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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWON_tavern-park_Petersburg-VA.html
You are standing within Lot Number One of the Old town of Petersburg, as laid out for Abraham Jones, Jr., in December of 1783. The first owner was William Byrd II of Westover. William Pride purchased the lot in 1745, and, entrepreneur that he was,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOM_concrete-bunker_Petersburg-VA.html
This monument stone sits on a 10' deep concrete bunker that was discovered during construction, together with portions of an abandoned railroad track. The bunker was used to store coal for the furnaces in the large buildings which once stood on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOL_peter-jones-trading-station_Petersburg-VA.html
The building before you was built as part of a trading station set up during the middle of the 17th century by Peter Jones I and his father-in-law Major General Abraham Wood. The building is known variously as Peter Jones Trading Station, Peter Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOK_peter-jones-trading-station_Petersburg-VA.html
Of rubble stone construction, this building appears to have been built sometime between 1650 and 1750. Its type of construction is unique to the Fall Zone where stone can be quarried from the building site's environs. Between 1785 and 1791 the bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOJ_petersburgs-role-in-trade_Petersburg-VA.html
Immediately to your right is a mural adapted from a drawing by William Waud which appeared in Harper's Magazine during the Civil War. The mural is an artist's impression of the Petersburg waterfront on the Appomattox River - probably at City Dock …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOA_matoaca-mill-site_Petersburg-VA.html
Originally named the Providence Manufacturing Company, Matoaca Manufacturing (Mill) had its beginning here late in the 1700s on land then known as Olive Hill Plantation. Initially operated as a grist mill, by 1838 it was producing cotton cloth and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWO5_north-carolina-confederate-hospital_Petersburg-VA.html
Site of theConfederate Hospitalfor soldiers fromNorth Carolina1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWO3_ladies-confederate-hospital_Petersburg-VA.html
Original buildingof theLadies ConfederateHospital1862—1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNH_sixth-maryland-infantry-monument_Petersburg-VA.html
The Sixth Maryland Infantry attacked over this ground in the pre-dawn hours of April 2, 1865. A portion of the regiment, led by Major Clifton K. Prentiss, poured over the Confederate works here, suffering numerous casualties in the process, includ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNG_lincoln-in-petersburg_Petersburg-VA.html
After Union forces secured Petersburg on April 3, 1865, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters here at the Thomas Wallace House. He sent word to President Abraham Lincoln at City Point that Petersburg had fallen and invited Lincoln to …
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