Entries Containing All of the Phrases «henrico county» AND «virginia»

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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «henrico county» AND «virginia»

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By Bernard Fisher, March 7, 2016

Chickahominy Water Trail (left panel)

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1 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Sandston — Chickahominy Water Trail —

(left panel) The Chickahominy Tribe The Chickahominy Tribe originally lived in permanent villages along the Chickahominy River. The Chickahominy were among the first indigenous people to encounter European settlers. Tribal members . . . — — Map (db m92903) HM

2 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — Z-147 — Hanover County / Henrico County —

Hanover County. Area 512 Square Miles. Formed in 1720 from New Kent, and named for the Electorate of Hanover. Patrick Henry and Henry Clay were born in this county. In it were fought the battles of Gaines's Mill, 1862, and Cold . . . — — Map (db m15455) HM

3 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Sandston — Z-163 — Henrico County / New Kent County — Area 280 Square Miles / 191 Square Miles — Reported missing

Henrico County. Area 280 Square Miles. An original shire formed in 1634. Named for Henrico Town, founded in 1611, which was named for Henry, Prince of Wales. The battles of Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Glendale, and Malvern . . . — — Map (db m298735) HM

4 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — W-221 — Virginia Estelle Randolph (1870-1958) —

The daughter of parents born into slavery, Virginia Randolph taught here in the one-room Mountain Road School beginning in the mid-1890s. A gifted teacher, she became in 1908 the nation's first countywide Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher, a . . . — — Map (db m314293) HM

5 ► Virginia, Richmond, Upper Shockoe Valley — 16 — Richmond’s African Burial Ground —

"Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi." "It is not wrong to go backfor that which you have forgotten." - A proverb of the Akan people of West Africa

— — Map (db m256300) HM

6 ► Virginia, Richmond, Upper Shockoe Valley — 16 — Richmond's African Burial Ground — Richmond Slave Trail — Reported permanently removed

“Se wo were fin a wosankofa a yenkyi.” “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” -A proverb of the Akan people of West Africa

An elder once said that . . . — — Map (db m207393) HM

7 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — Henrico History — Reported permanently removed

In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale established the second English settlement in the Virginia Colony. Dale named the town Henrico in honor of Henry, Prince of Wales. In 1612, Virginia’s economy was transformed when John Rolfe introduced a new form of . . . — — Map (db m257708) HM

8 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Laurel — Henrico County — Virginia’s Second Settlement —

In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale founded the Citie of Henricus, the second settlement in the Colony of Virginia which later became Henrico County. Henrico, named for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King James I, became one of the original eight . . . — — Map (db m39688) HM

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9 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — V-31 — John Rolfe — 1585-1622 —

John Rolfe emigrated from England to Virginia in 1610 and settled in what was to become Henrico County. In 1612 he imported tobacco seeds from Trinidad and cultivated a new strain of mild tobacco. He shipped part of his harvest to England in 1614, . . . — — Map (db m25010) HM

10 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — E-4 — Brook Road —

According to tradition, the Marquis de Lafayette marched his colonial troops from the north into Richmond on portions of present-day Brook Road late in April 1781. Established in 1812, the Brook Turnpike Company constructed a turnpike along this . . . — — Map (db m15847) HM

11 ► Virginia, Lexington — William A. Paulette — Class of 1969 —

Arriving at VMI from South Hill, Virginia, Bill Paulette was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1969. As a cadet, he balanced the demands of his academic and athletic interest skillfully lettering in both varsity . . . — — Map (db m254472) HM

12 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — W-221 — Virginia Estelle Randolph — Reported permanently removed

The daughter of parents born in slavery, Virginia Randolph (1874-1958) taught in a one-room schoolhouse beginning in 1892. A gifted teacher, she became in 1908 the nation's first Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher, a position sponsored by the . . . — — Map (db m25365) HM

13 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — HC-43 — James Crewes —

English merchant James Crewes (1623-1677), emigrated to Virginia by 1655 and acquired a 541 acre plantation at Turkey Island. As a planter, burgess from Henrico County and militia officer, Crewes disagreed with the governor's policies related to . . . — — Map (db m137715) HM

14 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — HC-22 — John Marshall's Farm —

Near this location stood Chickahominy Farm, the country residence of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. Spending weekends at the farm with his wife, Marshall wrote that farming provided many hours of "laborious relaxation." Born in 1755, Marshall . . . — — Map (db m20730) HM

15 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — V-53 — The War of 1812 / Richmond's War of 1812 Defensive Camps —

