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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Northumberland County, Virginia
Adjacent to Northumberland County, Virginia
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| On Richmond Road (U.S. 360) just west of Hampton Hall Road (Virginia Route 202), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Two miles northeast, at Lodge, stood the Chambers Stamp Factory, owned by the same family for our generations. Founded in Washington, D.C., about 1830 by Benjamin Chambers, Sr., an engraver and inventor of a breech-loading cannon, the company . . . — — Map (db m22491) HM |
| On Richmond Road (U.S. 360) 0.1 miles south of Owl Town Road (Virginia Route 711), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Greater love hath
no man
than this,
that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
John 15:13 — — Map (db m158749) WM |
| On Richmond Road (Route 360) at Owl Town Road (County Route 711), on the right when traveling east on Richmond Road. |
| | The Rev. Paymus (Pyramus) Nutt, born into slavery, helped organize four African American churches in Northumberland County after the Civil War. In 1866 he co-founded First Baptist. Shiloh Baptist, established in 1867, called him to be its first . . . — — Map (db m99406) HM |
| On Hampton Hall Road (Virginia Route 202) at Locust Lane (Virginia Route 675), on the right when traveling west on Hampton Hall Road. |
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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 . . . — — Map (db m76405) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) 0.7 miles east of Walnut Point Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Virginia General Assembly incorporated the Northumberland Academy in 1818. The school provided classical education for male students to prepare them for college or positions of leadership in the community. Because universal state funded . . . — — Map (db m22949) HM |
| On Nurthumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Crabbetown Road (County Route 674), on the left when traveling east on Nurthumberland Highway. |
| | Five miles northeast is the site of Northumberland House, built by the third Peter Presley, who was murdered in 1750. He was the last male descendant of the first William Presley, who settled there and who was a Burgess as early as 1647. Mantua, . . . — — Map (db m22715) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Judicial Place, on the right when traveling east on Northumberland Highway. |
| | On 5 Sept. 1791, Robert Carter III (1728-1804), one of the wealthiest men in the United States, filed a deed of manumission at the Northumberland County Courthouse. This document eventually freed more than 500 enslaved African Americans owned by . . . — — Map (db m99410) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) just west of Rowes Landing Road (County Route 601), on the left when traveling east. |
| | John Heath was born on 8 May 1758 in Northumberland County. He attended William & Mary College and on 5 Dec. 1776, he and four of his classmates founded Phi Beta Kappa, a prestigious undergraduate honors organization. He became its first president. . . . — — Map (db m22550) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Monument Place, on the right when traveling east on Northumberland Highway. |
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In memory of
the soldiers of
Northumberland
who gave their lives for the
cause of their
native state
and the South.
This monument
is erected by the
Ladies Memorial
Association of
Northumberland
County
Capt. R. H. Hall. . . . — — Map (db m76413) WM |
| Near Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Monument Place, on the right when traveling east. |
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This site first patented in 1663 was the site of the first courthouse built c.1681. The present courthouse built in 1851 is the third on this site. — — Map (db m76414) HM WM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) just west of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 201), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Originally known as Hughlett’s Tavern, this building, located behind the courthouse, served visitors to court for more than 150 years. John Hughlett erected the original portion of the tavern before 1795. Griffin H. Foushee, who purchased it in . . . — — Map (db m22709) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) just west of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 201), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Formed in 1653 as Chickacone Parish and renamed Fairfield in 1664. The upper part was known locally as Bowtracy Parish. When St. Stephen’s Parish was formed in 1698, Fairfield became its lower part and Bowtracy its upper part. — — Map (db m22706) HM |
| On Hampton Hall Road (Virginia Route 202) just east of Locust Lane (County Route 675), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Two miles east on 3 Aug. 1814, 500 British marines
and seamen under Adm. Sir George Cockburn
landed at Mundy’s Point and Kinsale. Opposing
the enemy at the Point were Capt. William
Henderson and thirty Northumberland county
militiamen. . . . — — Map (db m97687) HM |
| On Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 200) at Morattico Church Road (County Route 679), on the left when traveling north on Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway. |
| | On the hill is Morattico Church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here. — — Map (db m24477) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Lewisetta Road (County Route 624), on the left when traveling east on Northumberland Highway. |
| | Settled by Englishmen about 1640, Cherry Point
was later a childhood home of Mary Ball, the
mother of George Washington. In August 1814
American militia repulsed a British force there.
From the early 1800s to the 1940s, steamboats
plied the . . . — — Map (db m22531) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360), on the left when traveling east. |
| | In 1868, Caroline Putnam (1826–1917) established a school for the children of former slaves here. In 1869, her lifelong friend, Sallie Holley (1818–1893) of N.Y., abolitionist and suffragette, purchased this two-acre site. Holley was an . . . — — Map (db m22532) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Forrest Landing Road (County Route 612), on the right when traveling west on Northumberland Highway. |
| | During the War of 1812, on 7 Aug. 1814 ten
British ships and smaller vessels appeared on
the Coan River, which flows into the Potomac.
The invaders sent three barges to capture
three American schooners situated within two
miles of . . . — — Map (db m22536) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) at Coan Stage Road (County Route 612), on the right when traveling east on Northumberland Highway. |
| | One mile west stands Coan Baptist Church. The Congregation, first known as Wicomico Baptist Church, was organized on 17 November 1804. The members worshiped in each other’s houses until a frame building, Coan Meeting House, was moved to this site in . . . — — Map (db m22534) HM |
| On Buzzard Point Road (County Route 656). |
| | Following paramount chief Opechancanough’s 1644 organized attacks against the English colonists for encroaching on Indian lands, Governor William Berkeley led further military strikes against the Virginia Indians in July 1645, taking many prisoners. . . . — — Map (db m46718) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) just east of Old Bethany Road (County Route 703), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Originally known as Northumberland County Training School, this institution opened in 1917, under principal John M. Ellison. Local African Americans raised more than $7,000 to build the school and received additional funding from the Rosenwald Fund. . . . — — Map (db m22954) HM |
| On Morris-Fisher Stock Lane west of Menhaden Road (County Route 659). |
| | This stack was constructed around 1902 by the Morris-Fisher Co. At the time it was the largest commercial fish processing plant in the United States. In 2011, after years of weather and extensive lightning damage, the stack was restored under the . . . — — Map (db m97781) HM |
| On Northumberland Highway (U.S. 360) just east of Liberty Road (County Route 726), on the right. |
| | Elijah W. Reed, a New England ship captain, established the town in 1874 after building a factory here to process menhaden, a small bony fish rich in oil. Reedville soon became the center of the industry and home port to the Atlantic menhaden fleet. . . . — — Map (db m22959) HM |
| Near Buzzards Point Road (Virginia Route 656) 0.6 miles east of Fairport Road (Virginia Route 646), on the right when traveling south. |
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(side 1)
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 . . . — — Map (db m76404) HM |
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