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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKS_salisbury_Midlothian-VA.html
On this site stood Salisbury, built in the eighteenth century as a hunting lodge. Here Patrick Henry lived during his fourth and fifth term as Governor of Virginia. The Confederate General Edward Johnson lived here in his later years and died here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKR_the-heath-gravity-railroad_Midlothian-VA.html
Some 500 feet beyond this point along both sides of Salisbury Road, roadbed remains of the Heath Gravity Railroad are visible. The railroad ran through this area from 1838 until approximately 1850. It was used to transport coal mined from the Midl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6H_bellona-foundry_Midlothian-VA.html
Gun and gun mold recovered by C. Merle Luck from the James River on August 18, 1962 having been put there during Col. Dahlgren's Raid during the Civil War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO21_winfree-memorial-baptist-church_Midlothian-VA.html
Winfree Memorial Baptist Church, constituted in 1852 as Jerusalem Baptist Church, originally stood to the west on Buckingham Pike. In September 1881, to better serve the coal mining community, the frame structure was rolled here on logs. On 3 Feb.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML31_huguenot-settlement_Midlothian-VA.html
In 1700-1701, Huguenots (French Protestant refugees) settled in this region on land provided to them by the Virginia colony. The Huguenot settlement, known as "Manakin Town" centered at the former site of a Monacan Indian town, located south of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY3_the-huguenot-monument_Midlothian-VA.html
(left panel) Upon this tract of land, the Glebe Farm, and near this site was located the first church of the French Protestant refugees. The present and fourth church erected 1895, and dedicated April 13,1896
(center panel) This memorial erecte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY2_mowhemcho-manakin-town_Midlothian-VA.html
Near here stood the Monacan Indian town of Mowhemcho, noted on John Smith's map of 1612. The Monacan homeland encompassed much of Virginia's Piedmont. In 1670, Indian townspeople welcomed explorer John Lederer's party with celebratory "volleys of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY1_huguenot-settlement_Midlothian-VA.html
Huguenots, the largest single group of French Protestant refugees to come to Virginia, settled near here on the site of a deserted Monacan Indian village during the period 1700-1701. In 1700, the Virginia General Assembly established King William …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIR_bethel-baptist-church_Midlothian-VA.html
In 1799 the local Baptist Society acquired this land and soon built a meetinghouse. The Bethel congregation worshiped in the meetinghouse and was constituted as a church in 1817. About 1820 the members built a brick church here—the first in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIL_union-raid-on-coalfield-station_Midlothian-VA.html
On the first day of Union Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz's second raid (12-17 May 1864) on Confederate railroads around Richmond, 3,000 cavalrymen rode northwest from Bermuda Hundred and passed Chesterfield Court House at 1:00 P.M. Arriving about midn…