The War of 1812. Impressment of Americans into British service and the violation of American ships were among the causes of America’s War of 1812 with the British, which lasted until 1815. Beginning in 1813, Virginians suffered from a British . . . — — Map (db m95890) HM

16 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Varina — The Frayser Family —

You are located on a tract of land formerly owned by the Frayser family. This was the home of Jesse Frayser (1764-1827) and his wife Keziah Frayser (1761-1854). Jesse Frayser was a private in the Virginia Militia under the command of General Gates . . . — — Map (db m101376) HM

17 ► Virginia, Patrick County, Ararat — 10 — The Legacy of Jeb Stuart —

In the years following his death, Stuart came to be a leading symbol of the Southern culture of the Lost Cause and of Virginia's Cavalier idolization. The poet Stephen Vincent Benet depicted Stuart in his epic poem John Brown's Body (1928) . . . — — Map (db m295660) HM

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18 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — Spring Park — Healing Waters —

The earliest record of the property shows that Samuel Williamson owned the 400 acre tract in 1796. His son, Dabney, who inherited the property, owned a slave by the name Lewis who participated in Gabriel’s Rebellion in 1800. Lewis attempted to . . . — — Map (db m24748) HM

19 ► Virginia, Richmond, Carver — SA-138 — Moore Street Baptist Church —

Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church, originally several blocks east of here, was dedicated on 18 April 1875 to serve an area of the Sheep Hill community later known as Carver. The Rev. William Troy, an founder of the church and its first . . . — — Map (db m310325) HM

20 ► Virginia, Richmond, Wilton — SA-29 — Wilton —

A short distance south is Wilton, a Georgian manor house built ca. 1753 for William Randolph III and his wife, Ann Carter Harrison. As a widow, Anne endorsed the Virginia nonimportation association of 1769 protesting taxes levied by Parliament. . . . — — Map (db m314302) HM

21 ► Virginia, Chesterfield County, Bellwood — 7 — Drewry’s Bluff — Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James — www.johnsmithtrail.org —

John Smith recalled visiting the Arrohateck Indian capital during a May 1607 expedition led by Christopher Newport. The town was located on the northern shore of the James River opposite of here and was noted on John Smith’s 1612 Map of Virginia. . . . — — Map (db m37032) HM

22 ► Virginia, Chesterfield County, Chester — K-203 — Colonel Thomas Lygon —

Colonel Thomas Lygon, who came to the Virginia colony in the early 1640s from Worcestershire, England, patented several large parcels of land on the north bank of the Appomattox River in an area known as The Cowpens, near Mount My Lady, which was . . . — — Map (db m17131) HM

23 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — Log Tobacco Barn —

This log tobacco barn is the only surviving one in Henrico County and was located off Lanceor Drive west of Staples Mill Road on property owned by the Cross family. In 2000, Staples Mill, L.C. donated the barn to Henrico County, who moved it two . . . — — Map (db m272313) HM

24 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — HC-21 — Chatsworth School —

Chatsworth School was built circa 1915 as a one-room schoolhouse for the black children of the Antioch Community. Chatsworth was one of approximately twenty black schools in Henrico County supervised by the visionary educator, Virginia E. Randolph. . . . — — Map (db m25489) HM

25 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Laurel — EA-3 — Laurel Historic District —

Laurel, first named Hungary Station, was the location of a spur railroad line to the coal fields in western Henrico County. During the Civil War the station here was burned, and Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren's body was secretly buried here in March 1864 . . . — — Map (db m10650) HM

26 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — HC-26 — Belmont —

Edward J. Warren, a farmer, was the first owner of the house on 100 acres in 1858. Warren, a private in the 34th Virginia Infantry, was captured by Union troops and held prisoner at Fort Monroe. The property is first referred to as Belmont in the . . . — — Map (db m24750) HM

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27 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — HC-17 — Gravel Hill —

Following a successful case before the Virginia Court of Appeals in 1777, the slaves of John Pleasants were allowed to follow the dictates of his 1771 will and were freed. His son, Robert Pleasants then gave seventy-eight former slaves 350 acres of . . . — — Map (db m17693) HM

28 ► Virginia, Powhatan County, Powhatan — O-25 — Dunlora Academy —

Two and a half miles north, on Dunlora plantation then owned by Mrs. Ann Hickman, the Virginia Baptist Education Society established, in 1830, a school for ministers. This school, under the principalship of Rev. Edward Baptist, M.A., was known . . . — — Map (db m21137) HM

29 ► Virginia, Richmond, Chamberlayne Industrial Center — E-1 — Bacon’s Quarter —

Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), leader of Bacon’s Rebellion, acquired land in 1674 at Curles Neck in Henrico County and property near the falls on the north side of the James River that became known as Bacon’s Quarter in what is now present-day . . . — — Map (db m1895) HM

