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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM146_colonel-john-singleton-mosby_Chantilly-VA.html
This road, along which many of his skirmishes took place, is named for Colonel John Singleton Mosby, commander of the 43rd Battalion of Confederate Partisan Rangers. Their activities in this area helped keep the Confederate cause alive in Northern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVS_the-beehive-brick-kiln_Lorton-VA.html
From the turn of the century until the late 1960's nine kilns on this site were operated by inmates of the Lorton correctional facility. The bricks stacked inside this kiln are ready to be baked. For 4 to 5 days coal fires in each of the hearth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVP_women-suffrage-prisoners-at-occoquan-workhouse_Lorton-VA.html
Adjacent to this park a group of women was imprisoned in 1917 for demanding the right to vote. The road to Occoquan Workhouse had started in 1848. In July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, officially opening the American women's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVD_defenses-of-washington_Belle-Haven-VA.html
During the Civil War, the U.S. Army constructed a series of forts and artillery batteries around Washington to protect it from Confederate attack. Forts O'Rourke, Weed, Farnsworth, and Lyon stood just to the north, and Fort Willard which still exi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVA_langley-fork_McLean-VA.html
Two 18th-century roads intersect just west of here: Sugarlands Rolling Road (now Georgetown Pike) and Little Falls Road (now Chain Bridge Road). Several historic structures stand near the fork: Langley Toll House (ca. 1820); Langley Ordinary (ca. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRW_forestville-school_Great-Falls-VA.html
Once the site of a Forestville School, this building has served the citizens of the Great Falls community for a century. Constructed alongside the Georgetown Pike in 1889, the school consisted of one room until 1911 when a second building, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRT_frying-pan-meeting-house_Herndon-VA.html
The Frying Pan Meeting House, constructed by 1791 on land donated by the Carter family in 1783, was used for Baptist services until 1968. Named for nearby Frying Pan Branch, the church is a rare example of 18th-Century architecture in western Fair…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRN_the-sully-farms_Chantilly-VA.html
At the time of the Civil War, the farms of Sully and Little Sully (no longer standing) were the homes of the Barlow and Haight families respectively. These families, connected by marriage, had come to Virginia from Dutchess County, New York, and f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRI_mosbys-rock_Herndon-VA.html
The large boulder, located just south of here, served as an important landmark during the Civil War, when Col. John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers (43d Battalion, Virginia Cavalry) assembled there to raid Union outposts, communications, and supply li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRG_cartersville-baptist-church_Vienna-VA.html
According to tradition, free African-Americans established a religious congregation, which met in private homes, in this area as early as 1863. Rose Carter, a member of the community, donated land for a church in 1903. The church served the reside…