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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAGT_battery-dantzler_Chester-VA.html
In 1862, Confederate authorities considered locating the main defensive James River battery here to block the Union navy's approach to Richmond. They chose Drewry's Bluff instead because they feared that Union forces would bypass this position by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7NB_port-walthall_Chester-VA.html
Port Walthall, which stood on the banks of the Appomattox River several miles to the south, was a major shipping and passenger embarkation point prior to the Civil War. The railroad tracks leading to the port were melted down to manufacture Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7N8_point-of-rocks_Chester-VA.html
Point of Rocks is located two miles south on the Appomattox River. In 1608, Captain John Smith wrote abut this high rock cliff which projected out to the channel of the river. Known to all as Point of Rocks, it was severely damaged during a battle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7J6_mary-randolph_Chester-VA.html
Mary Randolph, a native of Chesterfield County and author of the first American regional cookbook, lived nearby at Presquile Plantation during the last two decades of the 18th century after her marriage to David Meade Randolph in 1782. The couple …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IR_bermuda-hundred_Chester-VA.html
A mile north, on the site of an important Appamatuck Indian village, Sir Thomas Dale established Bermuda Hundred in 1613. The hundred was a traditional English jurisdiction of one hundred families. Dale, the deputy governor and marshal of Virginia…