City Point, Virginia

8000 — B.C. Indian occupancy.

1613 Sir Thomas Dale establishes area as “Bermuda Cittie.”

1619 — Name changes to Charles City Point.

1621 — Rev. Patrick Copeland plans to build free public school, financed by the East India Company.

1622 — The Indian Massacre ...

St. John’s Episcopal Church

During the Civil War this church served as a signal station for both the Confederacy and the Union. On May 5, 1864 Col. Samuel A. Duncan’s brigade of United States Colored Troops (4th, 5th, and 6th U.S.C.T.) occupied City Point ...

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot

The L&N’s Debut - 1859

Traveling by train was exciting. Steam power locomotives meant a new age for passengers and freight. After nine years of construction, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad made its first run through Bowling Green in 1859. ...

Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski

1748-1779

Native of Poland

General of the Continental Army

Despairing of liberty in his native land he volunteered his services to the American Patriots.

Gave his life at the siege of Savannah.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of ...

American Legion Post 366 War Memorial

1914 — 1918

Dedicated to those of Bennie Kasierski Post No. 366 who offered their lives in humanity's defense in the war of the nations and in memory of those of the nation who gave their last full measure of devotion.

In ...

The Bull Ring At City Point

A Dreaded Provost Prison

“It was a pen of filth and vermin.” – William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent

The Bull Ring was the Union provost Marshal’s prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged ...

Pawley’s Island / Waccamaw Neck

Pawley’s Island

This island, located about ½ mile east, was used by plantation householders who lived on the seashore from May to November to escape malaria, or “summer fever.” A number of houses built about 1850, and the summer academy and ...

Porter Building

Santa Cruz County Historical Trust Landmark

1903

Porter Bldg.

Wm. Weeks, Architect

Designed for Warren Porter

Housed the Post Office until 1913

Marker is on Main Street near Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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Seventh Street Develops

Midcity at the Crossroads

In 1864 St. Patrick’s parish opened an Immaculate Conception Church for Catholics living far from its downtown F Street home. This imposing Gothic style building was completed a decade later. Renowned actress Helen Hayes was baptized ...

Presbyterian Church of Lamington

Built About 1740.

Rebuilt 1826.

Front Added 1854.

Marker is on Lamington Road, on the right when traveling west.

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