Confederate States Soldiers and Sailors

(Tampa)

In Honor and Memory

Of Confederate States

Soldiers and Sailors

1861 — 1865

Interred Here

Erected 1975 by

The Heights Garden Circle

John T. Lesley S.C.V. Camp

United Daughters of the Confedercy

Marker can be reached from East Harrison ...

Wright Earthworks

Ancient Architecture Now Lost

The two earthen walls before you are remnants of one of the wonders of the ancient world. They were part of the Newark Earthworks, the largest set of geometric enclosures ever built. Much like a modern cathedral ...

Gen. Hooker's Headquarters

Just northeast, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, kept his headquarters, Jan. - June 1863, amid a vast city of tents and camps. It was here he rehabilitated he Union army after its catastrophic ...

Clark Family Farm

In 1754, John and Ann Rogers Clark, with their sons Jonathan and George Rogers, moved from Albemarle County to a farm four miles west. There were born Ann, John, Richard, Edmund, Lucy, Elizabeth, William and Frances. During the Revolutionary War, ...

Maneuvering to the North Anna River

Unable to defeat Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederates during the Spotsylvania Courthouse battles 8-19 May 1864, Union commander Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's forces maneuvered east and south forcing Lee to abandon his entrenched position. The Confederates moved south along ...

Golansville Quaker Meetinghouse

Pioneers in asserting the right to religious freedom, the Caroline Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting nearby on 12 March 1739 together with their partner, Cedar Creek Friends Meeting of Hanover County. At a meeting on 9 May 1767, members ...

St. Nazianz Area Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to All St. Nazianz

Area Veterans

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They Fought So We All Stand Free

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Wagner Eberle Sukowaty Post 477

American Legion

[The American Legion emblem]

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (County Road C) and North 1st Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Lafayette and Cornwallis

The Marquis de Lafayette and his outnumbered colonial troops abandoned Richmond on 27 May 1781 to avoid Gen. Charles Cornwallis's approaching forces. Lafayette marched north from Richmond through Hanover County and likely crossed the nearby North Anna River by 31 ...

"Alligator" Mound

On this bluff lies one of the two great animal effigy mounds built by Ohio's prehistoric people. Shown here, Alligator Mound is a giant earthen sculpture of some four-footed animal with a long, curving tail. Archaeologists believe the animal is ...

Home of Samuel Henry Rumph

This house was built in 1904 as the residence of Samuel Henry Rumph (1851-1922), father of Georgia's commercial peach industry. A noted horticulturist, he originated the Elberta peach at his Willow Lake Nursery. three miles east, 1870- 1875. His invention, ...