On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Trevilians Square, on the right when traveling east on Louisa Road.
In June 1864, shortly after the bloody battle at Cold Harbor, Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan and his cavalry moved westward to disrupt the Virginia Central Railroad and unite with Maj. Gen. David Hunter’s army, then operating in the Shenandoah . . . — — Map (db m271472) HM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Trevilians Square, on the right when traveling east on Louisa Road. Reported permanently removed.
Here, on June 12, 1864, Sheridan's cavalry, coming from Trevilians, attacked Wade Hampton, who had taken position across the road. A bloody engagement followed. Fitz Lee joined Hampton, and the Union cavalry was driven back. That night Sheridan . . . — — Map (db m271471) HM
On West Street 0.1 miles east of West Main Street (U.S. 33), on the right when traveling east.
"Love Makes Memory Eternal"
This monument is dedicated
with affection, reverence
and undying remembrance
to the memory of the men
who gave their lives at
The Battle of Trevilians
June 11-12 1864
And who lie buried here . . . — — Map (db m308279) WM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Trevilians Square, on the right when traveling east on Louisa Road.
— Fought here June 11, 12, 1864 —
Confederate Gens. Wade Hampton, Fitzhugh Lee
and Thomas L. Rosser, victors over
Federal Gens. P.H. Sheridan and G.A. Custer
5000 Confederates, 8000 Federal
Casualties Confederate 612, Federal 1,007 . . . — — Map (db m271470) HM
On Oakland Road (County Route 613), on the right when traveling north.
A 9,300-man Union cavalry force under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, camped a few miles east on June 10, 1864. The next morning, Gen. Wesley Merritt's brigade, followed by Col. Thomas C. Devin's . . . — — Map (db m4841) HM
On Courthouse Square 0.1 miles north of Woolfolk Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
1776 - 1976
In Commemoration
Of
The 200th Anniversary
Of
American Independence
From Great Britain
The Louisa County
Bicentennial Commission — — Map (db m308223) WM
On Ellisville Drive (County Route 669) at Oakland Road (County Route 613), on the right when traveling north on Ellisville Drive. Reported permanently removed.
After riding across Virginia for three days on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's 9,300 cavalrymen and horse artillerists crossed the North Anna River at Carpenter's Ford about two miles north and . . . — — Map (db m4843) HM
On Ellisville Drive (County Route 669) at Oakland Road (County Route 613), on the right when traveling north on Ellisville Drive.
After riding across Virginia for three days on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's 9,300 cavalrymen and horse artillerists crossed the North Anna River at Carpenter's Ford and bivouacked in the . . . — — Map (db m308313) HM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Danne Road (County Route 682), on the right when traveling west on Louisa Road.
By mid-morning on June 11, 1864, Gen. George A. Custer's attack on Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton's wagon train here had gone from success to near disaster as Southern cavalry surrounded Custer's force. A staff officer of Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert, . . . — — Map (db m193777) HM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Danne Road (County Route 682), on the right when traveling west on Louisa Road.
Nearby stood Trevilian Station, south of which Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton had parked his wagon train on the evening of June 10, 1864. At daylight the next day, Gen. Matthew C. Butler and Col. Gilbert J. Wright advanced north on the Fredericksburg . . . — — Map (db m193772) HM
On West Street (County Route 666) at Purcell Drive, on the left when traveling west on West Street.
Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton's victory over Gen. Philip H. Sheridan at Trevilian Station on June 11-12, 1864, prevented Sheridan from joining Gen. David Hunter and destroying the Virginia Central Railroad at Charlottesville. Gen. Jubal A. . . . — — Map (db m156010) HM
On Ellisville Drive (County Route 669), on the left when traveling north.
Having reached Louisa Court House on June 10, 1864, Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton's cavalry divisions camped around the Virginia Central Railroad and across Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's route to Gordonsville. About 3 A.M. on June 11, Confederate . . . — — Map (db m308316) HM
On Ellisville Drive (County Route 669), on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Having reached Louisa Court House on June 10, 1864, Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry divisions bivouacked around the Virginia Central Railroad and across Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s route to Gordonsville. About 3 a.m. on June 11, Gen. William C. . . . — — Map (db m114333) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 33) 0.1 miles west of Lyde Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Here the county seat was established in 1742. The British Cavalryman, Tarleton, stopped here on his raid to Charlottesville, June 3, 1781. Stoneman raided the place and destroyed the railroad, May 2, 1863. Near here Fitz Lee camped, June 10, 1864, . . . — — Map (db m24560) HM
Near Fredericksburg Avenue (Virginia Route 628) at School Street ( Route T-1014), on the left when traveling north.
