| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Baynesville — J-75 — Westmoreland State Park |
| | This park was developed by the National Park Service, Interior Department, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Commission. It covers 1300 acres and was opened, June 15, 1936. It was originally included in “Clifts Plantation,” patented by Nathaniel Pope about 1650, and became part of the Stratford estate when purchased by Thomas Lee in 1718. — Map (db m22314) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — Birthplace of James Monroe |
| | April 28, 1758
July 4, 1831
Fifth president of the
United States 1817- 1825
Governor of Virginia
1799 and 1811
Proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine
December 2, 1823
Declares the Americas
no longer subject to
European colonization — Map (db m11940) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — JP-6 — Birthplace of Monroe |
| | In this vicinity stood the Monroe home where James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, was born, April 28, 1758. His father was Spence Monroe and his mother, Elizabeth Jones. He left home at the age of sixteen to enter William and Mary College and left college to enter the army. — Map (db m11585) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — JT 21 — Charles B. Smith — 99th Fighter Squadron — (Tuskegee Airmen) |
| | Born in Westmoreland County, Charles Bernard Smith (1917-1991) is one of more than 140,000 African Americans who served in the racially segregated U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. Trained at Chanute Field, Illinois, in aircraft ground support with the 99th Fighter Squadron, the famed “Tuskegee Airmen,” he served in North Africa and Europe as technical sergeant and crew chief. In more than 200 missions as bomber escorts, the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fire, . . . — Map (db m22255) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — Colonial Beach Roll of Honor — World War I * World War II |
| | In reverent tribute to the men and women of Colonial Beach, VA. who have served our country.
Left Column:
World War II
Stanley G. Adams •
James W. Allison •
William D. Bankett •
James R. Barnes •
William S. Barnes •
James B. Barnette •
Robert B. Bass •
William H. Berkeley, Jr. •
Cecil I. Bidgood •
Landon A. Billingsley •
Thomas C. Bland, Jr. •
Roy M. Bowler •
George Brown, Jr. •
Maurice M. Brown, Jr. •
Thomas M. Bunting •
Charles M. Carey, Jr. •
John R. Carey . . . — Map (db m20870) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — James Monroe — 1758 - 1831 |
| | Soldier * Patriot * Statesman
This marks the birthplace of James Monroe, April 28, 1758
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Attended college of William & Mary; Officer, Continental Army, American Revolution; Married Elizabeth Kortright, 1786; US Senator; Minister Plenipotentiary to France and then to England; Represented the United States in Spain; Governor of Virginia; Signed treaty of Louisiana Purchase; Negotiated to acquire Florida; Secretary of State; Secretary of War; Fifth U.S. . . . — Map (db m11941) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Colonial Beach — Soldier - Statesman President James Monroe |
| | On the morning of December 26, 1776, a small detachment of American Light Infantry, led by Lieutenant James Monroe, aged 19, breached the Hessian defenses at Trenton. This gallent action, in which Monroe was severely wounded, enabled the Continental Forces under George Washington to prevail. The American Revolution had begun its long march to victory at Yorktown, Virginia.
