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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM989_fraziers-farm_Henrico-VA.html
Here, the Confederate line of Longstreet's Division crossed this, the Long Bridge Road. Southeasterly one-quarter mile occurred the fiercest encounter, in which the Federal forces under McCall were forced to retire at nightfall June 30, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM983_fraziers-farm_Henrico-VA.html
North and South of this point lay the line of battle in which the Confederate commands of James Longstreet and A.P. Hill engaged indecisively the Federal forces in the Fourth Battle of the Seven Days' Campaign. This spot marks the furthest Federal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM982_fraziers-farm_Henrico-VA.html
Here, on the Charles City Road, the Confederate forces of Major General Benjamin Huger in their attempt to intercept the Federal withdrawal to the James opened with artillery the Battle of Frazier's Farm, June 30, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM981_riddells-shop_Henrico-VA.html
West and Southwest, distant one-half mile lies the Battlefield of Glendale or Frazier's Farm, where the Confederate divisions of Longstreet and A.P. Hill on June 30, 1862, attacked and forced the withdrawal of Federal troops covering McClellan's m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65R_pocahontas_Henrico-VA.html
Matoaka, nicknamed Pocahontas ("playful one"), the daughter of Powhatan, was born about 1595. At age eleven, she befriended Captain John Smith and later visited the English colonists. In 1613 Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas to use her as a nego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65Q_henrico-town_Henrico-VA.html
In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale established the second English settlement in Virginia called Henrico in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King James I. The town was located four miles southwest on a peninsula of high land on the James Riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65O_proposed-first-university-in-english-america_Henrico-VA.html
A "University and College" was authorized by the Virginia Company charter of 1618 at Henrico Town but never opened. Some 10,000 acres on the James River upstream from the new town were to provide agricultural income for the school. The college's m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65L_varina_Henrico-VA.html
The name derives from the resemblance of the tobacco introduced and grown by John Rolfe in 1614 to a variety grown in Varina, Spain. Varina was established as a town in 1680 and became the civil, judicial, and ecclesiastical center of Henrico Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65K_action-at-osbornes_Henrico-VA.html
On 27 April 1781, Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold led the British army's 76th and 80th Regiments, the Queen's Rangers, and some other units in an assault at Osborne's in Chesterfield County. The Americans posted a number of Virginia Navy ships near her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65J_george-thorpe_Henrico-VA.html
On April 3, 1620, The London Company hired George Thorpe to manage the land and tenants for the proposed "university and college" on 11,000 acres on the north bank of the James River above Henrico Town. The agricultural activities of the tenants s…
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