On Lee Jackson Highway (U.S. 11) at Spottswood Road (Virginia Route 620), on the right when traveling south on Lee Jackson Highway.
Two and a half miles northwest. As early as 1748 a log meeting house stood there. In 1793 a stone church (still standing) was built. In 1859 it was succeeded by a brick church, which gave way to the present building in 1918. In the graveyard rest . . . — — Map (db m23759) HM
On Glebe School Road (Virginia Route 876) south of Baylor Mill Road, on the right when traveling south.
The vestry of Augusta Parish purchased 200 acres here in 1749 to serve as a glebe, farmland set aside to support the minister. Just to the southwest, on a portion of this property, the parish established the first public cemetery in the vicinity. . . . — — Map (db m159738) HM
Near Three Notched Mountain Highway (U.S. 250) 0.8 miles north of Interstate 64.
Deaths of laborers and their family members were frequent along the Blue Ridge Railroad. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, and heart disease took a heavy toll. About thirty-three Irish men, women, and children living in shanties near the tunnel perished . . . — — Map (db m237793) HM
On Forest Road (U.S. 221) east of Venture Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Half a mile north is St. Stephen's Church, built about 1825 under Rev. Nicholas Cobb, later Bishop of Alabama. In the old cemetery here many members of early families of the community are buried. — — Map (db m42894) HM
On East Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (U.S. 460) west of Ryland Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Nearby are buried several prominent area settlers and their descendants. Col. William Callaway, in 1755 one of the first two members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Bedford County, donated the hundred acres of land on which the town of New . . . — — Map (db m65605) HM
Near East Hill Cemetery Drive north of East State Street, on the left when traveling north.
Erected by friends in honor of V.N. “Bud” Phillips who came to Bristol as a total stranger on August 20, 1953 yet in time became one of her best known, highly respected and influential citizens…so much so that “Bud Phillips Day” was celebrated in . . . — — Map (db m67285) HM
Near East Hill Cemetery Drive north of East State Street, on the left when traveling north.
This site was established in 1857 by Bristol founder Joseph Rhea Anderson for the purpose of a slave cemetery. Buried nearby are twelve slaves including Old Si Goodson, who died in 1862, purportedly at the age of 132, reputed to be the oldest man in . . . — — Map (db m67287) HM
On North James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.1 miles south of Bell Road (Virginia Route 650), on the right when traveling north.
African Americans had established Chief Cornerstone Baptist Church by 1876, during a period when many Black southerners worked to build independent community institutions in the wake of Emancipation. John and Harriet Gregory, who had formerly been . . . — — Map (db m239969) HM
On Red Hill Road (County Route 677) 1 mile south of Staunton Hill Road (County Route 619).
The double box tomb on the north side of the path marks the graves of Patrick Henry and his second wife, Dorothea Dandridge. Patrick Henry died at home on June 6, 1799, after a long illness. Dorothea died on Valentine's Day 1831 at Seven Islands, . . . — — Map (db m128643) HM
Near Red Hill Road (County Route 677) 1 mile south of Staunton Hill Road (Route 619).
This beautiful and tranquil garden spot overlooking the unspoiled forested Staunton River valley is set aside as a special place reserved for those descended from Patrick Henry, who have chosen that their cremated remains would be scattered in . . . — — Map (db m128695) HM
Near Red Hill Road (County Route 677) 1 mile Staunton Hill Road (County Route 619), on the right when traveling south.
These simple fieldstones mark the resting place of slaves and African Americans who worked at Red Hill, making it among the most productive tobacco plantations along the Staunton River during the 18th and 19th centuries.
When Patrick Henry . . . — — Map (db m128704) HM
On Brookneal Highway (U.S. 501) near Pigeon Run Road (County Route 652), on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
Two miles east is Shady Grove, which was built in 1825 by Dr. George Cabell, of Point of Honor in Lynchburg, for his daughter Paulina and her husband Alexander Spotswood Henry, son of Patrick Henry. Shady Grove is a handsomely proportioned and . . . — — Map (db m64247) HM
On Ladysmith Road (County Route 639) at Countyline Church Road (County Route 603), on the right when traveling east on Ladysmith Road.
William Clark was born to John and Ann Rogers
Clark on 1 Aug. 1770 on the family farm about
one mile north. The Clark family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1784. William Clark served in
the Kentucky militia and in the Indian campaigns
in the . . . — — Map (db m22561) HM
Near Harrison Landing Road, 0.9 miles south of Westover Road (Virginia Route 633), on the left when traveling south.
