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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSI_john-marshalls-birthplace_Midland-VA.html
Near this spot on September 4, 1755 was born John Marshall, Fourth Chief Justice of the United States.
This marker erected by Marshall Inn of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, 1928.
A marker erected by Marshall Chapter of Phi Delta Phi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHT_john-marshalls-birthplace_Midland-VA.html
About one half mile southeast, just across the railroad, a stone marks the site of the birthplace, September 24, 1755. He died at Philadelphia, July 6, 1835. Revolutionary office, Congressman, Secretary of State, he is immortal as Chief Justice of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH5_german-town_Midland-VA.html
About 1719, five years after they immigrated to Germanna in present-day Orange Co., twelve German families moved here as lot owners of 1,805 acres on Licking Run claimed a year earlier by their trustees, John Fishback, John Hoffman, and Jacob Holt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC5_upperville_Upperville-VA.html
This site, known during the war as Vineyard Hill, commands a clear view of the road, stone walls, and fields in front of you where 10,000 cavalry and infantry clashed in the Battle of Upperville on June 21, 1863. It was the fifth day of attack and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAA_battle-of-middleburg_Middleburg-VA.html
Here, on 19 June 1863, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry fought Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg's Union cavalry division. Screening the march of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley to invade Pennsylvania, Stuart …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA9_welbourne_Marshall-VA.html
One mile northwest stands Welbourne (ca. 1770), which has housed members of the same family since the 1830s. It is a significant example of a late-18th-century stone farmhouse that evolved into an imposing mansion. Welbourne was the home of Col. R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA7_mosbys-rangers_Marshall-VA.html
Here at Atoka (Rector's Crossroads) on June 10, 1863, Company "A", 43rd Battalion of Partisan Rangers, known as "Mosby's Rangers", was formally organized. James William Foster was elected Captain; Thomas Turner, First Lieutenant; W. L. Hunter, Sec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8W_jacksons-bivouac_Paris-VA.html
After a day's march from Winchester on 19-20 July 1861, Brig. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson halted his lead brigade of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Valley army near here. At 2:00 A.M. his 2,500 men sank down to rest. When told that no sentries h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8V_lees-bivouac-gettysburg-campaign_Markham-VA.html
Gen. Robert E. Lee established his headquarters here on the evening of 17 June 1863 as the Army of Northern Virginia marched north. Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, who had replaced Stonewall Jackson as corps commander after Jackson's death on 10 May, h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8U_brig-gen-turner-ashby-c-s-a_Markham-VA.html
Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander during the brilliant 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, was born on 23 Oct. 1828 just north at Rose Bank. From 1853 to 1858, Ashby operated a mercantile business in a large frame building just to t…