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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VF_red-rock-wilderness-overlook-regional-park_Leesburg-VA.html
Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Regional Park is a 67-acre mostly wooded area situated along the Potomac River on the outskirts of Leesburg. Frances Speek donated a portion of the property to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority in 1978. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UD_douglass-high-school_Leesburg-VA.html
has been registered as aVirginia Historic Landmarkby theVirginia Department of Conservationand Historic Resources
Throughout much of Virginia in the early 1900s, black parents were pressing the then system of racial segregation for improved edu…
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Before the construction of this high school, there were no schools beyond 7th grade for black students in Loudoun County. Late in the 1930s, the parent-teacher associations of various black schools formed the County-Wide League to raise money to b…
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(Left Side Plaque): George Catlett Marshall(1880-1959)Born Union Town, Pennsylvania, educated at Virginia Military Institute, class of 1901, serving in the United States Army thereafter, resident of Leesburg, Virginia, 1941 to 1959. During this ti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18L_balls-bluff-overlook_Leesburg-VA.html
Ball's Bluff is a 600 yard long shale and sandstone cliff. It rises up a shallow bell curve from two ravines approximately 300 yards north and south of where you are standing. At this point, it is about 100 feet high, though just to the north (lef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTN_battle-of-balls-bluff-october-21-1861_Leesburg-VA.html
The Battle of Ball's Bluff was the result of a mistake. The previous evening, Capt. Chase Philbrick, Co. H, 15th Massachusetts, led a small reconnaissance patrol across the river to determine the results of some earlier Confederate troop movements…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTM_a-divided-america-a-divided-loudoun-county_Leesburg-VA.html
On April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter, America went to war with itself. Just as the country was divided, so were Virginia and Loudoun County. The western portion of Virginia became the separate state of West Virginia in 1863. Here in L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTD_thomas-clinton-lovett-hatcher_Leesburg-VA.html
20 December, 1839 - 21 October, 1861
Standing over 6'4" and wearing a full red beard, Clinton Hatcher was a memorable figure. Despite his Quaker upbringing, he joined Company F of the 8th Virginia at the beginning of the war and became the regi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTB_the-south-confederate-leaders-at-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
Colonel Nathan George "Shanks" EvansNathan Evans was born in South Carolina in 1824. An 1848 West Point graduate, he was jokingly nicknamed "Shanks" by his classmates because he was knock-kneed. During the next decade he fought Indians with the 2n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT8_the-north-union-leaders-at-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy StoneAs the overall commander of Union forces at Ball's Bluff, Stone was a rising star in the Union army at the time of the battle. He become the scapegoat for the defeat. Stone was born September 30, 1824, in Gre…