In this graveyard is buried
Col. Benjamin Harrison, V
December 13, 1730
April 24, 1791
Singer of the
Declaration of Independence
Member of
Virginia House of Burgesses
Continental Congress
Federal Constitutional Convention . . . — — Map (db m87114) HM
On Barnesville Highway (U.S. 15) at Jackson-Vaughan Road (County Route 607), on the right when traveling south on Barnesville Highway.
Member of House of Burgesses, 1765-1775, of Virginia conventions, 1774-1788, including Constitutional Conventions, of first Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. A founder of Hampden-Sydney College. Lived and is buried at Mulberry Hill nearby. — — Map (db m31864) HM
On Barnesville Highway (U.S. 15) 0.3 miles north of Jackson-Vaughan Road (County Route 607), on the right when traveling south.
Nine miles west is Roanoke, home of John Randolph, a member of the House of Representatives for many years, and Senator. Randolph at first was Jefferson's lieutenant and later on an opponent and critic, but he never lost the love of his . . . — — Map (db m31860) HM
The Foster family kept their ancestors close. Sheltered on a portion of their 2 1/8-acre plot purchased in 1833 by free black Catherine Foster, this burial ground still contains several dozen graves.
Rediscovered in 1993, the Foster cemetery . . . — — Map (db m81599) HM
On Oak Street just west of 1st Street South, on the right when traveling west.
The Daughters of Zion Cemetery was established in 1873 by a benevolent organization of African American women known as the Daughters of Zion, who purchased an approximate two-acre plot for African American burials located across from the segregated . . . — — Map (db m189586) HM
On Bells Mills Road at Progress Drive, on the left when traveling west on Bells Mills Road.
This memorial is the first and only memorial of its kind in the Commonwealth of Virginia dedicated to honor Afro-Union patriot heroes. It is located in the northeast section of the Sgt. March Corprew Family Memorial Cemetery.
Sgt. March . . . — — Map (db m211252) HM
On Long Ridge Road at Cuffee Road, on the left when traveling north on Long Ridge Road.
Thirteen African American veterans of the Civil War are interred nearby at the Cuffeytown Historic Cemetery. They served in the 5th, 10th, and 36th United States Colored Troops infantry regiments organized in 1863 and 1864, after the Emancipation . . . — — Map (db m48917) HM
On St. Brides Road, 0.3 miles south of Benefit Road, on the left when traveling south.
This is the former site of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. The monument to the "Jackson Greys" honors the regiment that was formed on the grounds of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church by Capt. (later Lieutenant Colonel) William H. Stewart who lived . . . — — Map (db m211238) HM
Near Relay Road at Ballahack Road, on the left when traveling south.
Nearby were the homes of three Afro-Virginians who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Sgt. March Corprew, Co. I, 2nd USCT Cavalry, and his brother Pvt. Daniel Corprew, Co. D, 1st USCT Cavalry, lived on a . . . — — Map (db m48918) HM
On Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east.
This plot is reserved in perpetuity for the Gregory family, who owned a working plantation here between 1797 and 1866.
This site was settled in 1610 by the Thomas Sheffield family under a royal patent of 2,300 acres from the Crown of England. The . . . — — Map (db m143045) HM
On River Road (Route 602) at Eppes Falls Road, on the left when traveling west on River Road.
Two and one-third miles south stands Eppington, built in the late 1760s by Francis Eppes and his wife Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, half-sister to Martha Wayles Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson frequently visited Eppington. Lucy Jefferson, his daughter, died . . . — — Map (db m28911) HM
Near Enon Church Road (Virginia Route 746) at Point of Rocks Road, on the left when traveling west.
Point of Rocks takes its name from a 60-foot high sandstone cliff located here along the Appomattox River. The site was used by Native Americans as a camp and observation point, and was mentioned by Captain John Smith in his notes on Virginia. A . . . — — Map (db m109399) HM
On Hull Street Road (U.S. 360) at North Bailey Bridge Road, on the right when traveling west on Hull Street Road.
Eleazar Clay (1744-1836) led the establishment of the first Baptist church in Chesterfield County, known as Chesterfield (Baptist) Church, Rehoboth Meeting House, or Clay's Church, in 1773. He also supported the Baptist preachers imprisoned for . . . — — Map (db m35993) HM
Near Fort Darling Road, 0.5 miles north of Bellwood Road.
