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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8_the-first-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
The low, marshy ground stretching from here to the distant road lay uncontested through the five-hour artillery duel that opened the First Battle of Kernstown. The scene changed dramatically at 2:00 P.M. when 900 Virginians marched toward this pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS7_potomac-creek-bridge_Fredericksburg-VA.html
The mounds of earth beside you and the stone blocks protruding from it are all that remain of the south abutment of a bridge that once carried the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad across Potomac Creek. During the first year of the Civ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS5_union-redoubt-3_Stafford-VA.html
Established on this spot in February of 1863, by New York troops of the 12th Corps, 2nd Division, Army of the Potomac, Redoubt #3 was manned by up to 100 soldiers and supported by 4 rifled artillery pieces. It guarded the approaches to the Union S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS4_union-redoubt-no-3_Stafford-VA.html
On the ridge to the north stood the third of three large fortifications or redoubts built during February and March of 1863 by the Army of the Potomac. This redoubt protected Aquia Landing and the nearby camps of the Union 12th Corps. The fortific…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS3_the-second-battle-of-kernstown_Winchester-VA.html
Late in the afternoon on July 24, 1864, 1,800 Union soldiers led by Colonel James A. Mulligan fell back to this lane. Major General John B. Gordon's Confederate force attacked from the ground beyond Opequon Church. Mulligan held off Gordon briefly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS1_from-indian-path-to-highway_Stafford-VA.html
In 1664, a colonial road here probably followed the trace of an old Indian path. Two years later, the road was extended to Aquia Creek. It became a post road in 1750, and in Sept. 1781 Gen. George Washington passed over it on the march to Yorktown…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS0_peytons-ordinary_Stafford-VA.html
In this vicinity stood Peyton's Ordinary. George Washington, going to Fredericksburg to visit his mother, dined here, March 6, 1769. On his way to attend the House of Burgesses, he spent the night here, October 31, 1769, and stayed here again on S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRX_in-the-name-of-christ-the-king_Stafford-VA.html
To commemorate the first English Catholic Settlers in Virginia: Colonel Giles Brent, Deputy Governor of Maryland 1643; Margaret and Mary Brent who settled at Aquia 1647; George Brent, King's Attorney General 1686, Member House of Burgesses 1688, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRW_forestville-school_Great-Falls-VA.html
Once the site of a Forestville School, this building has served the citizens of the Great Falls community for a century.
Constructed alongside the Georgetown Pike in 1889, the school consisted of one room until 1911 when a second building, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRU_dumfries-raid_Dumfries-VA.html
On 26 December 1862, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuard led 1,800 cavalry out of Fredericksburg on his third and last major raid. Stuart divided his column and on 27 December launched a two-pronged attack on Dumfries, a major Union supply base. The garriso…