Near Powhatan in Powhatan County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Our Confederate Dead

1861-1865

Huguenot Springs UDC Monument. image. Click for full size.

April 26, 2009

1. Huguenot Springs UDC Monument.

Inscription. In this lot rest in sleep two hundred and fifty Confederate dead. We know not who they were, but the whole world knows what they were. They died far from their homes, but fill heroes’ graves, and glory keeps ceaseless watch about their tomb.

Erected by Powhatan Chapter U.D.C. Sept. 15, 1915.

Erected 1915 by Powhatan Chapter U.D.C.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil.

Location. 37° 33.557′ N, 77° 42.243′ W. Memorial is near Powhatan, Virginia, in Powhatan County. It is on Old Confederate Cemetery Road (Virginia Route 640) 0.1 miles west of Huguenot Springs Road ( Route 607), on the left when traveling west. Located in Huguenot Springs Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Midlothian VA 23113, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s Piedmont,

in Central Virginia,

and in the Richmond Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Huguenot Springs (a few steps from this marker); Huguenot Springs Confederate Cemetery (approx. 0.3 miles away); Terre Haute Farm African American Cemetery (approx. half a mile away); Huguenot Settlement (approx. half a mile away); The Huguenot Monument (approx. half a mile away);

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Mowhemcho-Manakin Town (approx. half a mile away); a different marker also named Huguenot Settlement (approx. 2.9 miles away); First Baptist Church (approx. 2.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Powhatan.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Huguenot Springs (was a few steps from this marker but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Huguenot Springs CWT Marker & UDC Monument image. Click for full size.

April 26, 2009

2. Huguenot Springs CWT Marker & UDC Monument

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