On Louisa Road (Virginia Route 22) 0.1 miles west of Whitlock Road (Virginia Route 616), on the left when traveling west.
Albemarle County. Albemarle County was formed in 1744 from Goochland County and named for William Anne Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, titular governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. A portion of Louisa County was later added to . . . — — Map (db m22780) HM
On Gordon Avenue (Virginia Route 231) south of Echo Back Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Orange County. Area 359 Square Miles. Formed in 1734 from Spotsylvania, and named for the Prince of Orange, who in that year married Princess Anne, daughter of King George II. President James Madison lived in this county and . . . — — Map (db m17747) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15/33), on the right when traveling north.
Orange County. Formed from Spotsylvania County in 1734, Orange County, a pastoral Piedmont county, was probably named in honor of William IV, the Dutch prince of Orange, who married Anne, the Princess Royal, daughter of George II of England, . . . — — Map (db m108411) HM
On James Madison Highway (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling south.
Near here was the church of James Waddel, the blind Presbyterian preacher. Waddel, who had been a minister in the Northern Neck and elsewhere, came here about 1785 and died here in 1805. William Wirt, stopping in 1803 to hear a sermon, was impressed . . . — — Map (db m4766) HM
On Gordonsville Road (Virginia Route 231) at Klockner Road, on the right when traveling north on Gordonsville Road.
Thomas Sumter was born on 14 Aug. 1734 in this region. Sumter, a member of the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, moved to South Carolina in 1765. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army (1776–1778); in June . . . — — Map (db m17501) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 15/33) at East Gordon Avenue (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
Built by Nathaniel Gordon, 1787. Visited by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Philip and James Barbour, Clark, Rives, Randolph, Wirt, Waddell, and other celebrities of Revolutionary, post-Revolutionary, and Confederate War periods. Lafayette . . . — — Map (db m4794) HM
On South Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
January 1, 1840 celebrated the arrival of the Louisa Railroad to Gordonsville. The introduction of rail service contributed to the growth and vitality of the town as a prime rail junction. The two railroads that formed the junction were the . . . — — Map (db m8162) HM
Near Cobb Street just east of South Main Street, on the right when traveling west.
In memory of the soldiers, both Confederate and Union, who died here at the Exchange Hotel used during the Civil War as the General Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA, 1861 - 1865 — — Map (db m25545) HM WM
On Spotswood Trail (U.S. 33) 0.5 miles west of Lovers Lane (Virginia Route 646), on the left when traveling west.
This rural historic district encompasses 50 square miles of the Piedmont. Native Americans lived here for more than 12,000 years before settlers of European descent, drawn to the fertile soil, arrived early in the 1700s. Several notable houses, . . . — — Map (db m117220) HM
On Spotswood Trail (U.S. 33) at Old Montebello Drive, on the right when traveling east on Spotswood Trail.
Here was born Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, November 24, 1784. Taylor, commanding an American Army, won the notable Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico, 1847. — — Map (db m30181) HM
Near Spotswood Trail (U.S. 33), on the right when traveling west.
Has erected this tablet as a tribute of respect to some seven hundred Confederate soldiers mainly from North Carolina and Georgia who laid down their lives for the cause they loved and lost their names are perished. May their memory be imperishable! — — Map (db m4791) HM WM
On Cobb Street just east of South Main Street, on the right when traveling west.
Once a thriving Tavern during the 1840's and then a Railroad Grand Hotel during the 1860's, this building was later transformed to become the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital during the Civil War. 70,000 Confederate and Union soldiers were treated . . . — — Map (db m170667) HM
