Fredericksburg Campaign

December 11, 1862. The peacetime bridges having been destroyed, engineers of Burnside’s Federal Army began laying pontoons across the Rappahannock. Here, overlooking the upper pontoon site, Confederates of Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, sheltered in houses and cellars along this street, stopped ...

Fort Frederick

In the Middle of this Street

To the East Stood

Fort Frederick

Goal of Burgoyne's Drive to

Split the Colonies - 1777

Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Street and Eagle Street and State Street, on the right when traveling south on ...

Fort Frederick

Fort Frederick Governor Edmund Andros Made an Inspection in Albany in 1676 and Found Fort Orange, Located Near the Foot of Madison Avenue in Poor Condition. He Ordered a New Fort Constructed at a Site in the Center of State ...

Here Fredericksburg Began

the Lease Land

John Buckner and Thomas Royston

First Settlers

May 2nd 1671 A.P.V.A

Marker is at the intersection of Sophia Street (Business Virginia Route 3 West) and William Street (Business Virginia Route 3 East), on the right when traveling north on Sophia Street. ...

John Frederick Steinman, Ph. B., LL. D.

August 21, 1884 - December 23, 1980

Graduate of the Yeates School, the Hotchkiss School, and Yale University

Publisher and chairman of the board of Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.

Chairman of the board, Intelligencer Printing Company

Co-founder of WGAL, Inc., and WGAL Television, Inc.

Trustee, Lancaster ...

Home of Frederick Henry Harvey

1835 - 1901

Fred Harvey, founder of the restaurant chain that bears his name, lived here from 1883 until his death. The family occupied the residence until 1943. It was transferred to the Leavenworth Board of Education in 1949.

Harvey pioneered well ...

George Frederick Cooke

1756-1812

Acclaimed as one of the greatest actors of his day, Cooke played Richard III to an audience of 2,000 in New York. After his death, legends abounded that his skull was stolen from his coffin and secretly used in ...

Battle of Fredericksburg

December 13, 1862 the Confederates under Lee defeated the Federals under Burnside in a sanguinary conflict marked by extraordinary bravery on both sides. In a series of gallant charges the Federal army sustained heavy losses and Burnside was forced to ...

Frederick House

The oldest building in

Acquackanonk can be found

in center of this house,

probably constructed in 1705.

Marker is on Alwood Road (County Route 602), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frederick Dewey Durham

(1899-1998)

Student, 1917-1920, 1921-1922

Six years after graduating from VPI, Fred Durham bought the C. Lee Cook Company, which merged with three other companies in 1955 to form Dover Corp., today a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. As president and chairman for 16 ...