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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37K_catherine-b-conrad_Winchester-VA.html
1836-1902. This house was built for Kate Conrad in 1889. Member of a prominent Winchester family, she devoted her life to educational and religious activities. She was an administrator for the Slater Trust of Boston, which sought to educate former…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ML_3rd-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
In the late summer of 1864 General Philip H. Sheridan with 41,000 Federals was ordered to take the vital Shenandoah Valley.Opposing this force was a Confederate army of 18,000 under General Jubal A. Early stationed north and east of Winchester. On…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LD_major-general-daniel-morgan_Winchester-VA.html
Fought everywhere, was beaten nowhere.
Major General Daniel Morgan Response Letter to Congress, c. 1798
The Epitaph on Daniel Morgan's original grave marker at this site:Major General Daniel MorganOn July 6th, 1802 in the 67th year of his ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IH_shawnee-springs-hospital_Winchester-VA.html
Clearing and Evacuation FacilityValley Campaigns
Federal medical authorities established the largest temporary hospital of the Civil War in the aftermath of the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM142_glen-burnie_Winchester-VA.html
This historic Shenandoah Valley home, known as Glen Burnie, is the homestead of Col. James Wood, who founded Winchester on a portion of his land in 1744. Wood's son, Robert, began the present house in 1794, but the estate was home to the Wood-Glas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM141_rear-admiral-richard-e-byrd_Winchester-VA.html
Here was born and reared Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator and polar explorer. A 1912 U.S. Navy Academy graduate, he received the Medal of Honor for the first flight over the North Pole in 1926, and made the first commercial nonstop transatlantic fligh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM140_george-washington-in-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
In Mar. 1748, George Washington first visited Winchester, then known as Fredericktown, as a surveyor for Lord Fairfax. Washington purchased property in Winchester in 1753 and was an unsuccessful candidate for a House of Burgesses seat here in 1755…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Z_george-washington-lot_Winchester-VA.html
Site of lot 77 purchased by George Washington May 15, 1753. Sold by his executors on June 17, 1805 to Dr. Robert MacKey, surgeon in the American Revolution.
A blacksmith shop located here made iron work for Fort Loudoun.
The lot was 119 ft. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Y_george-washingtons-out-lot_Winchester-VA.html
Here was located George Washington's five-acre out-lot from Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, by grant of 15 May 1753. Fairfax also granted him a companion in-lot 77 at North Braddock Street and Fairfax Lane. The out-lot was number 16 of 80 i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13X_the-third-battle-of-winchester_Winchester-VA.html
(The Battle of the Opequon)September 19, 1864The decisive assault in the campaign set in motion by General Grant to free the Shenandoah Valley from the control of the Confederacy took place here. This high ground was part of Winchester's defensive…