30 ► Virginia, Richmond, Maymont — Estate Crossroads —

At this crossroads, the natural beauty of the landscape and several roadways of the estate intersect. The nearby stream is called Dooley Branch, named for James and Sallie Dooley who purchased the 100-acre property in 1886 and . . . — — Map (db m256250) HM

31 ► Virginia, Richmond, Shockoe Bottom — SA-34 — Craig House —

The Craig House, perhaps Richmond’s second oldest structure, was built between 1784 and 1787 by Adam Craig (b. ca. 1760–d. 1808). He was clerk of the Richmond Hustings Court, the Henrico County Court, and the General Court. To save the house, . . . — — Map (db m1901) HM

32 ► Virginia, Richmond, Belle and Mayo Islands — 9 — Mayo's Bridge — Richmond Slave Trail —

“The Union soldiers would put out the fires and push into the city within hours of the Confederates passing over the bridges. Among the first Union soldiers to put down their muskets and pick up fire hoses and axes would be several . . . — — Map (db m41840) HM

33 ► Virginia, Richmond, Capitol District — Voices from the Garden — The Virginia Women's Monument —

This monument stands as an enduring tribute to all of Virginia's women, both renowned and unrecognized, who have shaped over 400 years of our culture, our country, and our great Commonwealth. ❶ Anne Burras Laydon . . . — — Map (db m216636) HM

34 ► Virginia, Richmond, Capitol District — Voices from the Garden — The Virginia Women's Monument —

35 ► Virginia, Richmond, Three Chopt — Bandy Field Nature Park —

Historical Significance ■ Bandy Field Nature Park, named after the adjoining Bandy Road, is located at the highest elevation in the City of Richmond. ■ It was part of the outer defenses of Richmond during hte Civil War. . . . — — Map (db m314298) HM

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36 ► Virginia, Goochland County, Maidens — Maidens, Virginia —

This area was most likely first named for "Maiden's Adventure Farm," a nearby estate mentioned in the 1755 will of John Fleming. By 1824, construction of the James River and Kanawha Canal reached Maidens Adventure. In 1825 the Maidens Adventure Dam . . . — — Map (db m257024) HM

37 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — HC-31 — Mercer Hugh Cosby Farm —

Significant for its ownership by one African-American family dating back to the late 1800s, Mercer Hugh Cosby built the farmhouse in the 1880s on 52-acres. He grew tobacco and had an orchard on the property. The farm passed to his youngest son . . . — — Map (db m64014) HM

38 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — EA-2 — Walkerton —

Constructed in 1825 for John Walker on Mountain Road, once a major route between Richmond and the western Piedmont of Virginia, Walkerton served as a tavern in 1828 and 1829. Since that time it has been a hotel, store, voting precinct, and private . . . — — Map (db m15823) HM

39 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — The Dorey Family — Dairy Farmers in Henrico —

Dairy farming became the new agricultural industry in Henrico County during the period following the Civil War. As early as 1880, there were 2,181 milk cows in the county. By the early 20th century, agriculturists boasted Henrico as the “Dairy . . . — — Map (db m115645) HM

40 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Henrico — HC-45 — Ziontown Community —

The Ziontown Community is located on Ridge Road at Fountain Lane, extending south and ending at River Road. It was founded by Henry Pryor who was born in 1825 in Albemarle, Virginia. Pryor, an enslaved man, was brought to Henrico County when he was . . . — — Map (db m233792) HM

41 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — HC-11 — New Market Road —

Legend indicates that the road was once an Indian trail. In the early nineteenth century, a "new market" was established in Richmond to replace the old one in Williamsburg. This road was eventually referred to as New Market Road. The 1819 Wood's . . . — — Map (db m9241) HM

42 ► Virginia, Richmond, The West End — SA-124 — Westwood Baptist Church —

This church, two blocks north, traces its origins to 1872, when a group of formerly enslaved African Americans began meeting for Bible study at the home of Robert Pemberton. In 1876, the congregation's trustees purchased a half-acre lot for $25 for . . . — — Map (db m212526) HM

43 ► Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Columbia — The Columbia Race Riots —

In 1816, Captain Izard Bacon, a wealthy slaveholder of Henrico County, Virginia, liberated fifty-six slaves. Some of his heirs tried to hold them in slavery; but, after long litigation, they obtained freedom. Charles Granger, a nephew of Bacon, . . . — — Map (db m241494) HM

