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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJD_a-tale-of-three-structures_New-Kent-VA.html
The core of the main house was built on a half-acre lot about 1810. Nearly doubled in size about 1837, the house underwent further alterations between the 1870s and 1901, by which time it was re-oriented to face the road rather than the courthouse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJC_the-wilson-house-witness-to-three-centuries_New-Kent-VA.html
Edmund Hockaday built the earliest part of this house about 1810. The house was nearly doubled in size in 1830s, with further additions by 1901 and finally in the 1950s.
The house did not remain in one family. It was sold about 1837, again abou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJIR_new-kent-county-james-city-county_Toano-VA.html
(Obverse)New Kent CountyArea 191 Square MilesFormed in 1654 from York, and named for an English county. The White House, where Washington's wife lived, was in this county, and here he married her.
(Reverse)James City CountyArea 164 Square Miles…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHHN_fort-james_Lanexa-VA.html
A mile and a half south of here on the Chickahominy River stood Moysonec, an Indian village. Some of the Chickahominy Indians residing there captured Captain John Smith in 1607. In the wake of the 1644 Indian uprising, the colonists sought to cont…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9D_the-brick-house_West-Point-VA.html
A short distance south stood the Brick House. In 1677, at the end of Bacon's Rebellion, the rebel leaders, Drummond and Lawrence, were at Brick House when West Point surrendered to Berkeley. They fled, Drummond to be caught and executed, Lawrence …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9C_eltham_West-Point-VA.html
Eltham, a mile north, was long the home of the Bassett family and one of the largest and finest colonial houses in Virginia. Burwell Bassett, the owner at the time of the Revolution, was a patriot leader. Washington was a frequent visitor at Eltha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME9B_peninsular-campaign_West-Point-VA.html
A mile north, at Eltham Landing on the Pamunkey River, Franklin's division of McClellan's army disembarked on May 6, 1862. The next morning the Union troops came in contact with the Confederates retiring toward Richmond. The Confederate wagon trai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBM6_john-parke-custis_New-Kent-VA.html
(west face)Born at White House, New Kent County in 1755. Died at Eltham, New Kent County, November 1781, where his body remains.
This marker placed by the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia 1960
(south face)While acting as aide to General Wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBM0_martha-washingtons-birthplace_New-Kent-VA.html
About two miles northeast stood Chestnut Grove, the plantation home of John and Frances Jones Dandridge, where Martha Dandridge, the eldest of eight children, was born on 2 June 1731. She lived there until 15 May 1750, when she married Daniel Park…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBLZ_james-lafayette_New-Kent-VA.html
James Lafayette was born in slavery about 1748 near here. His master William Armistead was commissary of military supplies when in the summer of 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette recruited James as a spy. Posing as a double agent, forager, and servant…