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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1098_chantilly_Fairfax-VA.html
The community of Chantilly, Virginia was named after the Chantilly mansion built by Charles and Cornelia Calvert Stuart on this site about 1817. The name "Chantilly" originated in France with the Ch?teau de Chantilly, just north of Paris. Cornelia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSY3_fairfax-county-courthouse_Fairfax-VA.html
At different times, Union and Confederate forces occupied the Fairfax County Courthouse at this important crossroads. The flag of each side flew from its cupola during the war, and the building suffered damage.On April 25, 1861, the Fairfax Riflem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJNK_fairfax-rosenwald-school_Fairfax-VA.html
The Fairfax Rosenwald School of "Fairfax Colored School" was constructed in 1925-26 on this site. It replaced an earlier African-American school on Main Street east of the Fairfax Cemetery. In 1917, Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJL6_peyton-anderson_Fairfax-VA.html
Payton Anderson of the Rappahannock Cavalry was severely wounded on picket duty 122 ft. N.W. of this spot May 27, 1861.
The first soldier of the South to shed his blood for the Confederacy.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ1I_blenheim-house_Fairfax-VA.html
"... a brick building recently erected and fitted up in handsome style..."Richmand Daily Dispatch, August 9, 1861 In 1855, fire consumed an earlier house on this site. Owner Albert Willcoxon had no insurance; so upon finishing this house—a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH5M_dairy-barn-complex_Fairfax-VA.html
"The outlook for agriculture in Fairfax is dismal."County Agent R.B. Davis, Jr., 1946 Why was Davis so pessimistic? As he wrote, Blenheim owner Marguerite "Daisy" Duras's diary cows were setting production records. Just seven years earlier in 1939…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGDC_historic-blenheim_Fairfax-VA.html
A family farm, a Civil War encampment site, and a country home, Historic Blenheim now welcomes visitors to explore its landscape and many stories.
Over 200 years ago, family patriarch Rezin Willcoxon moved here from Prince Georges County, Maryl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5C_first-confederate-officer-killed_Fairfax-VA.html
In the early morning hours of 1 June 1861, a detachment of Co. B, Second Cavalry, entered the Town of Fairfax Court House and engaged the Warrenton Rifles in the first land conflict of organized military units in the Civil War. The skirmish result…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDWB_blenheim-willcoxon-farm_Fairfax-VA.html
Blenheim, built for Albert and Mary Willcoxon about 1859, contains some of the nation's best-preserved Civil War soldier writings. More than 110 identified Union soldiers, representing units from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, West V…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA5R_the-battle-of-ox-hill_Fairfax-VA.html
(Kiosk Panel): Wounds Suffered at Ox Hill (Chantilly)September 1, 1862
Union Soldiers4th Maine, 2nd Brigade (Birney), Kearny's Division:Pvt. Lorenzo E. Dickey, Co. A, Age 21: At Chantilly, received gunshot would in right thigh. Taken to a field…