44 ► Virginia, Colonial Heights — The Old Brick (Kennon) House —

A prosperous Bermuda Hundred merchant, Richard Kennon was in Virginia prior to 1670 and represented Henrico County several times in the House of Burgesses. Kennon married Elizabeth Worsham in 1675 and settled here on Conjurer's Neck after . . . — — Map (db m103890) HM

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45 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond — The Potters of Four Mile Creek — Art and Industry in 19th Century Henrico —

Norwich Mills/Randolph Pottery During the first half of the nineteenth century, potters in the Four Mile Creek area of eastern Henrico County used the local clay deposits to produce a wealth of stoneware vessels whose artistry elevated them . . . — — Map (db m283059) HM

46 ► Virginia, Patrick County, Ararat — 7 — The Death of Col. Henry Clay Pate —

Fifth Virginia Cavalry In an attempt to slow the Union assault, Lomax moved the rest of his brigade including Col. Pate and his Fifth Virginia Cavalry into position in a shallow cut of Telegraph Road. Stuart observed the action taking place . . . — — Map (db m295651) HM

47 ► Virginia, Richmond, Upper Shockoe Valley — SA-66 — Execution of Gabriel — Reported permanently removed

Near here is the early site of the Richmond gallows and “Burial Ground for Negroes.” On 10 Oct. 1800, Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith from Brookfield plantation in Henrico County, was executed there for attempting to lead a mass uprising against . . . — — Map (db m15116) HM

48 ► Virginia, Charles City County, Charles City — Piney Grove — The Front Line and the Home Front —

In Virginia, the “Home Front” and the “Front Line” were often just miles apart during the Civil War. In places such as Charles City County families provided their men for troops and also lost the income from their plantations and other businesses . . . — — Map (db m18589) HM

49 ► Virginia, Fairfax County, Chantilly — Walney Outbuildings — Outbuilding Foundation — Ellanor C. Lawrence Park — Reported missing

“They have a queer way of building one thing after another, the great point being to have a separate shed or out-house for every purpose…You will find a carpenter’s shop, tool room, coach-shed, pig-house, stable, kitchen, two or . . . — — Map (db m8344) HM

50 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart —

This monument, erected in memory of Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart, C.S.A., by his cavalrymen about thirty feet from the spot where he fell mortally wounded on May 11, 1864, was dedicated June 18, 1888, by the Governor of Virginia, . . . — — Map (db m202681) HM

51 ► Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Columbia — Free African Communities in Columbia —

Sawneytown Sawneytown was the free African community in Columbia. Per the History of Lancaster County (published in 1883) written by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, in 1813 Robert Magill laid out lots on Filbert Street (present day Union . . . — — Map (db m241490) HM

52 ► Virginia, Goochland County, Short Pump — 28-Z — Goochland County / Henrico County —

Goochland County Area 287 square miles Formed in 1727 from Henrico and named for William Gooch, Governor of Virginia, 1727-1749. Cornwallis and Lafayette passed though this county in 1781. Henrico County Area 280 square miles . . . — — Map (db m256978) HM

53 ► Virginia, Hanover County, Doswell — Stop 13 — Stalemate — May 26-27, 1864 — Blue Trail —

On May 26, General Grant admitted that he finally encountered an unmovable object; Lee's defenses on the North Anna River. His telegram to General Henry Halleck in Washington declared that "to make a direct attack from either wing would cause a . . . — — Map (db m145740) HM

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54 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — Courtney Road Service Station — The Birth of Modern Automotive Services —

Before there were gas stations, motorists would get a drum of fuel from an industrial depot, bring it home, and store it. Soon after, consumers got their gasoline at the blacksmith shops and hardware and grocery stores. Still others received . . . — — Map (db m24597) HM

55 ► Virginia, Chesterfield County, Midlothian — Mid-Lothian Mines and Rail Roads —

Early History of the Grove Shaft 1836-61 The Grove Shaft plunged 625 feet and took workmen three years to dig. The Wooldridges employed 150 men and boys. Twenty-five mules stabled underground pulled coal carts on an underground railroad. . . . — — Map (db m294400) HM

56 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Varina — New Market Heights — To Surprise and Capture Richmond —

"The prize sought is either Richmond or Petersburg, or a position that will secure the fall of the latter." — Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, US Army By the fall of 1864, Union armies under General Ulysses S. Grant were locked in a brutal . . . — — Map (db m257626) HM

57 ► Virginia, Patrick County, Ararat — 6 — The Battle of Yellow Tavern —

Glen Allen, Henrico Courty, Virginia On May 11, in the mists of the predawn, the combatants were assembling for the battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles from the gates of Richmond. Stuart's cavalry raced south from Beaverdam to get ahead . . . — — Map (db m295650) HM

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