Quartermaster’s Store

Preexisting Buildings

Quartermaster’s Store

Report from the Fort

16 October 1844 • Major Brevet C. W. Thomas

The Quartermaster’s Store at 55 feet in length by 20 in width, is nearly new and sufficient for all wants of the post.

Martin Robinson Delany

Erected in tribute to

Martin Robinson Delany

Born free May 6, 1812

Lawrence and North Streets

Charles Town, VA (W VA)

Son of Samuel Delay (slave)

and Patti Peace Delany (free)

grandson of African prince

Prince Hall Mason

physician, scientist, inventor,

African explorer, newspaper publisher

& editor, author, trial justice;

Major in ...

Stuart’s Mortal Wound

Late in the afternoon of 11 May 1864, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the famous Confederate cavalry commander, was mortally wounded just east of here on Old Telegraph Road while rallying the left of his line during the Battle of Yellow ...

Stuart’s Mortal Wound

One half mile to the to the east, on the old Telegraph Road, is a monument marking the field where General J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded on May 11, 1864. The monument was erected by veterans of Stuart’s Cavalry in ...

Martin R. Delany

Free African-American, born 1812 in Charles Town. Died 1885. Ability to read forced family to move to PA in 1822. Studied medicine and attended Harvard in 1850. Published Mystery, first black newspaper west of Allegh. 1843-47, & co-edited North Star ...

Martha M. Rich Building

This building is dedicated to Martha M. Rich for her long and faithful service to Edgefield County.

County Council Members

C. Monroe Kneece - Chairman

Samuel B. Speight - Vice Chairman

Betty Ann Butler

Norman Dorn

Hazel M. Kitchens

Wayne Adams - County Administrator

Edgefield Constriction, Inc. - ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park

This park honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. was inspired by Dr. King’s last speech entitled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” He delivered the speech in Memphis, Tennessee the night before he was assassinated. He was there in support of ...

Battle Between Confederate Gunboats and Union Field Artillery

(December 12, 1864)

In December, 1864, was fought on the Savannah River near here one of the few battles in which Confederate gunboats and Union field artillery were engaged against each other.

Colerain Plantation, as these lands were then known, had been ...

Artillery Shed

1837

Report from the Fort

30 September 1836 • Richard Delafield, Captain of Engineers

[The] erection of a gun shed, for such artillery and carriages as shall not be mounted in battery … may not … be perfected this fall.

Lee’s Headquarters

Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

May 10, 11, 12, 1864

1903      Replaced      1964

Marker is at the intersection of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 208) and Brock Road, on the left when traveling south on Courthouse Road.

Courtesy ...