Walker Basin

Point of Historical Interest

Originally called "The Park" due to its characteristics, the area, according to the present day historical experts, was named Walker's Basin, sometime in the 1860's after George Walker, its first settler. Early history books indicate, however, that ...

Cumberland Church

Union Closes In

Here at Cumberland Church, in the afternoon of April 7, 1865, part of the Army of Northern Virginia entrenched to protect the route west to Appomattox Station, where supplies awaited the men. The Confederate line, across the road ...

Peter L. Traver Building

Constructed by Peter L. Traver in 1856, this is the oldest stone building in Murphys. Its iron shutters and sand on the roof protected it from the fires of 1859, 1874, and 1893. It served as a general store, a ...

Fort Le Boeuf

This Monument Marks the Site of

This monument marks the site of

Fort Le Boeuf

Erected by the French in 1752.

George Washington

As a major representing the governor

of Virginia, came here in 1753, bearing

a letter to the commander of the

fort, warning the French to ...

Blanding Street

Originally named Walnut Street, Blanding Street was by 1869 renamed for Abram Blanding, a Massachusetts native who came to Columbia in 1797 to take charge of Columbia Male Academy. Blanding was admitted to the bar in 1802 and served two ...

Cumberland Church

Lee’s Retreat

Union troops arrived here after crossing the Appomattox River at High Bridge and found Lee’s army entrenched around the church. After a series of Union attacks, Lee was forced to delay his movement until nightfall when he began marching ...

Bush Hill

Josiah Watson, a wealthy merchant and postmaster of Alexandria, established his 272-acre plantation, “Bush Hill”, in 1791. Richard Marshall Scott purchased the plantation in 1791; his family stayed here for 200 years. Scott was an attorney, bank president and planter ...

Richmond’s African Burial Ground

Richmond Slave Trail

(left panel)

“Se wo were fin a wosankofa a yenkyi.”

“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”

-A proverb of the Akan people of West Africa

An elder once said that cemeteries are not for the ...

The Benjamin DuPré House

C.- 1804

This significant single house was built by Benjamin DuPré, a French tailor, sometime after 1803. The entire area was known as “Gadsden’s Green” after Christopher Gadsden who divided this land into six wharf lots and 197 back lots, ...

Gravesite of Bishop Peter Spencer (1779-1843)

And His Devoted Wife, Annes

Born a slave, Bishop Spencer was the father of Delaware’s independent Black church movement. In 1813, he founded the Union Church of Africans, presently known as the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. The mother AUMP church ...