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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0K_wards-creek_Spring-Grove-VA.html
Named for John Ward, who patented land here in 1619. The plantation was represented in the first General Assembly, 1619.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFLD_confederate-soldiers-of-prince-george-co_Prince-George-VA.html
Erected by the PrinceGeorge Chapter U.D.C.to the memory of theConfederate Soldiersof Prince George Co.that their heroic deeds,sublime self-sacrificeand undying devotionto duty and country maynever be forgotten.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCFC_prince-george-county-sussex-county_Carson-VA.html
(Obverse)Prince George CountyArea 294 Square MilesFormed in 1702 from Charles City, and named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne. The battles of the crater, 1864, and Fort Steadman, 1865, took place in this county. (Reverse)Sus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCDU_reams-station_Carson-VA.html
Three miles north. There, the Union cavalryman, Kautz, in Wilson's raid, destroyed the station, June 22, 1864. Returning from Burkeville, Kautz reached there again June 29, and was joined by Wilson. Attacked by Hampton, Wilson and Kautz hastily re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBLU_the-cattle-raid_Prince-George-VA.html
Just to the north of the road here, at old Sycamore Church, Wade Hampton, coming from the south, attacked the Union cavalry guarding Grant's beef cattle, September 16, 1864. The Unionists were overpowered; Hampton, rounding up 2,500 beeves, succee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBLT_jordans-point_Prince-George-VA.html
Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBLS_history-at-prince-george-courthouse_Prince-George-VA.html
Lord Cornwallis, going toward the James in pursuit of Lafayette, passed here, May 24, 1781. A part of Grant's army passed here on the way to Petersburg, June, 1864. The place was occupied by Union troops in 1864-65.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBLR_baileys-creek_Prince-George-VA.html
Bailey's Creek is named for Temperance Bailey (ca. 1617-ca. 1652), the daughter of Cicely Bailey and her first husband, whose name is unknown. When he died before Sept. 1620, Temperance inherited 200 acres of land near here at the age of three. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9LB_the-beefsteak-raid_Prince-George-VA.html
As the summer of 1864 ended with Union Gen. U.S. Grant's army still laying siege to Petersburg, Southern sources learned of a large herd of cattle being held at nearby Coggin's Point on the James River. The cattle were grazing at "Beechwood," the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9L9_prince-george-court-house_Prince-George-VA.html
In June 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant began to confine Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia within the Richmond and Petersburg defenses. The South Side R.R., connecting Petersburg and Lynchburg, and the Richmond and Danville R.R. supplied Lee's …
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