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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFR6_red-house-and-the-mcdowell-family_Fairfield-VA.html
Nearby once stood a log house painted red built by the McDowell family. John McDowell received land here for surveying Borden's Grant in the late 1730's. In 1742 McDowell was killed during a conflict between settlers and Indians. Dr. Ephraim McDow…
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Near this spotDr. Ephraim McDowellwas born November 11, 1771
The Father of Abdominal SurgeryBeginning medical study in Staunton, Virginia, continuing it in Edinburgh, Scotland, he later received the honorary degree from the University of Maryla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFR0_mcdowells-grave_Fairfield-VA.html
Nearby is the cemetery that contains the grave of Capt. John McDowell, who died on 18 Dec. 1742 during a conflict between Iroquois Indians and colonial settlers. Although accounts differ on how the conflict arose, it resulted in the deaths of more…
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Here was born James McDowell, Governor of Virginia, 1843-46.