The little white chapel that stood here was built by soldiers of the garrison and held 150 people. Different ministers came from Richmond each week to preach. A small burial ground was located just 50 yards beyond the chapel—a reminder that . . . — — Map (db m37025) HM
On East Main Street (Business Virginia Route 7), on the right.
Benjamin Berry, son of Henry Berry of King George County, settled in what is now Clarke County prior to the Revolution, and in 1798, he procured the formal establishment of the town of Berryville, the town having been platted by him, and consisting . . . — — Map (db m1810) HM
On Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. 340) at Trapp Hill Road (County Route 729), on the right when traveling south on Lord Fairfax Highway.
Organized near this spot by Wm. and Daniel Fristoe in 1772. Constituted by elders John Marks and John Garrard, the later serving as its pastor. James Ireland served as pastor from 1778–1806 and is buried here. — — Map (db m1831) HM
On Josephine Street east of South Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
ORIGINAL STOCKHOLDERS: T.T. Brown, Coon Reed,
George Blair, Samuel Robertson, Frank Randolph, Robert
Hall, Howard Coxen, London Mitchell, George Tokus,
Emanuel Blackburn, Joseph Thornley, Joseph Webb, Edmund
Jackson, Thomas Laws Jr., Jerry . . . — — Map (db m104756) HM
On Bishop Meade Road (Virginia Route 255) at Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. 340), on the left when traveling north on Bishop Meade Road. Reported missing.
Lord Fairfax worshipped here in the “Old Chapel” of colonial Frederick Parish, established 1738. This stone building dates from 1790 and witnessed the early ministry (1810–1885) of Bishop Meade. Governor Edmund Randolph and Col. Nathaniel Burwell . . . — — Map (db m1852) HM
On Bishop Meade Road (Virginia Route 255) at Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. 340), on the right when traveling south on Bishop Meade Road.
The Virginia General established Frederick Parish in 1738, and a log sanctuary was built here ca. 1747. A stone church, later known as Old Chapel, replaced the log building ca. 1793. The Rev. William Meade served the congregation for about 25 years . . . — — Map (db m230298) HM
On Bishop Meade Highway (Virginia Route 255) at Carter Hall Lane, on the right when traveling north on Bishop Meade Highway.
Col. Nathaniel Burwell, great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter, constructed Carter Hall in the mid-1790s after moving here from Tidewater Virginia. Edmund Randolph Governor of Virginia, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Secretary of State, died here . . . — — Map (db m72942) HM
On US Avenue, 0.1 miles east of East Stevens Street, on the right when traveling east.
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m185505) HM
On US Avenue, 0.3 miles east of South East Street, on the right when traveling east.
Civil War soldiers were originally buried where they bravely fought and died during battles at Cedar Mountain, Trevilians Station, Gordonsville, Brandy Station and surrounding area. Following the Civil War the remains of 912 soldiers whose names are . . . — — Map (db m202787) HM
On Oaklawn Boulevard just west of South Blue Ridge Avenue, in the median.
Col. John Jameson (1751-1810) owned land nearby. He served as the Culpeper County court clerk (1772-1810) and a captain in the Culpeper Minute Men battalion during the Revolutionary War. In Sept. 1780, while serving under Gen. Benedict Arnold in New . . . — — Map (db m23962) HM
On US Avenue, 0.2 miles east of South East Street, on the right when traveling east.
Seat of War
Railroads connecting Washington, D.C., and Richmond crossed Culpeper County, Virginia, so this area witnessed major Civil War battles. Both Union and Confederate armies occupied this area throughout the war. In 1861, the . . . — — Map (db m170182) HM
On Sperryville Pike (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling south.
Just to the south stood Catalpa, where John Strode Barbour was born on 29 Dec. 1820. In 1849, he was appointed the state’s representative on the board of directors of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The board elected him president in 1851 and he . . . — — Map (db m8416) HM
Near North James Madison Highway (Route 642) 0.1 miles north of North James Madison Highway (U.S. 15), on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
Three days after the battle, after cease-fire, Stonewall Jackson's force withdrew to Gordonsville. At least 405 men were buried on the field. All but one, N.B. Phillips, were in unmarked graves.
