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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTI_pocahontas_Petersburg-VA.html
Positions in the Battle of PetersburgOn 25 April 1781, this part of the community of Pocahontas served as the rear guard staging area for American Major General Frederick von Steuben's Virginia militia in their defense of Petersburg against the in…
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25 April 1781In the late afternoon and evening of 24 April 1781, Virginia militia regiments of Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg's Corps of about 1,000 men marched into Petersburg in order to counter an expected attack by the invading 2,500 man B…
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The first Methodist Meeting House in Petersburg was a theatre on West Old Street near the river rented by Gressett Davis. Robert Williams, a follower of John Wesley, came to Petersburg to preach in 1773 at the invitation of Davis and Nathaniel You…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHA2_the-peabody-williams-school_Petersburg-VA.html
Disrupted by the convulsions of the First World War, efforts to replace the increasingly inadequate Peabody School on Fillmore Street stretched out from 1913 until 1920, when the new Peabody-Williams School opened on Jones Street. Charles Robinson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHA1_earliest-known-public-high-school-for-african-americans-in-virginia_Petersburg-VA.html
Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state's mandate. Colored Elementary School #1 was conducted in the old church building of the African Baptist Church, which stood to your left. The building had been moved…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH9X_virginia-state-university_Petersburg-VA.html
The Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute was chartered on 6 Mar. 1882. The Readjuster Party was instrumental in supporting a state institution of higher education in Virginia for African Americans with some unusual features to the institute's …
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Virginia State University was chartered by the Virginia legislature in 1882 as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. Delegate Alfred W. Harris, an African-American attorney in Petersburg, championed the charter and supported it through the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFIO_petersburg-state-colony-for-the-negro-insane_Petersburg-VA.html
In 1938 the Virginia Assembly chartered a residential care facility for mentally retarded African-American males between 8 and 21 years of age. The Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane, as it was named, was located on the present site of R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDKQ_mckenney-library_Petersburg-VA.html
Petersburg's main public library, the William R. McKenney Library, is housed in a fine dwelling constructed in 1859 by John Dodson, a prominent lawyer and mayor of Petersburg. After the Civil War, the Confederate General and railroad magnate Billy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCX7_mattoax_Petersburg-VA.html
Mattoax was located to the south on the Appomattox River. John Randolph, Sr., built a house there in the 1770s that burned after 1810; it was the boyhood home of his son, John Randolph of Roanoke. Mattoax also was the residence of St. George Tucke…