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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM161_elk-run-anglican-church-site_Midland-VA.html
Settlers began moving into this region of Fauquier County in the early 1700s. By the 1740s, a wooden church structure served Anglican communicants in Elk Run. It provided pastoral care as well as secular administration for this active frontier com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Z_brent-town_Catlett-VA.html
In 1687, King James II granted 30,000 acres of land here as a sanctuary for Roman Catholics to George Brent, of Stafford County, and London residents Robert Bristow, Richard Foote, and Nicholas Hayward. Brent established a fortified outpost the ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15V_goldvein_Goldvein-VA.html
Thomas Jefferson stated in NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1782) that he found gold bearing rock weighing approximately four pounds near this site. Among the 19 gold mines that have been in operation since then in the area, the Franklin and the Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10F_rappahannock-station_Remington-VA.html
The hamlet of Mill View, present-day Remington, became known as Rappahannock Station to the Civil War armies which campaigned in this area. Here the vital Orange & Alexandria railroad (to your left) crossed the Rappahannock River just behind the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXW_battle-of-coffee-hill-second-battle-of-auburn_Warrenton-VA.html
During the early morning of 14 Oct. 1863, just northwest of here, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and two cavalry brigades, cut off from the Army of Northern Virginia by Federal infantry, attacked Union Brig. Gen. John C. Caldwell's forces as they brewed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX3_neavils-mill_Catlett-VA.html
The Eighteenth Century Mill was operated by George Neavil. It was still in use in 1932, and was restored in 1962 by the Antiquarian Society as a memorial to the early settlers of Fauquier County.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTQ_monroe-park_Goldvein-VA.html
In honor ofH.P. ?Pat' & Thelma MonroeThe original dreamers who generously donated the land for Monroe Park
S.W. Rodgers Co., Inc.The community minded people who moved the earth to form Monroe Park
Ruppert Landscape Co.The visionary landscape…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTG_mosbys-raid-at-catletts-station_Catlett-VA.html
To halt the flow of supplies to Union forces on the Orange & Alexandria R.R., Maj. John S. Mosby, C.S.A., destroyed a train near here on 30 May 1863. Removing a rail to stop the train, Mosby's Rangers disabled the engine with a recently acquired h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTE_stuart-and-mosby_Catlett-VA.html
Here on the evening of August 22, 1862, General J. E. B. Stuart raided General Pope's headquarters. Unable to burn the railroad bridge because of a heavy thunderstorm, Stuart withdrew his troops as well as 300 Federal prisoners and Pope's dispatch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSJ_john-marshalls-birthplace-park_Midland-VA.html
JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the United States, and principal founder of judicial review and of the American system of constitutional law was born in a log cabin just east of here on September 24, 1755. At that time, this location was near Germ…