Fredericksburg City Dock

Contesting the Crossing

Confederate troops under the command of Gen. William Barksdale were awake and alert hereon the morning of December 11,1862, waiting anxiously for the sun to rise. On the river, unseen in the inky blackness but clearly audible in ...

Fredericksburg City Dock

Union Artillery on Stafford Heights

Directly ahead of you, across the river, stood George Washington’s boyhood home, Ferry Farm. According to legend, the future president cut down his father’s cherry tree there and threw a coin across the river. The property ...

Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute

Due to the efforts of local blacks, Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute (FNII) opened in October 1903 at the Shiloh New Site Baptist Church with about 20 students. In 1906 the board of trustees purchased land and a large farmhouse ...

African Baptist Church of Fredericksburg

The Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) resides on the site once occupied by the African Baptist Church. Constructed as the Fredericksburg Baptist Church, the building was sold to its African-American members in 1857, after the white congregation had moved to ...

Frederick Lutheran Church

In 1666, the same year that the Danish West India Company took possession of St. Thomas, this congregation was founded by Pastor K.J. Slagelse as an outpost of the Evangelical (Lutheran) State Church of Denmark. Worshipping at first in private ...

John Philip Frederick Craane

a.k.a. Boechi

This building is dedicated to John P.F. Craane, affectionately known as "Boechi." Born November 24,1913. Boechi spent most of his life working on or around boats. His love for boats was greatly influenced by his father, who was a ...

Fort Frederick Officers’ Quarters

A Ghost in the Ground.

Before you is the foundation of “The Governor’s House,” the building that served as the officers’ quarters, ceremonial hall and storeroom for Fort Frederick. What did that building look like? We know the size and general ...

Fort Frederick

A Witness to War

Built by the Maryland colony in 1756 during the French and Indian War, Fort Frederick’s stone walls surrounded three large buildings. The colonists abandoned the frontier fort in 1759, when the threat of Indian raids subsided. During ...

19 State Street - Frederick Wolfe House

circa 1796

This two-and-a-half story Charleston Single

House is thought to be built by

Frederick Wolfe after the fire of 1796, which

destroyed much of the State Street ares between

Broad and Queen Streets. The house was

moved back on its orginal lot at 21 ...

Fort Frederick

Maryland State Park

Colonial stone fort built 1756 for Province of Maryland by Gov. Horatio Sharpe to protect frontier against French and Indians after Braddock’s defeat. Detention camp for British prisoners 1776–83. Occupied 1861–2 by Union troops. George Washington was here ...