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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKM_powhatans-chimney_Gloucester-Point-VA.html
According to Gloucester legend this chimney is all that remains of the house built by CaptainJohn Smith for Indian Chief Powhatan in 1609
The collapse of this chimney in an 1888 storm gave impetus to the preservation movement in Virgina Concern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK3Z_woodville-school_West-Bend-VA.html
Woodville School is an important monument to Gloucester County and the African American community who strove to ensure quality education for their children in the early 20th century. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, aided…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OW_tarletons-last-fight_Gloucester-Point-VA.html
Here, at the Hook, Tarleton, commanding the cavalry of Cornwallis's army, fought an action with Choisy's French force and Virginia militia, October 3, 1781. The Duke de Lauzun's cavalry charged Tarleton, who retired to Gloucester Point. There he w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37E_robert-russa-moton_New-Market-VA.html
Robert Russa Moton was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on 26 August 1867, and was educated in a local freeman's school and at Hampton Institute(now Hampton University). He served as an administrator at the institute from 1890 to 1915, when he suc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM353_united-negro-college-fund_Savannah-VA.html
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson founded the United Negro College Fund in 1944. He and the presidents of the member colleges of the Fund began meeting in 1946 at Holly Knoll, the retirement home of the late Robert Russa Moton. Patterson had established …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CC_warner-hall_Front-Royal-VA.html
Three miles east is Warner Hall. The estate was patented about 1650 by Augustine Warner, who built the first house in 1674. Bacon, the rebel, was here for a time in 1676. The later house, built about 1740 and burned in 1849, has been beautifully r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CA_abingdon-church_Yorktown-VA.html
This is the Third Church of Abingdon Parish and was erected in 1755 on the site of an earlier one. The parish, established between 1650 and 1655, had its first church near the river.