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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4DB_the-origins-of-lake-accotink_West-Springfield-VA.html
Indigenous People. The original inhabitants of the lands around Accotink Creek lived as semi-sedentary hunters and gatherers who moved seasonally to fallow game. These peoples spoke varying forms of the Algonquin language. The river system provide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XX_glen-echo-from-past-to-present_Glen-Echo-MD.html
For more than 100 years this land, now Glen Echo Park, has been dedicated to the people: first in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly, a center where people could participate in the sciences, arts, languages, and literature; second in 1899 as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XW_the-orange-and-alexandria-railroad-trestle_West-Springfield-VA.html
The original bridge crossing Accotink Creek was built in 1851 as part of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. During the Civil War the wooden trestle was an attractive target for Confederate soldiers. In his 28 Dec. 1862 raid on Burke's Station, Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16B_orange-and-alexandria-rr_West-Springfield-VA.html
The Lake Accotink access road here lies atop the original road bed of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, chartered in 1849 to link the port city of Alexandria with Gordonsville in central Virginia. After the war began in 1861, railroads became st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU_keenes-mill_Springfield-VA.html
A saw and grist mill built by James Keene between 1796 and 1800, when it was expanded, stood on the north side of the original Keene Mill Road right-of-way just to the east of this marker. The mill served the surrounding farm community for approxi…