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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10NH_reuben-ford-and-hopeful-baptist-church_Montpelier-VA.html
Hopeful Meeting House began services under the ministry of Baptist pastor Reuben Ford in 1807. Ford played an important role in the post-Revolutionary struggle for religious freedom. In the 1780s, he lobbied the Virginia General Assembly on behalf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVW2_cedar-creek-quaker-meeting-house_Montpelier-VA.html
English immigrant Thomas Stanley, born about 1670, championed the right to religious freedom early in the 1700s. Stanley gave nearby land for a Quaker meetinghouse, school, and cemetery. Until the 19th century, the Religious Society of Friends (Qu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG9C_sycamore-tavern_Montpelier-VA.html
This old tavern was a stagecoach stop on the Mountain Road between Richmond and Charlottesville and it was here that horses were changed. For most of the 19th century, the Higgason, Barlow, and Shelburne families operated a tavern here.
The Tav…