The Union army occupied the field for about a . . . — — Map (db m184367) HM
Near Dove Hill Road (Virginia Route 642) 0.1 miles north of North James Madison Highway (U.S. 15), on the left when traveling north.
Three days after the battle, following a cease-fire, Stonewall Jackson's force withdrew to Gordonsville. Most of the Confederate dead and at least 405 Federal soldiers were buried on the field. All but one, N.B. Phillips, were in unmarked graves. . . . — — Map (db m203639) HM
On North Main Street (Route 45) at Early Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
The cemetery just east of here was established in 1862 to inter Confederate soldiers who died at the Farmville General Hospital. The hospital, open from 1862 to 1865, could accommodate 1,500 patients, many of whom suffered from contagious diseases . . . — — Map (db m171706) HM
On Jackson Avenue, 0.1 miles west of Longstreet Road, on the right when traveling south.
Hundreds of men were interred here after dying in the Farmville Confederate Hospital 1862 - 1865
Sesquicentennial Remembrance by Farmville Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy — — Map (db m171707) HM WM
On Lee Street west of Berryman Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
The remains of 1,323 Federal soldiers, 148 of them unknown, who died in Danville’s Civil War prisons are interred here. Many died from smallpox which ravaged the six prisons during the winter of 1863-1864.
The names of the dead were recorded . . . — — Map (db m66010) HM
On Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 627) 0.5 miles north of White Oak Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling north.
One of the Confederates trying to stem Gen. Crawford's Union troops was James Breckenridge. Born in Fincastle, Virginia he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and the law school at the University of Virginia. At the outbreak of the war . . . — — Map (db m180070) HM
On Shippings Road (Virginia Route 709) at McKenney Highway (Virginia Route 40), on the right when traveling north on Shippings Road.
Sapony Episcopal Church stands approximately 1.5 miles to the north. This simple frame building was first constructed in 1725-1726. The Rev. Devereux Jarratt served as rector here and at two other congregations in Dinwiddie County from 1763 until . . . — — Map (db m26841) HM
On 7th Avenue, 0.1 miles south of Accomac Street, on the right when traveling south.
This cemetery is the final resting place for thousands of patients treated at the nation's first stand-alone psychiatric hospital for African Americans, originally known as the Central Lunatic Asylum and later renamed Central State Hospital. The . . . — — Map (db m180083) HM
Near Duncan Road (Virginia Route 670), on the left when traveling south.
Many nineteenth-century Virginians buried deceased family members near their homes rather than in distant church yards. While we do not know when this cemetery was established, the only grave marker on this property belonged to Martha Eliza T. . . . — — Map (db m15450) HM
On Water Lane just south of Queen Street (U.S. 360), on the left when traveling south.
This was the family burying ground of Benjamin and Elizabeth Blake who lived nearby on Prince Street. Their graves on the left-hand (north) side date to the early 1830s. Their daughter, Frances Blake married eminent physician and Virginia Delegate, . . . — — Map (db m176100) HM
On US 17 just south of Parker Place, on the right when traveling south.
William “Bill” Moore was born in Georgia in 1893. Nearby stood his home and barbershop. Paramount recorded Moore in Chicago in 1928 and released eight songs, some of the earliest by an African American folk performer from Virginia. They . . . — — Map (db m7411) HM
On Main Street (Virginia Route 236) east of Judicial Drive, on the right when traveling east.
From Fairfax to
Appomattox
1861 - 1865.
Erected to the memory of the gallant sons of Fairfax, whose names are inscribed on this monument; but whose bodies lie buried on distant battle-fields; and to the memory of their 200 unknown . . . — — Map (db m218373) WM
On Main Street (Virginia Route 236) east of Judicial Drive, on the right when traveling east.
It was erected to the memory of "the gallant sons of Fairfax whose names are inscribed on this monument but whose bodies lie buried on distant battlefields and their 200 unknown comrades whose remains are at rest under this mound." — — Map (db m218374) HM
On Moore Street east of Keith Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Richard Ratcliffe (1752–1825) and wife Locian (1760–1826) are believed to be buried in this family cemetery along with their sons John, Samuel, Robert and Charles, and members of their respective families. Most tombstones found today are traceable . . . — — Map (db m76715) HM
Near Old Lee Highway at Heritage Lane, on the right when traveling west.
