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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM161B_stuarts-ride_Charles-City-VA.html
In May 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan led the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula to the gates of Richmond. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June and began planning a counterattack. On June …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM161A_stuarts-ride_Charles-City-VA.html
In May 1862, Union Gen. George B. McClellan led the Army of the Potomac up the Peninsula to the gates of Richmond. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June and began planning a counterattack. On June …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14HY_kittiewan-plantation_Charles-City-VA.html
Colonial home of Dr. William Rickman, Head Surgeon of the Continental Army of Virginia, and wife Elizabeth Harrison Rickman Edmondson, of Berkeley. Original section constructed ca. 1770-1790, shed roof addition added ca. 1840. Land referre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14HV_wryanoke-parrish-hill_Charles-City-VA.html
The Weanoc Indians gave this area its name. The Minge family settled much of the Weyanoke peninsula during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Landmarks have included Weyanoke Parish Church, Tyler's Mill, a steamboat landing, a post office at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVB4_chickahominy-water-trail_Charles-City-VA.html
(left panel)Sustaining a Credible Illusion The Jamestown settlement was facing a severe food shortage in November of 1607. Captain JohnSmith set out to trade for corn with the Indians living along this river. He traveled from one town to anothe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6Y_richmond-condita_Charles-City-VA.html
From this spacious dwelling Colonel William Byrd, the Second, of Westover, set out in 1737 to lay the foundations and to project the future of the City of Richmond. Its grateful citizens, recalling the sufferings borne and the glory experienced, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6Q_westover-plantation_Charles-City-VA.html
Westover Plantation was established in 1619, part of the rapid agricultural expansion that followed several years of mere subsistence for the English at Jamestown. Often, the English co-opted fields already cleared by Natives for farming or as fis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6P_westover_Charles-City-VA.html
Following the last of the Seven Days' Battles on July 1, 1862, at Malvern Hill, Gen. George B. McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac continued its retreat to the James River. McClellan had earlier decided to "change his base" from the Pamunkey Riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK6N_berkeley-and-harrisons-landing_Charles-City-VA.html
A short distance south. The place was first settled in 1619 but was abandoned. It was repatented in 1636. Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived here; his son, William Henry Harrison, President of the United States, wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJF5_roxbury_Charles-City-VA.html
Roxbury was named for a nearby plantation in New Kent County and reached by Longbridge over the Chickahominy. This community was the site of a colonial era tavern and the only railroad station in Charles City County . Roxbury post office (1883-195…
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