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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U_taylors-tavern_Falls-Church-VA.html
Two-story building with verandahs stood on 56 acres bought in 1856 by Wm. Taylor (part of 1731 271-acre T. Harrison grant). Tavern faced Alexandria-Leesburg Pike west of Junction with Georgetown Road (Wilson Blvd.). Near here on June 24, 1861, bal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18S_miller-argabright-cover-kite-house_Elkton-VA.html
Less than a month after his defeat at Kernstown, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson retired to the Elk Run Valley to rest his troops and plan for the spring campaign. With his men camped all along Elk Run and into Swift Run Gap, Jackson made his h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKB_alexander-spotswood-discovers-the-valley-of-the-shenandoah_Elkton-VA.html
Twelve men I chose to see the waiting land, Where the rivers are jeweled in sunlight, And the hills are a deep blue ocean with living spars Of pine to catch the clouds and spread white sail. My band, Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe, I led upon a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJI_sic-juvat-transcendere-montes_Elkton-VA.html
In honor of Governor Alexander Spotswood and the Knights of the Horseshoe: John Fontaine · Robert Beverley · William Robertson · Dr. Robinson Todd · James Taylor · Robert Brooke · George Mason · Cap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJG_knights-of-the-golden-horseshoe_Elkton-VA.html
On 5 Sept. 1716, in this region, it is believed, Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood and his party of government officials, gentry, Native Americans, soldiers, and servants crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley. Their adv…