Front Dedicated to soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution who are buried in IowaDecember 28, 1846 Iowa Our liberties we prize our rights we will maintainReverse George Perkins, N. and S. Carolina, Lee County William . . . — — Map (db m48277) HM
This plantation, 1.5 mi. S. near Thicketty Creek, was settled about 1767 by John Nuckolls, Sr. (1732-1780), a native of Virginia. During the American Revolution, as the war in the backcountry became a vicious civil war, the plantation became . . . — — Map (db m39046) HM
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This cemetery, the oldest in Union, was established ca. 1817 and sometimes called the "village cemetery." In 1818 a Presbyterian "union" church used by other denominations as well moved here from a 1783 site about 2 mi. E. . . . — — Map (db m81836) HM
Built ca. 1859 in the Greek Revival style. Enderly was the home of William F. Gordon Jr. during the 1860s. Gordon served as clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1859 to 1865. He was temporary secretary of the convention that met in Richmond . . . — — Map (db m170656) HM
Within this fenced burial ground lie Confederate soldiers who died at Laurel Hill. Their number is unknown. Inscribed headboards once marked the graves. During the Civil War, disease killed more men than bullets. One soldier reported 14 graves in . . . — — Map (db m253809) HM
At Roundabout Plantation, eight miles southwest, Patrick Henry lived from 1765 to 1768, when he sat for Louisa County in the House of Burgesses. This was the beginning of his political career. — — Map (db m4829) HM
Albemarle County. Albemarle County was formed in 1744 from Goochland County and named for William Anne Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, titular governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. A portion of Louisa County was later added to . . . — — Map (db m4030) HM
Nelson County. In the foothills of Virginia’s Piedmont,
Nelson County was formed in 1807 from Amherst County. The county was named for Thomas Nelson, Jr., governor of Virginia from June to November 1781. The county seat is Lovingston. The . . . — — Map (db m44042) HM
Albemarle County. Albemarle County was formed in 1744 from Goochland County and named for William Anne Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, titular governor of Virginia from 1747 to 1754. A portion of Louisa County was later added to . . . — — Map (db m21585) HM
Albemarle County. Albemarle County was formed in 1744 from Goochland County and named for William Anne Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, titular governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. A portion of Louisa County was later added to . . . — — Map (db m22780) HM
As it enters its third century, the University of Virginia remembers the enslaved people whose labor and talents made possible the construction and operation of the Academical Village. Forced labor, incalculable suffering, and the struggle to . . . — — Map (db m256889) HM
In December 1763, the Historic Hanover Courthouse was the site of the famous Parsons’ Cause, an opening salvo of the American Revolution. During the Parsons’ Cause trial, Patrick Henry voiced one of the first American objections to denial of the . . . — — Map (db m32692) HM
A major part of the PFI curriculum under Principal Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps was the study of botany. Terraced gardens throughout the grounds provided the students with a living classroom to learn first-hand about the features of different . . . — — Map (db m205781) HM
These apple trees are antique varieties which are significant in the history of the State of Virginia as well as in apple propagation and development. They continue to be valued today for their hardiness, longevity and delicious fruit.
Duval . . . — — Map (db m179826) HM
Flora Molton (1908-1990) was a blues and gospel musician whose primary stage was the street, first at Seventh and F, and later 11th and F. Born visually impaired in Louisa County, Virginia, Molton moved to Washington in 1937 and soon began relying . . . — — Map (db m141271) HM
Late on the night of June 3, 1781, John "Jack" Jouett Jr. emerged from the tavern that once stood behind you, jumped on his horse Sally, and began his midnight ride to save Thomas Jefferson and Virginia's legislature from British capture. . . . — — Map (db m298075) HM
Throughout the period of slavery in Virginia, enslaved people sought freedom through acts of resistance, self-liberation, and rebellion. At the start of the Civil War, enslaved people sought to aid United States troops at Fort Monroe. On January . . . — — Map (db m256292) HM
Henry Brown was born and raised a slave in Louisa County, Virginia. He was hired out to work in the tobacco factories in Richmond, Virginia, where he met a northern sympathizer, Samuel Smith, who owned a shoemaker's shop. Through a small portion . . . — — Map (db m176125) HM
Began his perilous ride on horseback near this point, Cuckoo Tavern, to Monticello, between midnight and dawn on June 4, 1781, which saved Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia General Assembly in session at Charlottesville from capture by the . . . — — Map (db m113205) HM
Louisa County. Located in the heart of the Virginia Piedmont, this rural county was named for Louisa, a daughter of George II. It was formed from Hanover county in 1742, the county seat is Louisa. Among the county’s historic resources is the . . . — — Map (db m17751) HM
Orange County. Formed from Spotsylvania County in 1734, Orange County, a pastoral Piedmont county, was probably named in honor of William IV, the Dutch prince of Orange, who married Anne, the Princess Royal, daughter of George II of England, . . . — — Map (db m108411) HM
Featured here is a reproduction of a rail road track section that would have been built in accordance to an 1837 Agreement between the Louisa Rail-Road Company and providers of: "Rails, Sills (crossties) and Keys (wedges)…" for the railroad. . . . — — Map (db m170114) HM
It is January 18, 1773. Peering out of the window in front of you, Patrick Henry sits at his desk and tends to correspondence, contradictions swirling in his mind. He is writing to Robert Pleasants, a Quaker and abolitionist, lamenting about the . . . — — Map (db m281423) HM
Early on the morning of June 4, 1781, John "Jack" Jouett Jr. galloped up the road behind you, veering left on West Green Springs Rd. Just four hours after leaving the tavern in Cuckoo on the eastern side of Louisa County, he passed by this point . . . — — Map (db m293326) HM
Louisa Training School, the county’s first high
school for African American students, was built
three miles northwest in 1926 with aid from the
Rosenwald Fund. In 1953, Archie Gibbs Richardson
High School replaced it here as part of an . . . — — Map (db m107854) HM
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