The patriotism, valor, and combat leadership of James Monroe exemplify character strengths of the citizen soldiers who . . . — Map (db m11942) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Flat Iron — J-69-a — Popes Creek Episcopal Church |
| | On this site, a part of “Longwood,” stood Popes Creek Episcopal Church, built about 1744 on land given by the McCarty family. The Lees and the Washingtons worshipped here. About 1826 it fell into disuse and was burned as being unsafe. — Map (db m22135) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Grays Corner — JT-20 — McCoy Revolutionary Soldiers |
| | Bennett and James McCoy, free men (probably
brothers) from Westmoreland County, were
among the many African Americans who
served in the Virginia militia and the United
States Army or Navy during the Revolutionary
War. Bennett McCoy served for three years
starting in 1777, participated in several major
battles, and reenlisted with the 15th Virginia
Regiment until the end of the war. James McCoy
rendered guard service on the Potomac River
from 1777 to 1778. In 1781, he was drafted . . . — Map (db m22429) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Grays Corner — JT-4 — Washington’s Mother |
| | At Sandy Point, seven and a half miles east, Mary Ball, Washington’s Mother, spent her youth in the home of her guardian, George Eskridge. There she was married to Augustine Washington, March, 1731. She is supposed to have named her eldest son for George Eskridge. — Map (db m22407) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Grays Corner — JT-7 — Yeocomico Church |
| | Two miles east. Built in 1655 of oak timbers sheathed with clapboards. Rebuilt of brick in 1706. In this vicinity Mary Ball lived under the tutelage of Colonel George Eskridge, of Sandy Point, from 1721 until her marriage to Augustine Washington in 1730, and attended church here. In 1906 an association was formed to preserve the church. — Map (db m22400) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Hague — Lee Hall |
| | A quarter-mile to the northeast stood Lee Hall, built about 1723 by Henry Lee of Stratford and the great-grandfather of Robert Edward Lee. He left his estate to his son Richard Lee, who for 36 years represented Westmoreland County in the House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary Conventions, and the House of Delegates, 1758–1794. — Map (db m22393) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Hague — JT-8 — Richard Henry Lee’s Grave |
| | A mile and a half north, in the Lee burying ground, is the grave of Richard Henry Lee, who died, June 19, 1794. Lee was one of the first leaders of the American Revolution. On June 7, 1776, he introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress for a declaration of independence, and argued for it, June 7–10. The Declaration was signed, July 4, 1776. — Map (db m22395) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Hague — The Burnt House Field |
| | A mile and a half to the north is the Burnt House Field, a Lee family graveyard in which were buried Richard Lee of “Machotick,” Thomas Lee of “Stratford,” Richard Henry Lee of “Chantilly,” their wives, and others. These burials were in the garden of the Lees’ “Machotick” plantation house, which burned down in 1729. — Map (db m22397) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Hague — JT-18 — Zion Baptist Church |
| | Zion Baptist Church is home to one of the oldest African American congregations in Westmoreland County. Before slavery ended,
according to local tradition, services were
first held under a dogwood bush arbor on
Gawen’s Farm, near Tucker Hill, approximately
one and a half miles north of here. The
members had most likely worshiped at the
nearby white Machodoc (Sandy Valley)
Baptist Church. Zion Baptist Church was formally organized in 1867, when the congregation constructed a log building. . . . — Map (db m22399) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), King George — Z 6 — King George County / Westmoreland County — Area 180 Square Miles / Area 252 Square Miles |
| | (Obverse)
King George County
Area 180 Square Miles
Formed in 1720 from Richmond, and named for King George I. James Madison, "Father of the American Constitution" and President of the United States, was born in this county.
(Reverse)
Westmoreland County
Area 252 Square Miles
Formed in 1653 from Northumberland and King George, and named for an English county. In it were born George Washington, James Monroe, and Robert E. Lee. — Map (db m22268) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Kinsale — JT-8 — Kinsale |
| | Two miles east, on the picturesque Yeocomico River, is Kinsale, the founding of which the Assembly ordered in 1784. Near by at the old home of the Bailey family, “The Great House,” is the tomb of Midshipman James B. Sigourney, who in command of the sloop “Asp” fell in an engagement with the British in Yeocomico River, June 14, 1813. — Map (db m22463) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Kinsale — Z-4 — Northumberland County / Westmoreland County |
| | Northumberland County. Area 205 square miles. Originally an Indian district called Chicacoan. In 1648 it became Northumberland County, named for an English county. The mouth of the Potomac River is here.
