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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BEA_t-c-walker-school_Millboro-VA.html
T.C. Walker School, which opened in 1930, was named for Thomas Calhoun Walker a former slave from Gloucester County who became the first African American attorney in Virginia. It cost $4,600, and was underwritten with $500 from the Julius Rosenwal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMX6_life-at-the-tollhouse_Williamsville-VA.html
As early as 1880, the Hodge family was responsible for the management of the Warm Springs Mountain tollhouse. By the end of the tool road's operation in the 1910s, there were ten children living at the house "up on the mountain". Much of the data …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWY_the-virginia-springs-resorts_Williamsville-VA.html
Although turnpikes were built primarily to facilitate trade, many routes within western Virginia were improved to support recreation. Warm Springs Mountain Turnpike provided access to the Warm Springs and Hot Springs area, home of natural mineral …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWH_settlement-on-warm-springs-mountain_Williamsville-VA.html
You are standing on the site of a tollhouse which served the Warm Springs Mountain Turnpike during the nineteenth century. This mountain gap was occupied by humans long before its use as a turnpike tollhouse. Archaeological research at the site in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMW9_the-turnpike-movement-in-virginia-1825-1835_Williamsville-VA.html
The end of the eighteenth century saw Virginia change from an agriculture-based society to one of urban centers. Once British trade restrictions were removed after the War of 1812, river ports such as Alexandria, Fredericksburg, and Richmond began…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKDC_the-county-seat-of-bath_Warm-Springs-VA.html
After 112 years in buildings near the WarmSprings mineral baths a mile northeast, theBath County Court moved to this site in 1908.The architect, Frank P. Milburn, predicted thenew courthouse would be "an honor and ornamentto Bath County for genera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCU_fort-lewis_Millboro-VA.html
Col. Charles Lewis, younger brother of Gen. Andrew Lewis, acquired 950 acres of land on the Cowpasture River in June 1750. Nearby, Fort Lewis, a small stockade, initially under the command of then Capt. Charles Lewis, was constructed by 1756 to gu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKA4_fort-dinwiddie_Warm-Springs-VA.html
Known also as Byrd's Fort and Warwick's Fort. Probably built in 1755, it was visited that year by George Washington.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMED7_terrill-hill_Warm-Springs-VA.html
Nearby is the site of Terrill Hill, home of the Terrill brothers of Bath County. Brig. Gen. William R. Terrill, a graduate of West Point commanded a Union brigade and was killed in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on 8 Oct. 1862. His brother, B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMED6_early-bath-county-courthouses_Warm-Springs-VA.html
Bath County was formed in 1790 from parts of Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier counties. The county court first met here on 10 May 1791 at the house of John Lewis's widow Margaret, who donated two acres opposite the mineral baths for public use. …