On Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) 0.1 miles south of Tavern Road, on the left when traveling south.
Early in June 1781, Maj. Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben saved some military stores at Point of Fork from British troops and then retreated south to Staunton River before being called to join Lafayette's forces. On 16 June Steuben crossed to the . . . — — Map (db m18357) HM
On Columbia Road at Boston Hill Road, on the right when traveling west on Columbia Road.
Clifton, one mile northeast of here, was the home of Carter Henry Harrison (ca. 1736-1793). The Georgian-style plantation house was built in the mid-18th century. Harrison, a member of the Cumberland County Committee of Safety, wrote the Cumberland . . . — — Map (db m294225) HM
On Columbia Road at Boston Hill Road, on the right when traveling west on Columbia Road. Reported permanently removed.
One mile north; home of Carter Henry Harrison, land patented, 1723. Harrison, as a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, wrote the instructions for independence (adopted April 22) presented by the county delegates to the Virginia convention . . . — — Map (db m294226) HM
Near Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) at Columbia Road ( Route 690), on the right when traveling south.
Parents in the Cartersville area of Cumberland County met in 1909 to discuss the need for a centralized high school to replace the one-room schools serving white children in the area at that time. The county Superintendent of Schools led the . . . — — Map (db m31609) HM
On Columbia Road at Flanagan Mill Road, on the left when traveling east on Columbia Road.
Here at Flannagan's (Trice's) Mill, Robert E. Lee spent the night of April 13-14, 1865, on his journey from Appomattox to Richmond. — — Map (db m21101) HM
Near Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) 0.1 miles north of Ampthill Road, on the right when traveling north.
Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., continued the efforts made by numerous philanthropists to bring education to African Americans in the South. During the early 1900s, funding for schools was scarce; the South had half . . . — — Map (db m21159) HM
On Columbia Road (Local Route 690) 0.1 miles north of Jackson Lane, on the right when traveling south.
In summer, 1781, Lt. Col. Simcoe led his Queen's Rangers and the 2nd Bt. of the 71st Highland Light Infantry in a successful raid upon the arsenal at Point of Fork. Baron von Steuben with some 400 recruits was able to save some of the weaponry by . . . — — Map (db m291493) HM
On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) just north of Foster Road, on the right when traveling south.
To the
Cumberland Troop
1861 - 1865.
To the
Cumberland Grays
1861 - 1865.
To the
Black Eagle Co.
1861 - 1865.
To the other
Cumberland soldiers
1861 - 1865
— — Map (db m171695) WM
On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) 0.6 miles west of Mosby road, on the left when traveling west.
Cumberland County. Area 293 square miles. Formed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776. . . . — — Map (db m21127) HM
On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Foster Road, on the right when traveling west on Anderson Highway.
In 1749 the Virginia House of Burgesses divided Goochland County to establish Cumberland County. William A. Howard, an associate of Thomas Jefferson's master builder, Dabney Cosby, built the present Cumberland County courthouse (1818-1821). The . . . — — Map (db m21121) HM
On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Foster Road, on the right when traveling west on Anderson Highway.
Near this place from the porch of Effingham Tavern on 22 April 1776, Carter Henry Harrison, a member of the Cumberland Committee for Safety, read the Resolutions of Cumberland County to citizens gathered there. These resolutions called for the . . . — — Map (db m67315) HM
On Foster Road at Anderson Highway (U.S. 60), on the left when traveling north on Foster Road. Reported permanently removed.
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, was born in Cumberland County, VA, to William Anderson and Sally Wyatt (Guy) Davis on September 25, 1882. He attended the public schools of Richmond, VA, and received his B.A. . . . — — Map (db m21150) HM
On Foster Road at Courthouse Circle, on the right when traveling south on Foster Road.
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, was born in Cumberland County, VA, to William Anderson and Sally Wyatt (Guy) Davis on September 25, 1882. He attended the public schools of Richmond, VA, and received his BA . . . — — Map (db m171696) HM
Near Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Courthouse Circle when traveling east.
John Robinson (born John Lipscomb), a free person of color from Cumberland Co., was a wagoner and landowner before the Civil War. Twice attacked by White men in 1864, he fled to Amelia Co. and later used the local courts to convict many of his . . . — — Map (db m270334) HM
On Trents Mill Road (County Route 622) at Oak Hill Road (County Route 629), on the right when traveling south on Trents Mill Road.
