Kilpatrick, coming from the east, burned Confederate stores here, May 5, 1863. Dahlgren, coming from Richmond, crossed the Mattapony here March 2, 1864. Sheridan, returning from his Richmond raid, was here, May 22-23, 1864, and on his Trevilian raid . . . — — Map (db m17803) HM
This property was home of Philip Aylett (1791-1848), for whom the village is named and who served in both the Virginia House and Senate. His son, William Roane Aylett (1833-1900), who rose to colonel in the Confederate army and later served as . . . — — Map (db m57712) HM
Federal infantry left the camps around Mangohick Church on the morning of May 28, 1864, and pressed southward toward the Pamunkey River. In order to speed up the pace of the march, the army followed parallel routes. The Second and Sixth Corps moved . . . — — Map (db m120819) HM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Referred to by William Byrd in 1732 as the New Brick Church, Mangohick Church was built circa 1730 as a chapel of ease for those who lived in remote areas of St. Margaret's Parish. Distinguished by its fine Flemish bond brickwork, Mangohick became . . . — — Map (db m17790) HM
This early 1800's bank barn is of post and beam construction. Most of the timber was hand hewed. Livestock were confined to the ground level and grain and feed were stored on the main level. The property was part of The Upper College Tract, a grant . . . — — Map (db m103586) HM
James L. Townsend Sr. was a pioneer in the dairy industry in King William County, Virginia. His son, Guy O. Townsend built the barn which has been a landmark on the Richmond-Tappahannock Highway for almost 90 years. A later addition at the end of . . . — — Map (db m103585) HM
Near here stood the town of Menmend, home of the paramount chief Opechancanough. During Powhatan's reign, Opechancanough was a king of the Pamunkey and a war chief of the Powhatans. He became paramount chief about 1629 when his brother Opitchipam . . . — — Map (db m25245) HM
Residents of the Pamunkey Reservation, 12 miles southeast of here, aided Union troops during the Civil War. About a dozen Pamunkey men enlisted as guides, scouts, gunboat pilots, and spies for Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac . . . — — Map (db m145380) HM
A memorial should "pay tribute to the past, be relevant to the present and be an inspiration to the future."
KIA - Killed In Action
MIA - Missing In Action
POW - Prisoner Of War
Post 8356, organized September 18, 1946
Land donated by . . . — — Map (db m175965) WM
On 13 August 1781, the Marquis de Lafayette encamped his army in King William County. He placed his militia four miles east between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers and stationed his light infantry - commanded by Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenburg . . . — — Map (db m25845) HM
About a mile to the east, August 13, 1781, Lafayette, then commanding American forces in Virginia, placed in camp his militia, consisting of Campbell's, Stevens' and Lawson's brigades. Wayne was at Westover; Muhlenberg and Febiger were in camp on . . . — — Map (db m25846) HM
Col. John West II (1633-1689) inherited 6,000 acres of this land from his father, John West I. Land-grant ca. 1650. John West II was taken prisoner during Bacon's Rebellion. He later sat on court martial for those "Rebels". He was Colonel of Militia . . . — — Map (db m218258) HM
Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived at West Point 1777-1786 after fire destroyed his plantation Chericoke, upriver on the Pamunkey. The town house no longer stands. From West Point Braxton channeled war goods to Patriot . . . — — Map (db m17602) HM
Shortly after paramount chief Opechancanough’s 1644 attacks on English settlers in response to the settlers’ encroachment on Indian lands, he was captured and put to death at Jamestown. His successor Necotowance signed a treaty, ratified by the . . . — — Map (db m17611) HM
In May 1623, Capt. William Tucker led English soldiers from Jamestown to meet with Indian leaders here in Pamunkey territory. The Indians were returning English prisoners taken in March 1622 during war leader Opechancanough’s orchestrated attacks on . . . — — Map (db m17612) HM
King William County. Area 263 Square Miles. Formed in 1701 from King and Queen, and named for King William III. Here lived Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
King and Queen County. Area 320 . . . — — Map (db m30140) HM
The building now occupied by the Historical Museum of West Point was originally the L. E. Mumford Bank. A Mumford Bank branch was originally located in West Point in 1901 in the old Masonic Lodge building which was on the corner of 5th and Main . . . — — Map (db m218255) HM
Lt. General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in the history of this country, was born on June 26, 1898 and grew up only a few houses away from where are standing. He joined the Marines in 1918 and did not retire until 1955 . . . — — Map (db m60948) HM
Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller was born on 26 June 1898 in West Point and lived here until entering Virginia Military Institute in 1917. He withdrew a year later and enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving more than 37 years. One of the Corps’ most . . . — — Map (db m17540) HM
Named for his "barrel chest," and having a bulldog face and gruff voice, West Point's native son remains the most decorated United States Marine in American history, known as "the Marine's Marine." He received five Navy Crosses for Valor, and was a . . . — — Map (db m218260) HM
Two miles east is the Mattaponi Indian reservation, home of descendants of the great chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. The reservation is situated on the Mattaponi River and is one of the oldest Indian reservations in the United States, existing . . . — — Map (db m25843) HM
African Americans held worship services in a nearby railroad toolshed during the Civil War. Jesse Dungee, later a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, organized the congregation (now known as Mt. Nebo) in 1866. The Gothic-Revival style . . . — — Map (db m167830) HM
This was the parish church of St. John's Parish, formed in 1680. It was built in 1734. Earlier churches stood at West Point and about one mile north of this site. Carter Braxton, Revolutionary Statesman, was a vestryman Preserved by joint effort. — — Map (db m25844) HM
On these grounds in the mid-1770s stood a Georgian-style house located in a "grove" of locust and aspen trees. For more than one hundred and forty-five years it would serve the West Point community in multiple capacities.
Carter Braxton, a . . . — — Map (db m218256) HM
On this spot with majestic views of the Mattaponi, Pamunkey and York Rivers stood The Terminal Hotel. It was a massive five-story Victorian building with pointed towers on each corner, 200 guest rooms and hundreds of windows. It was 40 X 126 with a . . . — — Map (db m218259) HM
Nearby on the Pamunkey River was the location of paramount chief Powhatan's primary temple site, Uttamusack, the spiritual center of the Powhatan Indians. On the site stood a holy house for Powhatan, and two additional temples also used for . . . — — Map (db m25848) HM