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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0M_sydenstricker-schoolhouse_Springfield-VA.html
In 1897 Barney Deavers deeded land to build Pohick School #8 on this site. The school burned in July 1928 and a new schoolhouse was constructed and opended four months later. Locally known as the Sydenstricker School, it was the last public one-ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CQ_ravensworth_Springfield-VA.html
The nearby Ravensworth mansion provided a safe haven for Mrs. Robert E. Lee (Mary Randolph Custis Lee) at the beginning of the Civil War. Constructed about 1796, Ravensworth was the home of Mrs. Lee's widowed aunt, Anna Maria Fitzhugh. The newlywe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP34_orange-and-alexandria-railroad_Springfield-VA.html
Accotink Park Road lies on the right-of-way of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which linked markets in northern and central Virginia. Construction began in March 1850, and the line was extended to Manassas in 1851 and to Gordonsville in March …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCC_springfield-station_Springfield-VA.html
The first Springfield Station was located on the south side of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad near this location. Built after 1851, when the railroad was completed to Henry Daingerfield's "Springfield Farm," the station was the site of a Civil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU_keenes-mill_Springfield-VA.html
A saw and grist mill built by James Keene between 1796 and 1800, when it was expanded, stood on the north side of the original Keene Mill Road right-of-way just to the east of this marker. The mill served the surrounding farm community for approxi…