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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDV_mount-malady_Richmond-VA.html
Mt. Malady, the first hospital in the American colonies, was built in Coxendale near Henricus in 1612. It had 40 beds for 80 patients! Many colonists arrived in poor health from their long sea voyage. Others acquired diseases, such as dysent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDT_dutch-gap_Richmond-VA.html
1611 Sir Thomas Dale and his men, using a tactic developed in the Dutch Low Country, dug a ditch and erected a fence across the neck of the peninsula for the defense of Henricus.
1864 Federal forces under General Benjamin Butler began construct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDS_the-james-river-floating-through-the-centuries_Richmond-VA.html
Native Americans 1500's
These boats were used by the Powhatan Indians to carry furs, food, and other trading items.
First Settlers 1600's
Shallops were wider and sometimes longer than canoes. They were propelled by oars or by mast. These wide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDI_the-bermuda-hundred-campaign_Richmond-VA.html
This photograph of the Dutch Gap Canal was taken from near this location in 1865. It shows the canal with a dredge boat in the background. The canal was dug in an attempt to bypass Confederate gun positions at Battery Dantzler approximately one mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LU6_a-unique-photograph_Richmond-VA.html
On November 28, 1864, photographer T.C. Roche stood atop the Great Traverse, behind you, and took this remarkable photograph. He produced a rare unposed view of Union and Confederate fighting men in the field, seen together while at war.
A Conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LU5_confederate-counterattack_Richmond-VA.html
General Robert E. Lee deplored the loss of Fort Harrison and made immediate efforts to recapture it. Lee himself accompanied a large body of reinforcements from Petersburg on September 29. The next afternoon he threw five veteran brigades, numberi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK0_first-park-headquarters_Richmond-VA.html
This 1930s photograph shows the headquarters for the Richmond Battlefields Park Corporation. That private organization, composed of Richmond citizens, made the first effort to preserve Civil War battlefields around the city. In 1927 they purchased…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJZ_powder-magazine_Richmond-VA.html
A photographer captured Fort Brady's powder magazine in its prime, with men of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery (note the crossed cannon on one soldier's cap) proudly standing at its entrance. Most Civil War forts stored ammunition and volatile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJY_the-killing-fields_Richmond-VA.html
Approaching from the James River, Union soldiers of Stannard's division suffered their greatest loss in crossing the open ground behind you. Confederate cannon along this wall delivered mighty blasts that knocked horrible holes in the attacking fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJX_grant-under-fire_Henrico-VA.html
General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant hoped that his men could convert their early morning triumph at Fort Harrison into a sweeping and perhaps decisive victory. He arrived here three hours after the fort's capture to assess progress. Confederate arti…