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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1G_the-boisseau-family-cemetery_Petersburg-VA.html
Many nineteenth-century Virginians buried deceased family members near their homes rather than in distant church yards. While we do not know when this cemetery was established, the only grave marker on this property belonged to Martha Eliza T. Boi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA1F_tobacco-barn_Petersburg-VA.html
Nineteenth-century farmers cut tobacco plants and placed them on sticks to be cured in tobacco barns like this one. Curing, a four-week process, preserves plants by removing moisture, and brings out the aroma and flavor. Farmers in Dinwiddie Count…
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The design of this building is typical of slave quarters built on Virginia plantations during the 1840s and 1850s. Each side provided space for one slave family, with a room downstairs for living and working and a loft for sleeping. The right side…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA18_tudor-hall-barn_Petersburg-VA.html
This building is a reproduction of a nineteenth-century barn located in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. Tidewater and Piedmont farmers constructed numerous small, inexpensive barns to support their work. Virginia's mild climate made it unnecessar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA17_tudor-hall_Petersburg-VA.html
William Boisseau, a tobacco farmer, constructed Tudor Hall around 1812. Originally two rooms wide and one room deep, this style of house was popular in Dinwiddie County during the late 1700s and early 1800s. In the 1850s Joseph G. Boisseau, Willia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA14_the-big-house_Petersburg-VA.html
This landscape re-creates elements of a typical Southside Virginia plantation during the mid-nineteenth century. Tudor Hall, an original nineteenth-century building, was at the center of a farm that supported the owner, his family, and their slave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0W_after-the-breakthrough-april-2-1865_Petersburg-VA.html
Following their breakthrough near the Boisseau and Hart Farms, Federal soldiers of Major General Horatio G. Wright's Sixth Corps poured over the earthworks southwest of Petersburg and into the Confederate rear. Some Federals penetrated as far as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0V_field-fortifications_Petersburg-VA.html
Pamplin Historical Park has created these replica earthworks to suggest how this area might have looked during the winter of 1864-65. Both armies at Petersburg constructed long lines of field fortifications. Engineer officers used standard manuals…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0S_confederate-winter-quarters_Petersburg-VA.html
Brigadier General Samuel McGowan's South Carolina Brigade spent the winter of 1864-1865 very close to the fortifications they defended. A temporary scarcity of building materials in the early winter compelled many of McGowan's men to rely on their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA0N_battlefield-terrain_Petersburg-VA.html
This bridge spans a small branch of Arthur's Swamp. The ravine created by this streamlet had important consequences for both the defending Confederates and the attacking Union troops. The earthen mounds immediately in front of you are the remai…
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