The Rev. Reuben T. Coleman, enslaved at birth, became an entrepreneur after the Civil War. About 1.5 miles north of here he established Lucyville, named for his daughter, which in the 1890s featured a bank, post office, newspaper, and mineral . . . — — Map (db m247281) HM
On Anderson Highway (Virginia Route 45) just south of Courthouse Circle, on the right when traveling south.
In honor of those from
Cumberland County
who served their country
in time of war
and, in memory of
those who made the
Supreme Sacrifice
— — Map (db m171694) WM
On North Main Street (State Highway 45) at River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.
Near here is the site of Bizarre, owned in 1742 by Richard Randolph of Curles. In 1781, his grandson, John Randolph of Roanoke, took refuge at Bizarre with his mother on account of Arnold's invasion. John Randolph lived here until 1810, when he . . . — — Map (db m30204) 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 0.2 miles east of Early Street, on the right when traveling south.
1861 Virginia 1865
Defenders of State "Sovereignty".
Confederate Heroes
List of companies organized
In the county 1861.
Company F 18th. Va. Inf’’ty.
" " D 18th, " " "
" " D 18th, " " "
" " I 23rd, " " "
" " K 21st, " " " . . . — — Map (db m290955) WM
On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the right when traveling south.
Union troops arrived here after crossing the Appomattox River at High Bridge and found Lee’s army entrenched around the church. After a series of Union attacks, Lee was forced to delay his movement until nightfall when he began marching towards . . . — — Map (db m171711) HM
On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the left when traveling north.
Here at Cumberland Church, in the afternoon of April 7, 1865, part of the Army of Northern Virginia entrenched to protect the route west to Appomattox Station, where supplies awaited the men. The Confederate line, across the road behind you, . . . — — Map (db m269766) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 45) at River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.
Cumberland County. Area 293 square miles. Formed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776.
Prince . . . — — Map (db m30212) HM
On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the right when traveling south.
After successfully crossing the Appomattox River at nearby High Bridge, Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys’ II Corps attacked Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. William Mahone that were entrenched on the high ground around Cumberland Presbyterian Church. . . . — — Map (db m11861) HM
On River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling west.
From here you can see the 1914 steel railroad bridge that spans the Appomattox River above the brick piers of the antebellum High Bridge, which carried the South Side Railroad. The old wooden bridge and the wagon bridge, just to the east of it, were . . . — — Map (db m29934) HM
Near River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
The "High" Bridge "There have been higher bridges not so long and longer bridges not so high, but taking the height and length together, this is, perhaps, the largest bridge in the world." C.O. Sanford, South Side Railroad's chief engineer, 1852 . . . — — Map (db m29915) HM
On Cumberland Road (State Highway 45), on the right when traveling north.
James F. Lipscomb was born a free black on 4 December 1830 in Cumberland County. He worked first as a farm laborer, then as a carriage driver in Richmond. In 1867 he returned to Cumberland County, where he accumulated more than 500 acres of land. . . . — — Map (db m30244) 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 Cumberland Road (State Highway 45), on the right when traveling south.
Just east of here is Needham, location of Virginia's first proprietary law school and home of founder Judge Creed Taylor (1766 - 1836), politician, jurist, and legal educator. Taylor's law school at Needham, which opened in 1821 and closed by 1840, . . . — — Map (db m30239) HM
On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45) north of Thompson Road (County Road 699), on the right when traveling south.
Samuel P. Bolling was born enslaved in Cumberland County and became a skilled mechanic. After the Civil War he purchased several lots in Farmville, where he established a successful brickyard by 1874. He later acquired more than 1,000 acres in . . . — — Map (db m238093) HM
Near River Road (County Route 600) at Jamestown Road (County Route 657), on the left when traveling south.
“There have been higher bridges not so long and longer bridges not so high, but taking the height and length together, this is, perhaps, the largest bridge in the world.”
-C.O. Sanford, South Side Railroad’s chief engineer,1852
In 1854 the . . . — — Map (db m83635) HM
