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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJGF_hartshorn-memorial-college_Richmond-VA.html
This stonemarks the site ofeight surrounding acres ofHartshorn Memorial College.Founded in 1883as a Christian Collegefor Negro womenby Joseph C. Hartshorn,of Rhode Island,in memory of his wife,Rachel Thurber.
Lyman Beecher Tefft, A.M., D.D.firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJGE_virginia-union-university_Richmond-VA.html
The result of the merging on this site in 1899 of two institutions founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society as follows:
1865 - Richmond Theological School for Freemen1865 - Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.1932 - Hartshorn Memorial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8I_jacob-house_Richmond-VA.html
In 1817 George Winston built the Jacob House nearby, in the development known as Sydney. Winston (1759-1826), a Quaker who built the first Richmond Friends Meeting House at 19th and Cary Streets about 1798, employed a large number of free black ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8E_samuel-pleasants-parsons-house_Richmond-VA.html
Completed in 1819, 601 Spring Street was the home of Samuel Pleasants Parsons (1783-1842). Parsons, a Quaker, was an early reform-minded superintendent (1816-1822, 1824-1832) of the Virginia State Penitentiary, formerly located across Belvidere St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG56_grace-evelyn-arents_Richmond-VA.html
Grace Evelyn Arents worked tirelessly as an urban reformer and philanthropist to improve the daily life of individuals regardless of race, gender, or class. She developed a church complex that included St. Andrews Episcopal Church, St. Andrew's Sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG1B_john-jasper_Richmond-VA.html
John Jasper was born in a slave cabin on Peachy Plantation in Fluvanna County on July 4, 1812, and lived until 1901. In 1839, while working in a Richmond tobacco factory, he was "annointed by the Holy Ghost" and went on to become a preacher.
On…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDIY_monroe-park_Richmond-VA.html
In 1851 the City of Richmond planned a series of parks including Western Square now known as Monroe Park. In the 1850s it served as grounds for what became the state fair organized by the Virginia State Agricultural Society. During the Civil War i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD2K_stonewall-jackson_Richmond-VA.html
Born 1824
Killed at Chancellorsville
1863
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1H_jefferson-davis_Richmond-VA.html
Jefferson Davis———————-Exponent ofConstitutional Principals
Defender ofthe Rights of States———————-Crescit occulto velutarbor aevo fama
Right of Pedestal:Wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAKP_i-must-save-the-women-of-richmond_Richmond-VA.html
Site of the house in which Maj. Gen'l. J.E.B. Stuart, C.S.A. died May 12, 1864
"I must save the women of Richmond!"
This tablet is placed by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, A.D. 1911