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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVY_sw-no-9-mile-marker_Arlington-VA.html
Original Federal Boundary Stone District of Columbia 1791Protected byFalls Church Chapter, NSDARDedication 1916? ?Rededication 1989
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19TQ_first-call-for-independence_Cumberland-VA.html
Near this place from the porch of Effingham Tavern on 22 April 1776, Carter Henry Harrison, a member of the Cumberland Committee for Safety, read the Resolutions of Cumberland County to citizens gathered there. These resolutions called for the Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML4N_hamilton-high-school_Cartersville-VA.html
Parents in the Cartersville area of Cumberland County met in 1909 to discuss the need for a centralized high school to replace the one-room schools serving white children in the area at that time. The county Superintendent of Schools led the commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK76_james-f-lipscomb_Farmville-VA.html
James F. Lipscomb was born a free black on 4 December 1830 in Cumberland County. He worked first as a farm laborer, then as a carriage driver in Richmond. In 1867 he returned to Cumberland County, where he accumulated more than 500 acres of land. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK71_needham-law-school_Farmville-VA.html
Just east of here is Needham, location of Virginia's first proprietary law school and home of founder Judge Creed Taylor (1766 - 1836), politician, jurist, and legal educator. Taylor's law school at Needham, which opened in 1821 and closed by 1840…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6B_cumberland-county-prince-edward-county_Farmville-VA.html
(South Side):Cumberland CountyArea 293 square milesFormed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776.
(North Side):Prince …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK63_bizarre_Farmville-VA.html
Near here is the site of Bizarre, owned in 1742 by Richard Randolph of Curles. In 1781, his grandson, John Randolph of Roanoke, took refuge at Bizarre with his mother on account of Arnold's invasion. John Randolph lived here until 1810, when he mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZ4_high-bridge_Farmville-VA.html
From here you can see the 1914 steel railroad bridge that spans the Appomattox River above the brick piers of the antebellum High Bridge, which carried the South Side Railroad. The old wooden bridge and the wagon bridge, just to the east of it, we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDYJ_rosenwald-school-at-cartersville_Cartersville-VA.html
Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., continued the efforts made by numerous philanthropists to bring education to African Americans in the South. During the early 1900s, funding for schools was scarce; the South had half a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDYA_jackson-davis_Cumberland-VA.html
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, was born in Cumberland County, VA, to William Anderson and Sally Wyatt (Guy) Davis on September 25, 1882. He attended the public schools of Richmond, VA, and received his B.A. from t…