Historical Markers and War Memorials in New Kent, Virginia
New Kent is the county seat for New Kent County
New Kent is in New Kent County
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Near New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) at Court House Road.
The core of the main house was built on a half-acre lot about 1810. Nearly doubled in size about 1837, the house underwent further alterations between the 1870s and 1901, by which time it was re-oriented to face the road rather than the courthouse . . . — — Map (db m29321) HM
On New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) west of Virginia Route 648, on the right when traveling east.
Dr. Calvin C. Green, civil rights activist, led the movement for school integration in New Kent County. An educator, pastor, Korean War veteran, and later a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Green chartered the New Kent branch of the . . . — — Map (db m167839) HM
On New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) at Mystic Oak Trail, on the right when traveling west on New Kent Highway.
The early home of the Adams family, Cedar Hill was established by Ebenezer Adams after he immigrated to Virginia; it was originally named Winslows. The property had an important landing on Holts Creek which joins the Pamunkey River between . . . — — Map (db m167841) HM
On New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) 0.1 miles west of Courthouse Circle.
To the revered memory
of
The Confederate
Soldiers and Sailors
from New Kent County
1861 - 1865
"Lest we forget
Military units organized in New Kent.
Pamunkey Rifles
Co. E. 53, Virginia Regiment.
Barhamsville . . . — — Map (db m167833) WM
On New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 155) at Poindexter Road (Virginia Route 604), on the right when traveling south on New Kent Highway.
Criss Cross originally was named Christ's Cross due to its floor plan in the form of a Christian cross. George Poindexter immigrated to Virginia in 1654 and may have begun to build Criss Cross as early as 1685, but completed it by 1690. The . . . — — Map (db m167842) HM
On Cumberland Road (County Route 637) 1.5 miles north of New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249), on the right when traveling north.
Richard Littlepage III established Cumberland
Town on the south side of the Pamunkey River
in 1748. A busy shipping center, the town offered
a tobacco inspection station, warehouses, wharves,
and a ferry. The Virginia House of Burgesses
briefly . . . — — Map (db m107377) HM
On Cumberland Road (County Route 637) 1.5 miles north of New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249), on the right when traveling north.
Gilbert Chase, a New England ship captain, recovered a bronze French cannon in the Pamunkey River off Cumberland Town in 1816. Two members of his crew descended in a diving bell patented in 1806, which Chase had acquired the rights to use. The . . . — — Map (db m107379) HM
On North Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 155) at Poindexter Road (County Route 604), on the left when traveling north on North Courthouse Road.
George Poindexter (Poingdestre), a member of
prominent family on the Isle of Jersey in the
English Channel, arrived in Virginia by the 1650s
and settled at Middle Plantation, now Williamsburg.
He acquired land in at least three . . . — — Map (db m107387) HM
On Interstate 64, 2 miles east of exit 211, on the right when traveling east.
Virginia’s first State Highway Landscape Engineer - Mr. Neale served in theat position from 1930 to 1957 and was recognized nationally as a pioneer in roadside and rest area development. This facility is dedicated in his honor by a grateful . . . — — Map (db m79259) HM
James Lafayette was born in slavery about 1748 near here. His master William Armistead was commissary of military supplies when in the summer of 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette recruited James as a spy. Posing as a double agent, forager, and servant . . . — — Map (db m17739) HM
John Parke Custis
Born at White House, New Kent County in 1755. Died at Eltham, New Kent County, November 1781, where his body remains.
This marker placed by the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia 1960
While acting as aide to . . . — — Map (db m17746) HM
On North Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 155) at Poindexter Road (Virginia Route 604), on the right when traveling south on North Courthouse Road.
Educator, Baptist minister, publisher, American missionary and founder of Baptist churches across the United States. Dunjee was a New Kent County born slave owned by the Terrill family of Criss Cross Plantation. After discovering he was going to be . . . — — Map (db m167843) HM
About two miles northeast stood Chestnut Grove, the plantation home of John and Frances Jones Dandridge, where Martha Dandridge, the eldest of eight children, was born on 2 June 1731. She lived there until 15 May 1750, when she married Daniel Parke . . . — — Map (db m17740) HM
On Cumberland Road (County Route 637) 1.5 miles north of New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249), on the right when traveling north.
In May 1862, during the Peninsula Campaign, the Union Army of the Potomac under Major General George B. McClellan advanced up the Pamunkey River toward Richmond, while Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s army moved to defend the city. . . . — — Map (db m107383) HM
Near New Kent Highway at Courthouse Circle. Reported permanently removed.
Lord Cornwallis's army was here, moving eastward, June 22, 1781; Lafayette, in pursuit, June 25; Washington, Rochambeau and Chastellux, on their way to Yorktown, September 14, 1781. A part of Joseph E. Johnston's army, retiring to Richmond, passed . . . — — Map (db m17738) HM
On New Kent Highway (Route 249) 0.1 miles west of Courthouse Circle, on the left when traveling west.
New Kent County, established in 1654, built a brick courthouse here by 1695. Fires in 1753 and 1775 destroyed the building and its successor. A later courthouse, damaged during the Civil War, was replaced in 1909. In 1736 county court justice George . . . — — Map (db m167832) HM
On Virginia Route 648 just east of New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 648), on the right when traveling east.
New Kent School
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
In 1968, Green V. The County School Board challenged the . . . — — Map (db m167836) HM
On New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) 0.1 miles east of Courthouse Circle, on the right when traveling east.
Samuel W. Crump, a native of New Kent County and a veteran of World War II, was among the first African Americans elected to public office in Virginia under the state's Constitution of 1902, which disenfranchised many black voters. Elected to the . . . — — Map (db m167831) HM
Near New Kent Highway (Virginia Route 249) at Court House Road, on the right when traveling east.
Edmund Hockaday built the earliest part of this house about 1810. The house was nearly doubled in size in 1830s, with further additions by 1901 and finally in the 1950s.
The house did not remain in one family. It was sold about 1837, again . . . — — Map (db m29320) HM
