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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21D1_camp-mont-shenandoah_Millboro-VA.html
Nannie Crump West, Christian missionary and youth advocate, founded Camp Mont Shenandoah in 1927 for girls from Virginia's elite families. This residential summer camp, like others established along the Cowpasture River early in the 20th centu…
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The site was about one-half mile north of the river. This was one of a chain of frontier forts ordered erected by the Virginia legislature early in 1756. The chain extended from Hampshire County (now West Virginia) to Patrick County on the North C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BFZ_millboro_Millboro-VA.html
Millboro began as a settlement around Cady'sTunnel, built by the Central Virginia Railroad.By 1856 the tracks extended from Richmondto Cabin Creek nearby. During the Civil War,Confederate soldiers marched westward downthe old Crooked Spur road; ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BEA_t-c-walker-school_Millboro-VA.html
T.C. Walker School, which opened in 1930, was named for Thomas Calhoun Walker a former slave from Gloucester County who became the first African American attorney in Virginia. It cost $4,600, and was underwritten with $500 from the Julius Rosenwal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCU_fort-lewis_Millboro-VA.html
Col. Charles Lewis, younger brother of Gen. Andrew Lewis, acquired 950 acres of land on the Cowpasture River in June 1750. Nearby, Fort Lewis, a small stockade, initially under the command of then Capt. Charles Lewis, was constructed by 1756 to gu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJA_windy-cove-presbyterian-church_Millboro-VA.html
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, seeking freedom of worship and led by the Rev. Alexander Craighead, built a log meetinghouse a mile and a half down the Cowpasture River about 1749. Indians burned it during the French and Indian War. Moving to this sit…
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