Rezin Samuel Willcoxon purchased this parcel of land c. 1806. He and his wife, Betsey DeNeale Willcoxon (1780-1845) lived here with their 10 children. Rezin's gravestone (far left) notes his service as a captain of cavalry unit in . . . — — Map (db m197420) HM
Near Jackies Lane east of Brosar Court when traveling east.
Rumored to have been a slave cemetery, this burial ground is the final resting place of several white and black residents of Gum Springs.
In 1762, Humphrey Peake inherited three slaves — Caesar, Ben and Allee; a mare named Flower, five . . . — — Map (db m131555) HM
Near Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 235) at Mount Vernon Memorial Parkway.
There are no records that document the number of enslaved or free African-Americans who are buried in this cemetery. From oral histories and a handful of early 19th-century visitor accounts, estimates range from 100-150 people. Among those . . . — — Map (db m112650) HM
Near Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 235) at Mount Vernon Memorial Parkway.
In 1929, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association placed a marker noting the location of the slave cemetery, believed to be the first commemoration of its kind at a historic site. Despite this recognition, the burial ground lay unattended for decades, . . . — — Map (db m112855) HM
Near George Washington Memorial Parkway at Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, on the right when traveling south.
”The family vault at Mount Vernon requiring repairs and being improperly situated besides, I desire that a new one of Brick, and upon a larger Scale, may be built at the foot of what is commonly called the Vineyard Inclosure …” . . . — — Map (db m13146) HM
On Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 235) 0.1 miles south of Grist Mill Woods Way, on the right when traveling south.
This 152-acre historic district was part of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. In 1799 Washington gave the Woodlawn tract to his step-granddaughter Eleanor Park Custis and her husband, Lawrence Lewis. Northern Quakers bought the property in . . . — — Map (db m140950) HM
Near Little River Turnpike (Virginia Route 236) east of Wakefield Chapel Road (County Route 710).
Virginia aristocrat William Fitzhugh was granted 21,996 acres in 1694: The Ravensworth tract, which was divided into northern and southern halves in 1701 and subsequently subdivided among Fitzhugh heirs throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The . . . — — Map (db m617) HM
Near Woodburn Road, 0.3 miles west of Gallows Road (Virginia Route 650), on the left when traveling west.
At the turn of the 20th century, a close-knit African American community was established here. The Johnson, Robinson, Sprigg and Collins families were the first to purchase lots. They cleared pine trees to enable truck farming and saw mill . . . — — Map (db m100807) HM
On Fairfax County Parkway (Virginia Route 286) at Lee Chapel Road (County Route 643), on the right when traveling north on Fairfax County Parkway.
On this site stood Lee Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal Church, built 1871 and named in honor of General Robert E. Lee. Lee Chapel replaced Mount Carmel Church which had been located at Ox Road and present day Lee Chapel Road and had been destroyed by . . . — — Map (db m11) HM
Near Braddock Road (Virginia Route 620) 0.5 miles west of Pleasant Valley Road (Virginia Route 609), on the left when traveling west.
It's a full-size, astronomically accurate replica of the outer ring of Stonehenge made entirely of styrofoam. It was created by artist Mark Cline of Enchanted Castle Studio in 2004, and originally stood in Natural Bridge, VA. Foamhenge . . . — — Map (db m141625) HM
On Battery Ridge Lane, on the right when traveling east.
Located 40 ft. south of this location is the Flagler and Forsyth Family Cemetery, 1866.
Located 80 ft. to the north is a Civil War Fortification, 1861-1862. This was a part of a large military complex that extended from Centreville to . . . — — Map (db m15004) HM
On Fort Drive north of Upperridge Road, on the right when traveling north.
In June 1994, a well-preserved male skeleton was found buried in a then-wooded area a few yards in front of you and reported to authorities. Remnants of a woolen uniform jacket with military-style brass buttons covered the upper half of the remains. . . . — — Map (db m134315) HM
Passing armies occupied and fortified Centreville, positioned between Washington, D.C., and Manassas Junction, beginning in July 1861 when Confederate and Union forces met during the war's first significant campaign. As American and British . . . — — Map (db m57135) HM
Near Old Yates Ford Road (Route 612) at Kincheloe Road, on the left when traveling west.
This burial ground of enslaved people is tangible evidence of the system of slavery which existed in Virginia until the end of the Civil War when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution banned the practice. These individuals were held in bondage . . . — — Map (db m197390) HM
On Ox Road (Virginia Route 123) at Fairfax Station Road, on the right when traveling south on Ox Road.
