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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIU_vinyard-fight_Boyce-VA.html
Vinyard Fight Gold's FarmDec. 16, 1864Mosby & US Cavalry——
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIS_long-branch_Boyce-VA.html
This Classical Revival mansion built for Robert Carter Burwell is one of the few remaining residential works in which B. Henry Latrobe, father of the American architectural profession, played a role in design. Latrobe offered suggestions to Burwel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIR_fight-at-golds-farm_Berryville-VA.html
Fight at Gold's FarmSept. 3, 1864Mosby & 6th N.Y. Cavalry
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQ_the-briars_Boyce-VA.html
Two and a half miles to the northwest stands The Briars, as stuccoed stone, two-story, five-bay dwelling that was constructed around 1819 as the home of Dr. Robert Powell Page. His daughter, Mary Francis Page, married John Esten Cooke, noted Virgi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIP_town-of-boyce_Boyce-VA.html
Boyce was established in 1880 at the intersection of the newly constructed Shenandoah Valley Railroad (now Norfolk Southern) and the road between the Shenandoah River and Winchester (formerly the Winchester and Berry's Ferry Turnpike). First known…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIO_saratoga_Boyce-VA.html
A half-mile east, Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan began this limestone Georgian mansion in 1779 while on furlough. He named it for the Battle of Saratoga in which he had recently distinguished himself. The house was probably constructed by He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIN_blandy-experimental-farm_Boyce-VA.html
In 1926, Graham F. Blandy bequeathed a 712-acre portion of his estate, The Tuleyries, to the University of Virginia to educate "boys farming in the various branches." Beginning late in the 1920s, the two-story, century-old brick slave quarters was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIM_berryville_Berryville-VA.html
Before 1798 Berryville was known as Battletown, a name that perhaps originated from a local tavern famous for its fistfights. The General assembly incorporated the town of Berryville on 15 Jan. 1798. Located at a major crossroads of the Shenandoah…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIL_benjamin-berry_Berryville-VA.html
——1720(?)-1810—— Benjamin Berry, son of Henry Berry of King George County, settled in what is now Clarke County prior to the Revolution, and in 1798, he procured the formal establishment of the town of Berryville, the town …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIH_josephine-city_Berryville-VA.html
To improve the lives of former slaves, Ellen McCormick, widow of Edward McCormick of Clermont, established this African American community of 31 one-acre lots early in the 1870s. The lots, laid out on either side of the 16-foot-wide street that or…
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