The King's Highway ~ The Potomac Path

The King’s Highway was the first north-south route through Virginia. The road began in Boston and ended in Williamsburg. It may have followed one or more trails that American Indians used before European colonization.

The route was first cleared on ...

Mattermore - Malaney House

1875

This vernacular house is significant as a surviving example from Madison's earliest residential era and as an increasingly rare, intact, gable-front type house with wood clapboard siding. The elements which define this folk form are evident on the house: A ...

Battle of Smyrna

July 3, 1864. Gen. J. E. Johnston's army [CS] withdrew from Kennesaw Mtn. & occupied a double line of field-works which crossed the R. R. at old Smyrna Camp Ground, facing N. W. Loring's A. C. was on the rt. ...

Corporation Court House

(Left Side Plaque):City of

Fredericksburg

Virginia

Corporation Court House

Erected 1851-52

Mayor .....Robert B. Semple

Judge of Court .. John Tayloe Lomax

Building Commissioners

Thomas B. Berton, chairman

B.R. Wellford

William Allen

John Minor

John James Chew

Architect James Renwick

Contractor Wm. M. BaggottA former court house, erected on this site in 1733, was ...

The Yuba River Bridge at Parks Bar

1913 - 1994

William M. Thomas of Thomas and Post Consulting Engineers designed the 685-foot-long Parks Bar Bridge in 1912 for Yuba County. The original 16-foot-wide bridge with four 140-foot-long arch spans was constructed by the Portland Concrete Pile Company in ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2359

This is the site of Camp P-82, CCC Company 2359, Mineral Virginia. The camp was established in 1934 and provided work for more than two hundred young men during the depths of the Great Depression. Their responsibilities included clearing forest ...

Capture of the USS "Water Witch"

In May, 1864, the USS "Water Witch" (80 officers and men and 4 guns), Lt. Comdr. Austin Pendergrast, USN, was on patrol duty in Ossabaw Sound. On the 31st, Flag Officer Wm. W. Hunter, CSN, assigned Lt. Thos. P. Pelot, ...

The Corporation Burying Ground

and other Fredericksburg Cemeteries

The park around you was once known as the Corporation Burying Ground. Burials occurred here from 1787 through 1853 and included Dr. Charles Mortimer, who had been Mary Washington's personal physician. He also served as Fredericksburg's first ...

Confederate Prayer Service

Pendleton County Civil War Landmark

Near this site, in May 1862, following the battle of Mcdowell, General "Stonewall" Jackson received orders to return to the Shenandoah Valley while attending church service with the army.

Marker is on U.S. 220 0.1 miles north ...

To the Confederate Dead

(Text of tablet placed in 1992):In honor of Confederate Soldiers

who died in Fredericksburg Oct 1861 through Mar 1862

and buried in Barton St. Cemetery

No record of reinterment when site reused in 1920

Alabama

14th Infantry-

Archer G.W.

Barron W

Blair R

Brooks J M

Chalk B P

Clark J ...