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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEHC_clays-birthplace_Hanover-VA.html
Three miles northwest is Clay Spring, where Henry Clay was born, April 12, 1777. He passed most of his early life in Richmond, removing to Kentucky in 1797. His career as a public man and as a peacemaker between North and South is an important par…
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(obverse)Caroline CountyArea 529 Square Miles
Formed in 1727 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William. Named for Queen Caroline, wife of King George II. George Rogers Clark, conqueror of the Northwest, passed his youth in this county.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAL1_hanover-confederate-soldiers-monument_Hanover-VA.html
Hanoverto herConfederate Soldiersand to herNoble Womenwho loved them1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMABV_newmarket_Hanover-VA.html
Newmarket stood on the Little River near Verdon in northern Hanover County until 1987, when to preserve it Robert W. Cabaniss moved it to this site. The seat of the Doswell family for whom the town of Doswell was named, the house is the sole survi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAB7_nelsons-crossing_Hanover-VA.html
Federal infantry left the camps around Mangohick Church on the morning of May 28, 1864, and pressed southward toward the Pamunkey River. In order to speed up the pace of the march, the army followed parallel routes. The Second and Sixth Corps move…
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This community's first real taste of war came in May 1862, when Gen. George B. McC1e11an's Union army moved from the east to threaten Richmond. On May 25, McClellan ordered troops to reconnoiter the Hanover Courthouse area and push back any enemy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37W_gabriels-rebellion_Hanover-VA.html
On 24 Aug. 1800, slave Ben Woolfolk met with other slaves at nearby Littlepage's Bridge to recruit individuals for an insurrection planned for 30 Aug. The insurgents led by Gabriel, a slave owned by Thomas Henry Prosser of Henrico County, intended…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML3_cornwalliss-route_Hanover-VA.html
Lord Cornwallis, marching northward in pursuit of Lafayette's American force, camped near here, May 30, 1781. He entered this road from the east on his way from Hanover Town to the North Anna at Chesterfield Ford (Telegraph Bridge).
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML2_john-henry-smyth_Hanover-VA.html
(14 July 1844-5 Sept. 1908)Born in Richmond, Va., to a free black mother and enslaved father, John Henry Smyth graduated from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., in 1872 and worked variously as a teacher, bank cashier, lawyer, and ne…