Hugh Hammond Bennett, “the father of soil conservation,” joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Soils in 1903. While conducting a soil survey of Louisa County in 1905, he came to understand the link between soil erosion and soil . . . — — Map (db m54210) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 33) at Courthouse Square (State Road 208), on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
John Mercer Langston was born 5.5 miles N.W. of here on 14 Dec. 1829, son of plantation owner Ralph Quarles and his former slave Lucy Langston. A graduate of Oberlin College (1849), in 1855 Langston became township clerk of Brownheim, Ohio - the . . . — — Map (db m256950) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.2 miles north of West Green Sprongs Road, on the right when traveling north.
Early on the morning of June 4, 1781, John "Jack" Jouett Jr. galloped up the road behind you, veering left on West Green Springs Rd. Just four hours after leaving the tavern in Cuckoo on the eastern side of Louisa County, he passed by this point . . . — — Map (db m293326) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 33) at Elm Avenue, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Welcome to historic downtown Louisa, known as Louisa Court House during the Civil War, your starting point for a driving tour of the pivotal Battle of Trevilian Station.
In June 1864, the Virginia Central Railroad, which passed through Louisa, . . . — — Map (db m308345) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 33) at Elm Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street. Reported permanently removed.
You are standing in the historic town of Louisa Court House (now Louisa). During the Civil War, the Virginia Central Railroad passed through this county seat. The main street became the Gordonsville Road (Rte. 22/33) at the western end of town. . . . — — Map (db m193948) HM
On Fredericksburg Avenue (Virginia Route 628) 0.1 miles east of School Street (County Road T-1014), on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
Featured here is a reproduction of a rail road track section that would have been built in accordance to an 1837 Agreement between the Louisa Rail-Road Company and providers of: "Rails, Sills (crossties) and Keys (wedges)…" for the railroad. . . . — — Map (db m170114) HM
Near Fredericksburg Avenue (Route 628) 0.1 miles north of School Street (County Road T-1014), on the left when traveling east.
This reconstructed 18th century farmstead was originally located on land near Boswell's Tavern granted to Gilbert Gibson in 1728. The property was bought in 1790 by Robert Michie, whose brother founded the famous Michie Tavern. In the early . . . — — Map (db m170115) HM
On Oakland Road (County Route 613), on the right when traveling north.
Fifty yards east is the site of Netherland Tavern (ca. 1822), which was demolished in the 1950s. The tavern served travelers on the Fredericksburg Stage Road and the Louisa Court House Road to the south. It also served rail passengers after the . . . — — Map (db m4840) HM
On Oakland Road (County Route 613) 0.3 miles east of Louisa Road (U.S. 33), on the right when traveling north.
This tavern is where General Wade Hampton slept the night before the bloodiest cavalry battle was fought and won by the rebel's
This tavern was used as a hospital for the wounded.
The original tavern was built in the 1700's era — — Map (db m308352) HM
On West Street (County Route 666) at Purcell Drive, on the left when traveling west on West Street.
Here in Oakland Cemetery, beneath small, rectangular stone markers, rest as many as 60 Confederate dead from the Battle of Trevilian Station. Most of them were never identified.
Immediately inside the gate are the graves of the three Towles . . . — — Map (db m256955) HM
On South Spotswood Trail (U.S. 33) 1.4 miles north of Louisa Road ( Route 22), on the right when traveling west.
After breaking off the fighting of June 11, 1864, Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton’s cavalry division withdrew to a position near here. Gen. Matthew C. Butler’s South Carolinians spent the next morning preparing a stout defensive position along the . . . — — Map (db m256957) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 33) at Elm Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
At Roundabout Plantation, eight miles southwest, Patrick Henry lived from 1765 to 1768, when he sat for Louisa County in the House of Burgesses. This was the beginning of his political career. — — Map (db m4829) HM
On Danne Road 0.1 miles north of Louisa Road (U.S. 33), on the left when traveling north.
The rail on the right side is the 1858 rail laid by the Virginia Central Railroad. It remained in place through the war, until the 1870 replacement by the C&O Railroad.
The rail on the left is a section of the rail the C&O Railroad started . . . — — Map (db m308350) HM
On Jefferson Highway (U.S. 33) east of School Bus Road (County Route 767).
Louisa Training School, the county’s first high
school for African American students, was built
three miles northwest in 1926 with aid from the
Rosenwald Fund. In 1953, Archie Gibbs Richardson
High School replaced it here as part of an . . . — — Map (db m107854) HM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 33) at Danne Road (Route 682), on the right when traveling west on Louisa Road. Reported missing.
In June 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan led a Union cavalry raid against the Virginia Central Railroad here, which Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee defended during a two-day battle. On 11 June, the first day, Union Brig. Gen. . . . — — Map (db m193819) HM
Near Fredericksburg Avenue (Route 628) 0.1 miles east of School Street (County Road T-1014), on the right when traveling west.
This one-room schoolhouse was originally located four miles west of Louisa near Trevilian's Station. The 1868 Constitutional Convention during Reconstruction mandated education to be made available to all children in Virginia. The full historic . . . — — Map (db m170116) HM
