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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVHO_studley_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Only archaeological remnants of Studley survive today, but in the 18th century this was the site of an impressive two-story brick house. Studley was built by John Syme in the 1720s for his wife Sarah Winston. After his death, she married John Henr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH6_totopotomoy-creek_Mechanicsville-VA.html
(left panel)Visiting Richmond National Battlefield ParkThe concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield lands…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH5_pine-slash_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Upon Patrick Henry's marriage to Sarah Shelton in 1754, he received for her dowry a 300-acre tract of land and six slaves. Like many Virginians with small farms, Henry labored in the fields with his slaves. Much of the soil at Pine Slash had been …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNES_rural-plains_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Rural Plains, home of the Shelton family for nearly three centuries, stands on the northern bank of Totopotomoy Creek. Eighteen-year-old Patrick Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754. Family tradition places the wedding ceremony in the first floor p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLTJ_site-of-polegreen_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Founded 1748 byRev. Samuel DaviesPresbytery of NewCastle synod ofNew York. Seven yearsbefore the organizationof Hanover Presbytery1755
Destroyed June 1st 1864.
Erected by Woman's AuxillaryEast Hanover Presbytery1929.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLTH_polegreen-church_Mechanicsville-VA.html
From Virginia's founding until the American Revolution 170 years later, the Anglican Church was the only state recognized religion. The government built the churches and the parsonages and paid the clergy with tax money. All other religious groups…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLTC_polegreen-church_Mechanicsville-VA.html
For more than a century the Polegreen Church stood as a monument to the Hanover Dissenters and Samuel Davies in the struggle for religious liberty. Though Davies died fifteen years before the American Revolution, his influence and revolutionary sp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMESC_early-airmail-service_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Airmail service was initiated by the U.S. Post Office and the Army on 15 May 1918. Because of the danger night flying posed, airway beacons such as Studley were erected along the airmail routes between the East and West Coasts and Georgia and New …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDTM_rutland_Mechanicsville-VA.html
Rutland was the home of the Timberlake family for 200 years, built circa 1790-1810 as a one-and-one-half-story hall-and-parlor house. July 12-21, 1862, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart headquartered in the house, with an encampment of 3,000 cavalry.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAJI_totopotomoi_Mechanicsville-VA.html
1656TotopotomoiChief of the Pamunkey Indians, faithful ally of the English, killed in Battle of Bloody Run near Richmond
1754Rural PlainsBuilt 1670Home of Sarah Shelton, married here to Patrick Henry
1864Battle of the TotopotomoiPreceding Co…