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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMESM_evolution-of-a-landscape-plantation-prison-park_Lorton-VA.html
Evolution of a Landscape - Plantation, Prison, ParkIt may be difficult to imagine all of the events, large and small, that took place on the surrounding landscape, but Laurel Hill Park has been influenced by thousands of years of human history. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRQ_prices-ordinary_Annandale-VA.html
At the intersection of Backlick and Braddock Roads stood Price's Ordinary, established by David Price about 1773 and remaining in operation until 1802. Price's offered refreshment and shelter for travelers and a common meeting place for local resi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDFT_william-whann-mackall_McLean-VA.html
Graduate U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1837, 8th in ClassResigned Commission to serve with Confederate Army May 1861-April 1865Adjutant General to General Albert S. JohnstonCommanded at Island No. 10, taken prisoner, later exchangedCommanded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCV_first-court-house-of-fairfax-county_Tysons-Corner-VA.html
From this spot N. 20? W. 220 ft.stood the First Court Houseof Fairfax CountyBuilt in 1742abandonedbecause Indian hostilitiesabout 1752
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCI_hunters-mill_Vienna-VA.html
For four days in March 1862, the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps camped here. It left Camp Pierpont at Langley on March 10 for Hunter's Mill on orders of Union Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, who had heard that Gen. Jose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA01_mount-air-historic-site_Lorton-VA.html
Keeping it in the FamilyThe McCarty's who built Mount Air, were an important Virginia family. Dennis McCarty patented the land where you stand in 1727. Dennis McCarty served as Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, a vestryman from Truro Parish and was a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9XL_on-this-site_Centreville-VA.html
Confederate forces constructed this defense bunker in the winter of 1861. The bunker site was chosen due to the relatively high elevation of the Centreville area and it's excellent vantage. Confederate forces held the bunker from the time of its c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9QW_battery-ridge_Centreville-VA.html
Located 40 ft. south of thislocation is the Flagler andForsyth Family Cemetery, 1866.—————Located 80 ft. to the north isa Civil War Fortification, 1861-1862. This was a part of a largemilitary complex that extendedfro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X3_pohick-church_Lorton-VA.html
This building was begun in 1769 and completed by 1774, succeeding an earlier church two miles to the south. It was the Lower Church of Truro Parish, established in 1732, the parish of Mount Vernon and Gunston Hall. George William Fairfax, George W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X2_mount-air_Lorton-VA.html
The original 522~acre plantation was granted to Dennis McCarty in 1727 and passed through the hands of only three additional families: the Chichesters, Landstreets and Kernans. Mount Air represents in microcosm a history of Fairfax county~~the ris…