Historical Markers and War Memorials in King William, Virginia
King William is the county seat for King William County
King William is in King William County
King William County(45) ► ADJACENT TO KING WILLIAM COUNTY Caroline County(64) ► Hanover County(282) ► King and Queen County(28) ► New Kent County(56) ►
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On King William Road (Virginia Route 30) at Powhatan Trail (Virginia Route 633), on the right when traveling east on King William Road.
Cockacoeske became the Queen of the Pamunkey after her husband Totopotomoy’s death in 1656 fighting as an ally of the English at what became known as the Battle of Bloody Run. She signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1677 in the wake of settler . . . — — Map (db m25841) HM
Near Horse Landing Road (Route 619) just north of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 1301), on the right when traveling north.
Dedicated to the memory of
Henry Fox
First Presiding Justice of this court
April 20, 1702
and also a burgess and sheriff of King William County who with Captain Richard Littlepage jointly deeded on January 20, 1702 to the newly formed . . . — — Map (db m175968) HM
Near Horse Landing Road (Virginia Route 619) just north of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 1301), on the right when traveling north.
In memory of Henry Jenner Jones born in King William County, Virginia on March 10, 1847, a VMI cadet, Private D Company, killed in the Battle of New Market on May 15, 1864. — — Map (db m175970) WM
On Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 1301) at Horse Landing Road (Virginia Route 619), on the right when traveling west on Courthouse Road.
The King William County courthouse, erected early in the second quarter of the 18th century, is one of the older courthouses still in use in the United States. This T-shaped building was constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond, with an arcade . . . — — Map (db m25847) HM
On King William Road (Route 30) south of Walkerton Road (Virginia Route 629), on the left when traveling south.
King William Training School was erected here in 1922-23 on the site of the King William Academy (1903-22). The Rosenwald Foundation, which built more than 5,300 black schools in the South, the African American community, and the county funded the . . . — — Map (db m47168) HM
On Mount Olive Cohoke Road (Virginia Route 632) at Powhatan Trail (Virginia Route 633), on the right when traveling south on Mount Olive Cohoke Road.
Established 1876
Lanesville Christadelphian Church
Founded in 1845
Home of one of the oldest congregations of the Christadelphian Church in the United States
Dr. Lemuel Edwards led the church for 60 years.
Property of The . . . — — Map (db m214624) HM
On King William Road (Virginia Route 30) at Powhatan Trail (Virginia Route 633), on the right when traveling east on King William Road.
Eight miles south is the reservation on which the Pamunkey Indians live. The land has never been in non-Indian ownership and the Pamunkey live on it under a treaty made in 1677. In the early seventeenth century the Pamunkey were a chiefdom ruled by . . . — — Map (db m25840) HM
On Lay Landing Road, 0.2 miles east of Pocahontas Trail (Virginia Route 673), on the left when traveling east.
Powhatan, symbol of American tobacco, was a child of Virginia Indians. His daughter Pocahontas wed John Rolfe, who grew the first commercial crop of tobacco in the Jamestown settlement. — — Map (db m214678) HM
On Pocahontas Trail at Pocket Road, on the right when traveling south on Pocahontas Trail.
This stone commemorates
Princess Pocahontas of Matoaka
Daughter of
the mighty American Indian Chief Powhatan. Gentle and humane, she was the friend of the earliest struggling English colonists whom she nobly rescued, protected, and helped. . . . — — Map (db m214679) HM
On King William Road (Virginia Route 30) 0.1 miles east of Indian Church Road (Virginia Route 658), on the left when traveling east.
Sharon Indian School served as a center of education for the Upper Mattaponi Tribe. In 1919, the King William County School Board built a one-room frame building and the students' families provided the furniture. The county replaced the original . . . — — Map (db m25839) HM
