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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12E7_battle-of-lewinsville_McLean-VA.html
On September 11, 1861, Lt. Orlando Poe led a party of U.S. Army Topographical Engineers to map the area around Lewinsville for military use. Col. Isaac Stevens and 1,800 men protected the engineers. Stevens's command included the 79th New York (Hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXC3_the-patowmack-canal_McLean-VA.html
The shallow ditch behind this sign marks the bed of the Great Falls portion of the Patowmack Canal. A system of by-passes to provide riverboats easy passage around waterfalls in the Potomac River; it was promoted by George Washington, and built be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSCI_fort-marcy_McLean-VA.html
Civil War Defenses of Washington1861-1865 The earthworks and other visible remnants of Fort Marcy and related batteries still remain. Fort Marcy was built in 1862 to protect the Chain Bridge approach to Washington, D.C.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEA_burling-defenders_McLean-VA.html
On July 16, 1970 — two days after county residents voted to raise their own taxes to buy this land — bulldozers began uprooting trees to replace this forest with 309 houses. The development plan failed because of a fight waged by hundr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDFT_william-whann-mackall_McLean-VA.html
Graduate U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1837, 8th in ClassResigned Commission to serve with Confederate Army May 1861-April 1865Adjutant General to General Albert S. JohnstonCommanded at Island No. 10, taken prisoner, later exchangedCommanded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37V_odricks-corner_McLean-VA.html
In 1872 Alfred Odrick, a former slave and carpenter, purchased 30 acres and built a house on the south side of Lewinsville Road, later intersected by Spring Hill Road to form Odrick's Corner. By 1879 a one-room schoolhouse, Odrick's School, had be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QZ_a-globally-rare-environment_McLean-VA.html
The Potomac River Gorge "In more than twenty-five years of field work, I have not seen another site with a comparable diversity of land forms, plants, and natural communities."-Gary Fleming, Ecologist, Virginia DCR Look around you. Have you …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QY_river-of-change_McLean-VA.html
The Potomac River begins as a small spring near Fairfax Stone, West Virginia. Like a giant funnel it gathers water from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia as it travels 383 miles to the Chesapeake Bay. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FD_auxiliary-battery_McLean-VA.html
An extensive line of rifle trenches connected the advance works of Fort Ethan Allen and Fort Marcy and extended to the west bank of the Potomac River. Auxiliary batteries for the field guns, strategically placed, provided additional strength to af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVA_langley-fork_McLean-VA.html
Two 18th-century roads intersect just west of here: Sugarlands Rolling Road (now Georgetown Pike) and Little Falls Road (now Chain Bridge Road). Several historic structures stand near the fork: Langley Toll House (ca. 1820); Langley Ordinary (ca. …
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