Jefferson Davis Camp

On this site

after the evacuation of Richmond

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

with his personal staff and cabinet

camped April 18, 1865.

Dismounting he hitched his horse

to a tree which stood on this spot.

Marker is on Earl Street just north of ...

Winonah Camp / Mozella Price Home

Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail

Mozella Jordan Price was instrumental in improving the education and quality of life for African Americans in Appomattox County. Mrs. Price was educated in Farmville schools, attended Boydton Institute, Virginia State College, and earned a ...

Plantation Barnyard

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

Like most Chesapeake plantations, Pemberton used a wide range of domestic animals for food, clothing, transportation, and commercial products. Most animals served multiple purposes. Cattle provided milk, meat, hides to tan, and cattle horns for products such ...

The "Peculiar Institution" at Pemberton Plantation

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

Like most 18th-century plantations in the Chesapeake region, Pemberton Hall Plantation depended on slave labor. Between 1700 and 1740, some 54,000 slaves were brought to the Chesapeake region. When Isaac Handy died in 1762, records show that ...

Carver-Price School

Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail

In 1929-30 the Appomattox training school was built on this site with funds raised by Mozella Price, who served as Supervisor of Appomattox Counter Negro Schools from 1919 to 1963. It was a cinder block ...

An Apple a Day

Pemberton Hall Historic Trail

The apple trees you see here are a reminder that fruit orchards were an essential part of Chesapeake Bay plantation life in the 18th century. Apples, peaches, and pears were on the daily menu for plantation residents. ...

Nature's Pasture

Pemberton Park Historic Trail

If you had stood here 250 years ago, you would likely have seen cattle grazing in the tidal marshlands. The area between the mainland and Bell Island was known as "Handy's Meadow." Following Colonel Handy's death in ...

Thomas F. Price

Roman Catholic priest, pioneer Home Missionary of N.C. Co-founder of “Maryknoll Fathers,” a foreign mission society. Birthplace (1860) one block east.

Marker is on North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) just south of Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

A Drop to Drink

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

In the colonial period, the safety of drinking water was uncertain, so people drank cider, wine, and distilled spirits instead. Each plantation made its own beverages. A cider press extracted juice from fruit. The cider could be ...

The Signing Post

You are standing in Bastion Square. The Hudson’s Bay Company, whose legacy continues at the store on Government Street, established Fort Victoria here in 1843.

Men and women from many places worked and lived in Fort Victoria, including French Canadian, Hawaiians, ...