On James River Drive (Virginia Route 10) at Lebanon Road (Virginia Route 611), on the right when traveling west on James River Drive.
This place, five miles northeast, has been owned by the Harrison family for two centuries. John Martin patented the land in 1617; Nathaniel Harrison bought it in 1720. The present house was built about 1770. The British General Phillips landed at . . . — — Map (db m74771) HM
On James River Drive (Virginia Route 10) 0.2 miles east of Wards Creek Road (County Route 614), on the right when traveling west.
Four miles north on James River. There, on January 3, 1781, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon. On January 10, Arnold, returning, sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers Clark. Fort Powhatan stood there . . . — — Map (db m11654) HM
On South Crater Road (U.S. 301) 0.5 miles south of Johns Road, on the right when traveling south.
(Obverse)
Prince George County
Area 294 Square Miles
Formed in 1702 from Charles City, and named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne. The battles of the crater, 1864, and Fort Steadman, 1865, took place in this . . . — — Map (db m18920) HM
On South Crater Road (U.S. 301) at Woodys Road, on the right when traveling south on South Crater Road.
Three miles north. There, the Union cavalryman, Kautz, in Wilson's raid, destroyed the station, June 22, 1864. Returning from Burkeville, Kautz reached there again June 29, and was joined by Wilson. Attacked by Hampton, Wilson and Kautz hastily . . . — — Map (db m18864) HM
On Oaklawn Blvd (Virginia Route 36), on the right when traveling east.
City Point is five miles northeast. There Governor Sir Thomas Dale made a settlement in 1613. In April, 1781, the British General Phillips landed there. Grant had his base of operations there in the siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865. Lincoln was there . . . — — Map (db m14554) HM
Near A Avenue at 22nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
In World War II, over 450 members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) were assigned to a secret experiment. It called for the creation of coastal gun battery, comprised of both men and women, with the mission to protect the Military . . . — — Map (db m101960) HM
Near A Avenue near 22nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
This warrior figure is a tribute
to all Army women who have served
in defense of our nation.
She represents their sacrifices,
dedication and loyalty.
Dedicated on Veteran's Day 2013.
Funded with contributions made to the
Friends . . . — — Map (db m101963) WM
On Oaklawn Boulevard (Virginia Route 36) at Lee Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Oaklawn Boulevard.
The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) Training Center was established at nearby Camp Lee in 1948, when the corps gained Regular Army status. The first staff members transformed overgrown fields and dilapidated buildings into usable facilities. Run entirely . . . — — Map (db m98806) HM
On James River Drive (Virginia Route 10) at Flowerdew Hundred Road (County Route 639), on the right when traveling west on James River Drive.
Four miles north of here, Governor Sir George Yeardley established Flowerdew Hundred settlement by 1619. In 1621 a windmill was built there, the first one recorded in English North America. In response to English expansion in Powhatan lands, such an . . . — — Map (db m11659) HM
On James River Drive (Virginia Route 10) at Flowerdew Hundred Road (County Route 639), on the right when traveling west on James River Drive.
The creek nearby was named for Nathaniel Powell, acting Governor in 1619. Weyanoke Indian town was here. Nearby is the site of an old mill, known in the Revolution as Bland's, and later, Cocke's Mill. The British General Phillips passed here, May . . . — — Map (db m11657) HM
On James River Drive (Virginia Route 10) at Merchants Hope Road (Virginia Route 641), on the right when traveling east on James River Drive.
This well-known colonial church's architectural form and detail is typical of early and mid-18th-century Virginia churches. Located half a mile south, the building has Flemish-bond brickwork, modillion cornice, and a gracefully splayed gable roof. . . . — — Map (db m30241) HM
On Jordan Point Road (Virginia Route 156) at Jordan Point Parkway, on the right on Jordan Point Road.
Richard Bland (1710-1776), statesman and son of Richard and Elizabeth Randolph Bland of Jordan's Point, represented Prince George County in the House of Burgesses from 1742 to 1776. Between the 1750s and 1774, Bland played a leading role through . . . — — Map (db m18748) HM
On Jordan Point Road (Virginia Route 156) at Jordan Point Parkway, on the right when traveling north on Jordan Point Road. Reported missing.
Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New World's . . . — — Map (db m18749) HM
On Community Lane south of County Drive (U.S. 460), on the left when traveling west.
Beginning in the late 1880's, this region of Prince George County along the Norfolk & Western Railway became the center of the first largest settlement of Czech and Slovak immigrants in Virginia. Originally known as Wells Station, then . . . — — Map (db m91748) HM
On Siege Road 0.2 miles north of Oaklawn Boulevard (Virginia Route 36), on the left when traveling north.
On May 4, 1864, the Federal Army crossed the Rapidan River twenty miles west of Fredericksburg. The next day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's forces struck the Union army in the Wilderness, opening a month-long campaign of nearly nonstop . . . — — Map (db m155055) HM
Near Siege Road 0.2 miles north of Oaklawn Boulevard (Virginia Route 36), on the left when traveling north.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant wanted to capture Richmond—capital of the Confederacy. Grant knew that the key to Richmond was Petersburg which was lightly defended by Confederate forces. Failing to take Richmond by approaching from the north, . . . — — Map (db m155051) HM
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m75529) HM
On Ruffin Road at Old Stage Road, on the right when traveling north on Ruffin Road.
Bailey's Creek is named for Temperance Bailey (ca. 1617-ca. 1652), the daughter of Cicely Bailey and her first husband, whose name is unknown. When he died before Sept. 1620, Temperance inherited 200 acres of land near here at the age of three. Her . . . — — Map (db m17731) HM
On Courthouse Road at Administration Drive, on the left when traveling north on Courthouse Road.
Lord Cornwallis, going toward the James in pursuit of Lafayette, passed here, May 24, 1781. A part of Grant's army passed here on the way to Petersburg, June, 1864. The place was occupied by Union troops in 1864-65. — — Map (db m17732) HM
On Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 106) 0.1 miles west of Administration Drive, on the right when traveling west.
To those who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the services of their country in World Wars I and II from Prince George County, Virginia
World War I
White
Timothy B. Gogle • Roy Ellis • Harvey F. D. Tatum
Colored
James Wooden . . . — — Map (db m149577) WM
On Ruffin Road at Old Stage Road, on the right when traveling north on Ruffin Road.
Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, . . . — — Map (db m17733) HM
On Courthouse Road (Route 106) 0.1 miles west of Administration Drive, on the right when traveling west.
In memory of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice in military service to their country from Prince George County
Korea
Andrew G. Book • Larry Kennedy • Thomas W. King • John D. Meikle • Willie L. Moore • William E. O'Berry • Robert . . . — — Map (db m149579) WM
On Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 106), on the right when traveling west.
After crossing the James River, Gen. Gouverneur Warren’s Fifth Corps and Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Ninth Corps were ordered to move toward Petersburg. One of two primary routes of advance, Prince George Court House Road (Road 106) was used by more . . . — — Map (db m3897) HM
On Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 106), on the right when traveling west.
In June 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant began to confine Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia within the Richmond and Petersburg defenses. The South Side R.R., connecting Petersburg and Lynchburg, and the Richmond and Danville R.R. supplied Lee’s . . . — — Map (db m14771) HM
On Ruffin Road (Virginia Route 106) at Old Stage Road, on the right when traveling east on Ruffin Road.
As the summer of 1864 ended with Union Gen. U.S. Grant’s army still laying siege to Petersburg, Southern sources learned of a large herd of cattle being held at nearby Coggin’s Point on the James River. The cattle were grazing at . . . — — Map (db m14773) HM
On Old Stage Road at Heritage Road, on the right when traveling east on Old Stage Road.
Just to the north of the road here, at old Sycamore Church, Wade Hampton, coming from the south, attacked the Union cavalry guarding Grant's beef cattle, September 16, 1864. The Unionists were overpowered; Hampton, rounding up 2,500 beeves, . . . — — Map (db m17734) HM
Near Courts Drive just north of Laurel Spring Road, on the right when traveling north.
A grateful
Prince George
remembers it's
World War II Veterans
This tree planted
Nov. 11, 1995
by WW II Commemorative Committee
A remembrance by
Parkers Grocery — — Map (db m149570) WM
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