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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DS_friends-asylum-for-colored-orphans_Richmond-VA.html
Here stood the Friends Asylum. for Colored
Orphans. Lucy Goode Brooks and the Ladies
Sewing Circle for Charitable Work, all formerly
enslaved, founded it in 1871. The orphanage,
supported by the Cedar Creek Meeting Society
of Friends, provide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SWI_james-monroe-monument-historical_Richmond-VA.html
Fifth President James Monroe was born April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
While attending the College of William and Mary he joined in the struggle for independence from Great Britain. James Monroe served with distinction during th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQJ_leigh-street-armory_Richmond-VA.html
In 1895, the city of Richmond constructed the Leigh Street or First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory, the nation's only 19th-century armory built for an African American militia. Several decades of noteworthy performance by Virginia's black mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0L_samuel-preston-moore_Richmond-VA.html
Site of the house in which
Samuel Preston Moore
Surgeon General
Confederate States of America
lived, from 1863 to 1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GUV_maggie-lena-walker_Richmond-VA.html
Maggie Lena Walker was the first woman and the first African-American woman to found and be president of a chartered bank in the United States. She was born into poverty on July 15, 1864 in Richmond, Virginia to parents who worked in the mansion o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTU_virginia-union-university_Richmond-VA.html
The result of the merging on this site in 1899 of two institutions founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society as follows:
1865 - Richmond Theological School for Freemen
1865 - Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.
1932 - Hartshorn Memoria…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17K6_memorial-bell-tower_Richmond-VA.html
To the Glory of God and in Memory of James Thomas, Jr.This Bell Tower is the gift of Mrs. Laura Thomas Rutherfordwho has presented this memorial to her father, as a tribute to his love for and loyalty to the First Baptist Church, of which he was f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM121D_ebenezer-baptist-church_Richmond-VA.html
Free blacks and slaves living west of Second St. and north of Broad St. founded the Third African Baptist Church in 1857. In 1858, it was dedicated on this site as Ebenezer Baptist Church, with a white minister, the Rev. William T. Lindsay, as pas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTG8_wctu-of-richmond-fountain_Richmond-VA.html
This fountainIs erected by the WomansChristian Temperance UnionOf Richmond City and Henrico CountyAnd their friends in memory of theCrusaders of Hillsboro, Ohio whoWent out December 19, 1873 with theWeapons of prayer and faith in GodTo overthrow t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPS_site-of-richmond-college_Richmond-VA.html
These gatewayserected by the Trusteesas a memorial to theFounders of Richmond Collegemark the siteof the Institution1834 - 1914