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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Cumberland County, Virginia
Adjacent to Cumberland County, Virginia
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| On Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) 0.1 miles south of Tavern Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Early in June 1781, Maj. Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben saved some military stores at Point of Fork from British troops and then retreated south to Staunton River before being called to join Lafayette's forces. On 16 June Steuben crossed to the . . . — — Map (db m18357) HM |
| On Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) at Ampthill Road, on the left when traveling north on Cartersville Road. |
| | Two miles north, near the mouth of Willis River, Steuben camped, June 5-6, 1781, when driven from Point of Fork by Simcoe. — — Map (db m21123) HM |
| On Columbia Road at Boston Hill Road, on the right when traveling west on Columbia Road. |
| | One mile north; home of Carter Henry Harrison, land patented, 1723. Harrison, as a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, wrote the instructions for independence (adopted April 22) presented by the county delegates to the Virginia convention . . . — — Map (db m21117) HM |
| Near Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) at Columbia Road (Virginia Route 690), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Parents in the Cartersville area of Cumberland County met in 1909 to discuss the need for a centralized high school to replace the one-room schools serving white children in the area at that time. The county Superintendent of Schools led the . . . — — Map (db m31609) HM |
| On Columbia Road at Flanagan Mill Road, on the left when traveling east on Columbia Road. |
| | Here at Flannagan's (Trice's) Mill, Robert E. Lee spent the night of April 13-14, 1865, on his journey from Appomattox to Richmond. — — Map (db m21101) HM |
| Near Cartersville Road (Virginia Route 45) 0.1 miles north of Ampthill Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Julius Rosenwald, a former president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., continued the efforts made by numerous philanthropists to bring education to African Americans in the South. During the early 1900s, funding for schools was scarce; the South had half . . . — — Map (db m21159) HM |
| On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the right when traveling east on Anderson Highway. |
| | Steuben, both on his retreat from Simcoe and on his return north to join Lafayette, passed near here, June, 1781. — — Map (db m21120) HM |
| On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) 0.6 miles west of Mosby road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | (Obverse) Cumberland County
Area 293 square miles
Formed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776. . . . — — Map (db m21127) HM |
| On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Foster Road, on the right when traveling west on Anderson Highway. |
| | In 1749 the Virginia House of Burgesses divided Goochland County to establish Cumberland County. William A. Howard, an associate of Thomas Jefferson's master builder, Dabney Cosby, built the present Cumberland County courthouse (1818-1821). The . . . — — Map (db m21121) HM |
| On Anderson Highway (U.S. 60) at Foster Road, on the right when traveling west on Anderson Highway. |
| | Near this place from the porch of Effingham Tavern on 22 April 1776, Carter Henry Harrison, a member of the Cumberland Committee for Safety, read the Resolutions of Cumberland County to citizens gathered there. These resolutions called for the . . . — — Map (db m67315) HM |
| On Foster Road at Anderson Highway (U.S. 60), on the left when traveling north on Foster Road. |
| | Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, was born in Cumberland County, VA, to William Anderson and Sally Wyatt (Guy) Davis on September 25, 1882. He attended the public schools of Richmond, VA, and received his B.A. from . . . — — Map (db m21150) HM |
| On North Main Street (State Highway 45) at River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | Near here is the site of Bizarre, owned in 1742 by Richard Randolph of Curles. In 1781, his grandson, John Randolph of Roanoke, took refuge at Bizarre with his mother on account of Arnold's invasion. John Randolph lived here until 1810, when he . . . — — Map (db m30204) HM |
| On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Union troops arrived here after crossing the Appomattox River at High Bridge and found Lee’s army entrenched around the church. After a series of Union attacks, Lee was forced to delay his movement until nightfall when he began marching towards . . . — — Map (db m11837) HM |
| On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the left when traveling north. |
| | Here at Cumberland Church, in the afternoon of April 7, 1865, part of the Army of Northern Virginia entrenched to protect the route west to Appomattox Station, where supplies awaited the men. The Confederate line, across the road behind you, . . . — — Map (db m11839) HM |
| On North Main Street (State Highway 45) at River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | (South Side):Cumberland County Area 293 square milesFormed in 1748 from Goochland, and named for the Duke of Cumberland, second son of King George II. The earliest call for independence came from this county, April 22, 1776. (North . . . — — Map (db m30212) HM |
| On Cumberland Road (Virginia Route 45), on the right when traveling south. |
| | After successfully crossing the Appomattox River at nearby High Bridge, Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys’ II Corps attacked Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. William Mahone that were entrenched on the high ground around Cumberland Presbyterian Church. . . . — — Map (db m11861) HM |
| On River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling west. |
| | From here you can see the 1914 steel railroad bridge that spans the Appomattox River above the brick piers of the antebellum High Bridge, which carried the South Side Railroad. The old wooden bridge and the wagon bridge, just to the east of it, were . . . — — Map (db m29934) HM |
| Near River Road (County Route 600), on the right when traveling east. Reported missing. |
| | The "High" Bridge "There have been higher bridges not so long and longer bridges not so high, but taking the height and length together, this is, perhaps, the largest bridge in the world." C.O. Sanford, South Side Railroad's chief engineer, 1852 . . . — — Map (db m29915) HM |
| On Cumberland Road (State Highway 45), on the right when traveling north. |
| | James F. Lipscomb was born a free black on 4 December 1830 in Cumberland County. He worked first as a farm laborer, then as a carriage driver in Richmond. In 1867 he returned to Cumberland County, where he accumulated more than 500 acres of land. . . . — — Map (db m30244) HM |
| On Cumberland Road (State Highway 45), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Just east of here is Needham, location of Virginia's first proprietary law school and home of founder Judge Creed Taylor (1766 - 1836), politician, jurist, and legal educator. Taylor's law school at Needham, which opened in 1821 and closed by 1840, . . . — — Map (db m30239) HM |
| Near River Road (County Route 600) at Jamestown Road (County Route 657), on the left when traveling south. |
| | “There have been higher bridges not so long and longer bridges not so high, but taking the height and length together, this is, perhaps, the largest bridge in the world.”
-C.O. Sanford, South Side Railroad’s chief engineer,1852
In . . . — — Map (db m83635) HM |
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