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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMV_edward-braddock_Hampton-VA.html
(front)Near this monumentdisembarked on February 19, 1755Edward BraddockMajor General and Commander-in-Chiefof all the British forces in America.His coming marked the beginningof an important stage in the warwhich lost to Franceall her extendedAme…
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The Native American village of Kecoughtan stood across the Hampton River in 1607. Soon after the English forcibly removed the inhabitants in 1610, the colonists settled there and the village grew. By the early eighteenth century, the royal customh…
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(front)1861-1865
OurConfderateDead
(rear)Erected byHampton Chapter, No.19Daughters of theConfederacyUnveiled Oct. 29, 1901
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMC_virginia-laydon_Hampton-VA.html
We RememberVirginia Laydon
The First Surviving Child Born in Virginia to English Parents
Member of this Parish
Virginia Laydon was born about 1609, the first child of Anne Burras Laydon and John Layton.
Anne Burras, age 14, came to Jam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMM3_elizabeth-city-parish_Hampton-VA.html
First visited by Englishmen May 10, 1607.Fortified at Old Point by Captain George Percy, October, 1609. Settled by Lord De La Warr, July, 1610; Reinforced by Sir Thomas Dale, May, 1611; The Rev. William Mease being the first minister. Named after …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMLZ_st-johns-church_Hampton-VA.html
The oldest Anglican parish in continuous existence in America. Established in 1610, this is the fourth church built in the parish. It was erected in 1728 in the shape of a Latin cross. Its walls are two feet thick. The bricks are laid in Flemish b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMLY_the-courthouse_Hampton-VA.html
The first Courthouse served Elizabeth City County (one of eight counties established in 1634) and Hampton, the county set. It was probably near the second church site of Elizabeth City Parish now the property of Hampton University. Court buildings…
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"The courthouse, roofless and thoroughly gutted. ? [Its] chimney served oar cooks well in getting supper. The Telegraph tent was soon up and the operator at work on the newly strung wire to Fort Monroe." - Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, March 24, 1862
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When Confederate Gen. John B. Magruder learned that the Federals intended to house troops and escaped slaves in Hampton, he burned down the town. Local soldiers, led by Capt. Jefferson C. Phillips, completed this "loathsome yet patriotic act," on …
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When Capt. Jefferson C. Phillips's Confederate troops set the town of Hampton on fire on the evening of August 7, 1861, a house that stood on this King Street site was one of the many structures destroyed. Archaeology tells the story of its demise…