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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XW2_dogwood-vietnam-memorial-historical_Charlottesville-VA.html
The Dogwood Vietnam Memorial, a project of the Charlottesville Dogwood Festival, Inc., was conceived late in 1965 after news arrived of the first casualty of the Vietnam War from this area. Consisting of a plaza with a plaque and flagpole, the mem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11R8_advance-mills_Charlottesville-VA.html
Villages such as Advance Mills were once common features of rural Virginia, serving as economic and social centers. Advance Mills grew around a single mill that John Fray constructed in 1833 on the north fork of the Rivanna River. By the twentieth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11R7_convention-army-the-barracks_Charlottesville-VA.html
In Jan. 1779, during the American Revolution, 4,000 British troops and German mercenaries (commonly known as "Hessians") captured following the Battle of Saratoga in New York arrived here after marching from Massachusetts. It was called the Conven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP52_albemarle-barracks-burial-site_Charlottesville-VA.html
"In 1779 4,000 prisoners, British and their German auxiliaries, captured at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, marched over 600 miles to quarters, called 'The Barracks', situated a half mile north of this site. Traditionally, some of these prisoners …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD2F_charlottesville_Charlottesville-VA.html
The site was patented by William Taylor in 1737. The town was established by law in 1762, and was named for Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. Burgoyne's army, captured at Saratoga in 1777, was long quartered near here. The legislature was in se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RV_rio-hill_Charlottesville-VA.html
Civil War relic collectors found Stuart's winter camp and skirmish site (shaded area of map) long before the Rio Hill Shopping Center opened in 1989. Metal detectors were used to search the area and artifacts—bullets, buttons, belt and ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RT_rio-hill-1864-skirmish_Charlottesville-VA.html
In December 1863, Confederate troops established winter quarters here. The approximately 200 soldiers, under the command of Capt. Marcellus N. Moorman, were from Stuart's Horse Artillery Battalion and were equipped with 16 cannons. The men built h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RP_skirmish-at-rio-hill_Charlottesville-VA.html
On February 29, 1864, General George A. Custer and 1500 cavalrymen made a diversionary raid Into Albemarle County. Here, north of Charlottesville, he attacked the Confederate winter camp of four batteries of the Stuart Horse Artillery commanded by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIA_jacksons-valley-campaign_Charlottesville-VA.html
Late in April 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson marched his army out of the Shenandoah Valley through the Blue Ridge Mountains to deceive Union Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont into thinking he was headed for Richmond. On 3 May, Jackson bivou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI9_birthplace-of-meriwether-lewis_Charlottesville-VA.html
Half a mile north was born, 1774, Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, sent by Jefferson to explore the far west, 1804-1806. The expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River, November 15, 1805.
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