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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJL9_battlefield-burials_Henrico-VA.html
The depressions to the right of the trail probably represent former graves of Confederate soldiers. The dead of both armies received hasty battlefield burials. Most were disinterred after the war, with the Union dead going to Glendale National Cem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJH2_confederate-attacks-stall_Henrico-VA.html
General Couch found the uneven terrain in this section of the Union position less favorable for artillery. He chose to push his infantry well forward of the guns, placing brigades under Abercrombie, Howe, and Palmer on this ground to prevent the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGX0_chatsworth-school_Richmond-VA.html
Chatsworth School was built circa 1915 as a one-room schoolhouse for the black children of the Antioch Community. Chatsworth was one of approximately twenty black schools in Henrico County supervised by the visionary educator, Virginia E. Randolph…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGLV_john-rolfe_Richmond-VA.html
John Rolfe emigrated from England to Virginia in 1610 and settled in what was to become Henrico County. In 1612 he imported tobacco seeds from Trinidad and cultivated a new strain of mild tobacco. He shipped part of his harvest to England in 1614,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGLH_first-battle-of-deep-bottom_Richmond-VA.html
On the night of 26-27 July 1864, a Union battle group led by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock crossed the James River on pontoon bridges a mile south. Hancock intended to attack Confederate defenses below Richmond while the primary Federal force i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIA_four-mile-creek-baptist-church_Henrico-VA.html
The Baptist Church of Christ on Four Mile Creek was constituted at Clayton Springs on the 5th of August, 1781. In 1828, church members moved the meeting house four miles west to its present location. In the fall of 1864, Union troops occupied the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGI2_henrico-parish-church_Henrico-VA.html
Sir Thomas Dale established the original Henrico Parish Church at Henricus, 4½ miles southeast of here, in 1611. The first minister, the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, has been credited with converting Pocahontas to Christianity. Other notewort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGI0_wilton_Henrico-VA.html
Five miles southwest. The house was built by William Randolph, son of William Randolph of Turkey Island, early in the eighteenth century. It was Lafayette's headquarters, May 15-20, 1781, just before Cornwallis crossed the James in pursuit of him.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGH8_deep-bottom-park_Henrico-VA.html
Fourmile Creek flows into the slender oxbow of the James River here. Oxbows, successive curvatures in the river's course, forced Smith and his men to row long distances on their exploratory trip upstream. Navigating the sharp turns was very diffic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC52_39th-illinois-veteran-volunteers_Henrico-VA.html
On 16 Aug. 1864, Federal infantry stormed Confederate earthworks nearby, in the Second Battle of Deep Bottom. The 39th Illinois helped lead the assault. Pvt. Henry M. Hardenbergh, of Bremen Township, the color bearer, served in Co. G, called the "…