Westmoreland County. Area 252 square miles. Formed in 1653 from Northumberland and King George, and named for an English county. In it were born George Washington, James Monroe, and Robert E. Lee. — Map (db m22471) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Leedstown — JT-15 — Leedstown |
| | Here at the then thriving port of Leedstown on February 27, 1766, ten years before the Declaration of Independence, the Leedstown Resolutions (or Westmoreland Association) were drawn. This association, a protest against the Stamp Act and a pledge of mutual aid in event of its execution, was signed by 115 men from Westmoreland and surrounding counties. — Map (db m22085) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Leedstown — J-98 — Pissaseck Indians |
| | The Pissaseck Indians lived along the Rappahannock River, here at Leedstown and in a few other villages in Westmoreland County. They spoke a language derived from the Virginia Algonquian family and were hunters and farmers. The Pissasecks were tributaries of Chief Powhatan, who ruled a political configuration of Indian groups that occupied the coastal plain of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. English Capt. John Smith featured the Pissaseck Indians on his Virginia map published in 1612. — Map (db m22106) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Lerty — J-76 — Stratford and Chantilly |
| | Two miles east is Stratford, built about 1725 by Thomas Lee (1690–1750), president of the Virginia Council and father of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here also was born Robert Edward Lee (1807–1870). Three miles east of Stratford stood Chantilly, the home of Richard Henry Lee in his later years. — Map (db m22349) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Machodoc — J-72 — Nomini Hall |
| | The house was built about 1730 and burned in 1850. It was not rebuilt. Only some poplar trees remain. A fine colonial mansion, it was the home of the celebrated “councillor” Robert Carter. Philip Fithian, tutor at Nonimi Hall, 1773–74, wrote his well-known “Journal” there. — Map (db m22384) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Montross — JT-19 — Armstead Tasker Johnson School |
| | The A.T. Johnson High School was built in 1937 in the Colonial Revival style as the first public high school constructed for African Americans in Westmoreland County. The new school was named for Armstead Tasker Johnson (1857–1944), a black educator and community leader of the grassroots effort for its construction. Local African Americans raised money to build the school. Additional financing came from the federal Works Progress Administration, the Jeanes and Slater black education . . . — Map (db m22352) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Montross — J-79 — Nomini Baptist Church |
| | Nomini Baptist Church was established on 29 April 1786 with 17 members. By 1809 it was reputedly the largest Baptist church in Virginia with 875 members. The original meetinghouse, built nearby in 1790 on land donated by a charter member, Captain Joseph Pierce, was replaced in 1858–59 by the present brick church. During the past two centuries Nomini Baptist Church has had 27 ministers, beginning with Elder Henry Toler, and is considered the mother church of ten congregations in three counties. — Map (db m22359) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Montross — J-84 — Nomini Baptist Meetinghouse |
| | Nearby stood the original “Nomony” (early variant spelling) Meetinghouse. On 29 Apr. 1786, 17 members established Nomini Baptist Church. Until 1790, when the meetinghouse was built on land donated by charter member Joseph Peirce, the congregation met in the homes of Pierce, Samuel Templeman, and Elizabeth Steptoe. With 875 members by 1809, Nomini was the largest Baptist church in Virginia. The meetinghouse served the congregation for almost three-quarters of a century until replaced . . . — Map (db m22361) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Montross — J-71 — Old Westmoreland Courthouse |
| | At a public meeting here, on June 22, 1774, resolutions of Richard Henry Lee offering aid to Boston, whose port had been closed by the British government, were adopted. Here, on May 23, 1775, the Westmoreland Committee on Safety passed resolutions denouncing the Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, for seizing the colony’s powder supply at Williamsburg. — Map (db m6585) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Mt. Holly — JT-5 — Bushfield |
| | A mile and a half east, this was the home of John Augustine Washington, younger brother of George Washington, who visited here. Here was born, in 1762, Bushrod Washington, who became Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1798, and died in 1829. He inherited Mount Vernon. — Map (db m22390) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Mt. Holly — JT-14 — Morgan Jones Kiln |
| | The Morgan Jones Kiln, located 5.2 miles north of here, operated for a short time in 1677. According to Westmoreland County records, Morgan Jones and Dennis White entered into a partnership for the “making and selling of Earthen ware,” which provided utilitarian pottery to settlers in the Chesapeake Bay area. An archaeological excavation in 1973 uncovered Jones’s kiln and fragments of his pottery, marking available a valuable dating tool for other archaeological sites in the . . . — Map (db m22391) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Mt. Holly — JT-3 — The Glebe |