Here at Fairfax Station in early Sept. 1862, after the Second Battle of Manassas and the action near Chantilly, Clara Barton ministered to the suffering. By her humane and tireless efforts this Angel of the Battlefield helped move over 3000 wounded . . . — — Map (db m102) HM
Near Forney Loop, on the right when traveling east.
This quarter-mile trail leads to the Fairfax Family Cemetery. It was common practice in the 18th century for residents of estates to be buried in family cemeteries on their property. William Fairfax and his wife Deborah, who died in 1757 and 1747, . . . — — Map (db m35136) HM
Near Forney Loop south of Fairfax Drive, on the left when traveling south.
This monument, erected circa 1924 by the Fairfax family, memorializes William Fairfax, who built Belvoir, and his wife Deborah Clarke, who died in 1757 and 1747, respectively. The monument also honors Thomas and William Henry Fairfax, two of . . . — — Map (db m39021) HM
On Dranesville Road (Virginia Route 228) 0.1 miles south of Bennett Street, on the right when traveling south.
Since 1880, when a group of Herndon residents formed a Cemetery Association, these grounds have served Herndon as the final resting place for many local residents. Its 23 acres were mostly consolidated from land owned by the Barker and Detwiler . . . — — Map (db m186890) HM
Near Dranesville Road (Virginia Route 228) 0.1 miles south of Bennett Street, on the right when traveling south.
The Town of Herndon commemorates the Chestnut Grove Cemetery Association, incorporated January 18, 1954, as volunteer trustees to provide for the operation, maintenance, and perpetual care of the Chestnut Grove Cemetery. Throughout the . . . — — Map (db m186891) HM
On Elden Street / Centreville Road (Virginia Route 228) south of Worldgate Drive.
Confederate spy Laura Ratcliffe was born in
Fairfax County in 1836. During the Civil War,
she became an acquaintance of Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart who introduced her to then-Lt. John Mosby in 1862. Mosby credited her with preventing his capture . . . — — Map (db m1642) HM
Near Arrowbrook Centre Drive west of Centreville Road (Virginia Route 657), on the right when traveling west.
In 1946 Hal and Ruth Launders settled here on what was then a farm on the road to Centreville just south of the town of Herndon. Hal lived in Washington before the War and worked in public relations. He served with the Coast Guard in the South . . . — — Map (db m205832) HM
On Coppermine Road (County Route 665) 0.2 miles west of River Birch Road, on the right when traveling west.
Moved to second edifice September 19, 1982 at 13615 Coppermine Road, before moving to third edifice located at 2516 Squirrel Hill Road on May 1, 1999
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church was organized in 1866 and held services in The Old Floris . . . — — Map (db m126641) HM
On Lorton Market Street (Virginia Route 600) south of Lorton Road (Virginia Route 642), on the left when traveling south.
In this vicinity, on Thursday, 6 April 1905, Deputy Sheriff George A. Malcolm was shot while attempting to arrest a man who had been harassing students at the Lorton Valley School. He died the following day at the Emergency Hospital in Washington, . . . — — Map (db m100654) HM
On Lorton Station Boulevard at Percy Simms Drive, on the left when traveling north on Lorton Station Boulevard.
The settlement of Lorton was named by Joseph Plaskett, who immigrated to Virginia from his home north of England in the scenic Lorton Valley. Plaskett became the first Lorton postmaster in 1875 and generations of Plasketts followed in his footsteps . . . — — Map (db m1818) HM
Near Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) at Old Colchester Road (Virginia Route 611), on the right when traveling north.
Revolutionary Soldier
Peter Wagener, III
1744 - 1798
Placed by
Fairfax County Chapter
DAR 1974
Original grave site in Colchester, Virginia marked by Fairfax County Chapter December 1955 — — Map (db m168136) HM WM
On Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) at Telegraph Road and Old Colchester Road (County Route 611), on the left when traveling south on Richmond Highway.
This building was begun in 1769 and completed by 1774, succeeding an earlier church two miles to the south. It was the Lower Church of Truro Parish, established in 1732, the parish of Mount Vernon and Gunston Hall. George William Fairfax, George . . . — — Map (db m13750) HM
Near Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) at Old Colchester Road (Virginia Route 611), on the right when traveling north.
