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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z4C_floyd-county-patrick-county_Meadows-of-Dan-VA.html
Floyd County. Area 376 square miles. Formed in 1831 from Montgomery, and added to from Franklin. Named for John Floyd, governor of Virginia, 1830-1834. Buffalo Knob is in this county.
Patrick County. Area 485 square miles. Formed in 1790 from H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z49_meadows-of-dan_Meadows-of-Dan-VA.html
Meadows of Dan. Patrick County is named for a fiddler, Patrick Henry, and is where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Blue Ridge Mountains. Settled in Revolutionary times, it has always been a musical place. Stuart, the county seat, is named for a str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z36_frontier-fort_Spencer-VA.html
About three miles north stood Fort Mayo, commanded by Captain Samuel Harris in 1756 and visited in that year by Washington. This fort was the southernmost of the line of stockade forts built from the Potomac River to North Carolina as a frontier d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VV0_stuart-the-raider-historical_Ararat-VA.html
"Raiding with General Stuart is poor fun and a hard business. Thunder, lighting, rain, storm, mud, nor darkness can stop him when he is on a warm fresh trail of Yankee game." Horse artilleryman George M. Neese's opinion of Stuart following the Cat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VUZ_stuart-the-scout-historical_Ararat-VA.html
He never brought me a "fat" piece information." Robert E. Lee's words, uttered upon his hearing of Stuart's death, were a fitting epitaph for "the eyes of the army." General Joseph E. Johnston, on his transfer to the war's western theater, wrote t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VUY_stuart-the-commander-historical_Ararat-VA.html
Maj. General Stuart's concept of command focused on one word - attack. If the enemy was before him, on his flank, or behind him, he had one response - attack. A saber in its scabbard was useless. It must be drawn and used to strike a blow, and Stu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VUX_stuart-the-leader-historical_Ararat-VA.html
"Jeb never says, 'Go boys,' but always 'Come, boys.'" In writing these words George Cary Eggleston of the 1st Virginia Cavalry summed up his commander's philosophy of leadership. Stuart never sent his men where he could not go and never asked them…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VUW_flora-and-jeb-historical_Ararat-VA.html
"His dear lady did not suffer me to quit the house until I had promised to watch over her husband in the hour of battle." The words of Maj. Heros von Borcke, one of Stuart's most famous staff officers, describe Flora's admonition to him as he and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VU8_historic-roadbed-historical_Claudville-VA.html
The Historical Roadbed that you see before you dates from the earliest colonial times of what is now Patrick County. This road may have been in use as early as the 1750 period. Approximately one thousand feet of this historic road forms the easter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VU7_house-site-historical_Ararat-VA.html
The home of Archibald and Elizabeth Pannill Stuart was constructed on this site c. 1830. It was in this house that their most famous son. James Ewell Brown was born on February 6, 1833. Six other Stuart children would also be born in this house. O…