craft, Henry "Box" Brown, and John Washington. Aquia Landing was the RF&P Railroad terminus from 1842-1872, and the only direct rail…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFW_katherine-harwood-waller-barrett_Stafford-VA.html
Born nearby at Clifton, Katherine Harwood Waller Barrett earned medical and nursing degrees. She devoted her professional life to the care and education of unmarried pregnant women, a group previously treated as outcasts. With philanthropist Charl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2I_german-americans-and-the-eleventh-corps_Stafford-VA.html
A large number of the soldiers who camped in and built the roads and fortifications preserved in this park were German-Americans. Most studies of ethnicity in the Civil War have focused on Irish or African-American soldiers, yet German-Americans w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2H_union-army-double-track-corduroy-road_Stafford-VA.html
At right is the order for a dual-track corduroy road, remains of which can still be seen just beyond this sign. Below are details for construction of corduroy roads as reported earlier in the war by a Union staff officer. Corduroy roads were neede…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2G_quarrying-the-stone_Stafford-VA.html
Background: The same geologic attributes responsible for Stafford's rich deposits of iron ore and other metals, also rendered a unique and eventually much desired type of sandstone called "freestone." As a result, a significant stone quarrying ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2F_the-daniel-bridge_Stafford-VA.html
The Daniel Bridge first appears in county records on a deed map dated 1837. The bridge had three sandstone piers, the remnants of which are still visible today and which likely supported a wood superstructure. The bridge likely took its name from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2E_union-eleventh-corps-artillery_Stafford-VA.html
Eleventh Corps artillery units in 1863 were equipped with 3-inch ordnance rifles and 4.62-inch model 1857 Napoleon cannon often referred to as 12-pounders. Ordnance rifles could fire a solid or hollow 3-inch, iron, buIlet-shaped projectile nearly …