This marker honors the service of the Revolutionary War Patriots and War of 1812 Veterans buried or memorialized on the grounds of historic Pohick Church
Revolutionary War Patriots
Patriot Charles Alexander, Sr •
Patriot Susanna Pearson . . . — — Map (db m168133) HM WM
On Gunston Road (Virginia Route 242), on the right when traveling south.
According to tradition, African Americans from the Mason Neck area and others who had recently moved to Virginia from Maryland formed a religious congregation in 1869. They built a log church on the north side of Gunston Road in 1878 where their . . . — — Map (db m133759) HM
Near Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) near Telegraph Road and Old Colchester Road (Virginia Route 611).
This stone's original inscription was Heare lyes bodey of Livt Willeame Herris who died May 16 : 1698 : aged : 065 years : By birth a Britaire : a good soldier a good husbnd & kinde : neighbour. Mr. Herris (Harris) was the father of Anne . . . — — Map (db m201) HM
Near Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) at Old Colchester Road (Virginia Route 611), on the right when traveling north.
The West Family of Alexandria
Originally buried at Cameron
Hugh West 1705 - 1754
Alexandria Founder & Trustee • Truro Parish Vestryman
Sybil Harrison West 1705 - 1787
Wife of Hugh • Distinguished Parishioner . . . — — Map (db m168137) HM
Near Richmond Highway (U.S. 1) near Telegraph Road and Old Colchester Road (County Route 611).
The remains from 29 graves were brought here from the Wagener family cemetery at Stisted, their plantation on the Occoquan River near Colchester. The Second Peter Wagener (1717–1774), Clerk of the Fairfax County Court (1752–1772), served . . . — — Map (db m202) HM
Near Gunston Road (Virginia Route 242) south of Springfield Drive, on the left when traveling south.
George Mason and his first wife, Ann Eilbeck Mason, began this burial ground in 1772. At that time, wealthy Virginians preferred to be buried at home instead of the local parish church. Multiple generations of women, men, and children—both . . . — — Map (db m133740) HM
On Richmond Highway (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling east.
Dr. William Brown, Revolutionary War physician, was born in Scotland and raised in Maryland. After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he established a practice in Alexandria. In 1775 he became surgeon of the 2nd Virginia Regiment. In . . . — — Map (db m127853) HM
On Courthouse Road at Chain Bridge Road (Virginia Highway 123), on the right when traveling east on Courthouse Road.
Before you is Flint Hill Cemetery, the resting place of many of this area's most prominent Civil War-era civilian and military figures. Twenty-four veterans, including four who served in Confederate Col. John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers, are . . . — — Map (db m59041) HM
Near Annandale Road south of Hillwood Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
In 1867, African Americans built Galloway United Methodist Church and established the historic cemetery you are facing. According to local tradition, before and during the Civil War enslaved people on the Dulany plantation secretly worshiped in the . . . — — Map (db m72029) HM
On Tinner Hill Road at South Washington Steet (U.S. 29), on the left when traveling north on Tinner Hill Road.
First president of the Falls Church branch of the N.A.A.C.P. and stonemason who quarried from the base of Tinner Hill, the billion year-old granite used in this monument. — — Map (db m151017) HM
On South West Street just north of South West Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Mass in the early 1870's was celebrated in the home of the Sewall family, known as Walnut Hill, on South West Street. In 1874 the mission of Falls Church was established by the Bishop of Richmond and administered by priests from Saint Mary's . . . — — Map (db m144996) HM
On John Marshall Highway (Virginia Route 55) at Leeds Manor Road (County Route 688) on John Marshall Highway.
Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry commander during the brilliant 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, was born on 23 Oct. 1828 just north at Rose Bank. From 1853 to 1858, Ashby operated a mercantile business in a large frame building just to the . . . — — Map (db m1399) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) 0.1 miles east of Delaplane Grade Raod (Virginia Route 712), on the right when traveling east.
Mary E. Conover Mellon lived nearby with her second husband, the philanthropist Paul Mellon. Interested in the humanities and deeply influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, she was instrumental in establishing the Bollingen Series of . . . — — Map (db m208635) HM
On South Chestnut Street, 0.1 miles south of West Lee Street, on the left when traveling south.
All records in the Town Office, information from tombstones and United Daughters of the Confederacy records have been reviewed to determine the location of Veterans listed. According to records, all individuals named are interred in this . . . — — Map (db m151309) WM
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