On Lemmons Bottom Road north of John S. Bosby Highway (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
Leapfrogging westward in a delaying action against advancing Union cavalry June 21, 1863, the rear guard of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, commanded by Gen. Wade Hampton, took up a strong position on the steep ridge just behind you. From there two . . . — — Map (db m1549) HM
On Lemmon Bottom Road west of John S. Mosby Highway (Virginia Route 50).
On June 21, 1863, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart’s troopers under Gen Wade Hampton, retreating from Rector’s Crossroads (Atoka), crossed this bridge and took a strong position of the steep ridge behind you. From there, Confederate artillery . . . — — Map (db m225884) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) west of Dunvegan Drive, on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia escaped to Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly urged Union Gen. George B. McClellan to pursue and attack. Following a plan that . . . — — Map (db m290438) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) west of Dunvegan Drive, on the right when traveling east.
From this Vineyard Hill location on Monday, November 3, 1862, you would have been standing behind a line of 900 Confederate troopers and 12 cannons commanded by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart that stretched across the Ashby's Gap Turnpike, modern Rt. 50. The . . . — — Map (db m290439) HM
On John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) at Hill Road / Trappe Road (County Route 619), on the right when traveling east on John Mosby Highway.
After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m3754) HM
On Trappe Road (County Route 619), on the right when traveling south.
After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m41655) HM
Near Lemmon Bottom Road north of John S. Moseby Highway (Virginia Route 50).
1) 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber
2) Trooper’s forage bags – included coffee, sugar, hardtack, and mess gear
3) Blanket roll – change of clothes, wrapped around a wool blanket and covered with a rubber blanket
4) Canteen
5) 1859 . . . — — Map (db m224793) HM
Near Lemmon Bottom Road north of John S. Mosby Highway (Virginia Route 50).
The Goose Creek Bridge was built in 1802 and was used daily by pedestrians, carriages, horses, and vehicles until 1957. The bridge is a four-arched stone bridge, 212 ft. long, and is the oldest remaining turnpike bridge in Virginia, dating to . . . — — Map (db m238417) HM
On John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) at Hill Road / Trappe Road (County Route 619), on the right when traveling east on John Mosby Highway.
After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m3753) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) 0.1 miles east of Delaplane Grade Raod (Virginia Route 712), on the right when traveling east.
Mary E. Conover Mellon lived nearby with her second husband, the philanthropist Paul Mellon. Interested in the humanities and deeply influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, she was instrumental in establishing the Bollingen Series of . . . — — Map (db m269861) HM
On Rokeby Road (Virginia Route 623) at John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling south on Rokeby Road.
Paul Mellon, one of the foremost American philanthropists of the 20th century, lived nearby. An heir to the vast banking and industrial fortune left by his father, Andrew W. Mellon, he supported universities, civic improvement projects, conservation . . . — — Map (db m269862) HM
Near Lemmon Bottom Road (County Route 832) north of Johns S. Mosby Memorial Highway ( Route 50).
In 2017, The Civil War Trust and the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Transportation transferred properties to NOVA Parks consisting of a 20-acre battlefield park to mark the Battle of Upperville fought on this site and nearby properties on . . . — — Map (db m235948) HM
On Rokeby Road (Virginia Route 623) at U.S. 50, on the right when traveling south on Rokeby Road.
Paul Mellon established Rokeby Stables near here on property purchased in 1931 by his father, Andrew W. Mellon, financier and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Paul Mellon bred and raised champion racehorses, including American Way, Grand National . . . — — Map (db m269863) HM
On John S. Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) west of Dunvegan Drive, on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
This site, known during the war as Vineyard Hill, commands a clear view of the road, stone walls, and fields in front of you where 10,000 cavalry and infantry clashed in the Battle of Upperville on June 21, 1863. It was the fifth day of attack . . . — — Map (db m1550) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) west of Dunvegan Drive, on the right when traveling east.
This site, known as Vineyard Hill, commands a clear view of the road, stone walls, and fields in front of you were 10,000 cavalry and infantry clashed in the Battle of Upperville on June 21, 1863, the fifth day of havoc along modern Rt. 50. . . . — — Map (db m314995) HM
On John S Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) at Willisville Road, on the right when traveling east on John S Mosby Highway.
Willisville, 1.5 miles north, developed in the late 1860s around a small group of dwellings where free and enslaved African Americans had lived before the Civil War. In 1868, residents erected a building to serve as a school and church with . . . — — Map (db m314997) HM
