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You are presently standing at the site of Dam No. 1, one of three dams constructed by Confederate commander John Bankhead Magruder to make the sluggish Warwick River into a defensive barrier. Dam No. 1 was the mid-point between two prewar tide mil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6O0_monitor-merrimack_Newport-News-VA.html
Lincoln viewed the March 8, 1862, sinking of the USS Congress and USS Cumberland as the greatest Union calamity since Bull Run. Union Secretary of War Edwin W. Stanton feared that "the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) would soon come up the Potomac and di…
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On March 8, 1862, the day before her epic battle with the U.S.S. Monitor, the Confederate ironclad ram Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) engaged and sank in the James River two powerful Union sailing Ships of War, the U.S.S. Cumberland and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NV_battle-of-lees-mill-dam-number-1_Newport-News-VA.html
A stalwart defense of the Warwick River by units of the 15th North Carolina, 7th Georgia and 2nd Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A., commanded by General J.B. Magruder is commemorated here. The defensive line extending across the Virginia Peninsula was he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NU_aviation-field-yorktown_Newport-News-VA.html
From July 1919 until Aug. 1921, the U.S. Navy operated an aviation training school north of here at what was then known as the U.S. Navy Mine Depot (U.S. Naval Weapons Station). The school provided the first advanced aviation and gunnery operation…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NT_lebanon-church_Newport-News-VA.html
The Campbellite congregation now associated with Lebanon Church was established about 1825. These followers of prominent religious leader Alexander Campbell originally shared the Chishiack "Cheesecake" Church in York County with other denomination…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NS_fort-eustis_Newport-News-VA.html
Fort Eustis is named for a native Virginian, Gen. Abraham Eustis (1786 - 1843), a commander of Fort Monroe. In March 1918, the U.S. government established Camp Abraham Eustis as a coast artillery training center; it was designated a fort in 1923. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NR_mulberry-point_Newport-News-VA.html
Mulberry Point is situated on the James River, on the grounds of present-day Fort Eustis. In 1609-1610, the harsh winter known as the "Starving Time" prompted the surviving colonists at Jamestown to abandon it. They and the recently arrived Lieute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6M4_lee-hall_Newport-News-VA.html
Lee Hall, a stately Italianate plantation dwelling, was built by 1859 for affluent planter Richard Decatur Lee. Confederate generals John Bankhead Magruder and Joseph Eggleston Johnston used the mansion as their headquarters during the April - May…
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The village of Lee Hall, built after the arrival of the C & O Railway in the 1880's, took its name from the fine residence begun in 1848 by Richard Decatur Lee overlooking his extensive Warwick County Plantation. Lee Hall became the headquarters o…