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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRL_the-shirley-cemetery_Gainesville-VA.html
This small family cemetery is the final resting place of Richard O. (1802-1857) and Susan (1813-1880) Shirley and possibly several of their six children. Richard Shirley was a farmer and tavern keeper who owned approximately 400 acres of land n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO_rock-fight_Gainesville-VA.html
In Aug. 1862, during the Second Battle of Manassas, Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command occupied an unfinished railroad grade northeast of here, including "the Dump," a gap in the grade heaped with construction stone. On …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNN_bull-run-battlefields_Gainesville-VA.html
Just to the east were fought the two battles of Manassas or Bull Run.
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On 25 Aug. 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson with half of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began a wide flanking march around Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia on the Rappahannock River near Warrenton. Jackson first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P_buckland_Gainesville-VA.html
The town of Buckland, named for William Buckland, Architect, was chartered in 1798 with streets and lots on both sides of Broad Run near the mill of John Love. Tranquility, future site of Buckland Hall nearby, was John Love's seat. This property w…
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