| | Five miles north is the home of the rectors of Cople Parish, one of whom, Walter Jones, married Washington’s parents, March 6, 1781. Here lived Thomas Smith, rector of the parish, 1764–1799, and chairman of the County Committee of Safety, 1775. He entertained Washington, May 25, 1771. The house is possibly the oldest in the Northern Neck. — Map (db m22389) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Mundy Point — JT-16 — Sandy Point |
| | Here at Sandy Point, Mary Ball, George Washington’s mother, spent her youth in the home of her guardian, Colonel George Eskridge. Here she married Augustine Washington in March 1731. She is supposed to have named her eldest son, George, for Colonel Eskridge. — Map (db m22434) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Nomini — JT-2 — Nominy Church |
| | One of the two churches of the Cople Parish. It was built in 1704 on land given by Youell Watkins, and was replaced in 1755 by a brick church at the same site. George Washington attended services here twice in 1768. The last colonial church burned (1814) by the British Admiral Cockburn, who carried off the church silver. The present building was erected about 1652. The first Nominy Church of 1655 stood on the north side of the river opposite this place. — Map (db m22379) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — J-69 — George Washington’s Birthplace — (Wakefield) |
| | George Washington’s birthplace is two miles north, on Pope’s Creek, just off the Potomac River. He was born on 22 Feb. 1732 and lived there only for three years. Washington’s father, Augustine, purchased the land in 1718 and built the house by 1726. President Washington s half-brother Augustine, Jr., inherited the property after his father’s death in 1743. The dwelling, a U-shaped timber-frame house, burned on Christmas Day 1779. The present Memorial House, erected in 1930–31 is a . . . — Map (db m22134) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — George Washington’s Birthplace |
| | On the ground before you once stood the plantation home of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. Here, on February 22, 1732, George Washington—farmer, general of the Continental Army, and first president of the United States—was born.
George Washington lived here only three years, but returned often during his youth and came to know Popes Creek Plantation well. The house remained in the Washington family until 1779, when it burned in a Christmas Day . . . — Map (db m22983) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — J-67 — History at Oak Grove |
| | Here George Washington, while living at Wakefield with a brother, went to school, 1744–1746. Here Union Cavalry came on a raid through the Northern Neck, May 1863. Several miles north of this place, James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, was born, 1758. — Map (db m22108) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — John Muse — October 13, 1633 – April 5, 1723 |
| | The land encompassing this marker has been in the continuous possession of the Muse family since September 16, 1668.
Possession has been handed down through the toils of the descendants of the founding father of the Muse family in America. — Map (db m6670) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — The Burial Ground |
| | Three generations of George Washington’s forebears are buried here. The first burials were made in 1668, when John Washington’s wife Anne and two small children died. During the next thirty years, at least nine more Washingtons—including George Washington’s grandparents—were interred here.
The cemetery today bears no resemblance to the cemetery George Washington visited during his youth. In 1930, the Wakefield National Memorial Association constructed the wall around the . . . — Map (db m23077) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Oak Grove — J-68 — Westmoreland Association |
| | At Leedstown, seven miles south, an association was formed to resist the enforcement of the Stamp Act, February 27, 1766. The Resolutions, drafted by the revolutionary leader, Richard Henry Lee, were one of the first protests against the Stamp Act and influenced public opinion in all the colonies. — Map (db m22110) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Smith Hill — J-64 — Bristol Iron Works |
| | On the river a short distance south is the site of the Bristol Iron Works, which were projected by John King and Company, of Bristol, England, and established in 1721 by John Tayloe, John Lomax and associates. The works, which were on the Foxall’s mill property owned in 1670 by Major Underwood, were in operation in 1729 and later. — Map (db m22084) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Stratford — Burrell Eskridge and His Son Vernon Eskridge |
| | In memory of Burell Eskridge and his son Vernon Eskridge who gave this parcel of ground to the Shiloh Baptist Church in 1881 and 1894 respectively; and his great grandson Norman Bryant in 1957. May the memory of these gentlemen and of their good deeds never die. — Map (db m22350) |
| Virginia (Westmoreland County), Zacata — JT-17 — Private Tate, Buffalo Soldier |
| | Walter Tate was born nearby in 1854. He
enlisted as a private on 6 May 1879 at Fort
Concho (present-day San Angelo), Texas, in
Company M, 10th Regiment, U. S. Cavalry.
Tate and those who served with him on the
western frontier defended settlements, livestock,
the U. S. mail, and stage routes from bandits,
cattle thieves, and Mexican revolutionaries.
The Indians called Tate and other soldiers of
color “Buffalo Soldiers” because of their dark
curly hair, endurance, and . . . — Map (db m22351) |
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