Bacon Race Church

Confederate Occupation

Confederate Col. Wade Hampton’s South Carolina Legion appropriated Bacon Race Church as a field hospital in mid-August 1861 and named the site “Camp Griffin” for Hampton’s subordinate, Lt. Col. James B. Griffin. The unit broke camp on September 20 ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Johnson’s Big Cut

“Fire in the Hole!”

In 1908, a Milwaukee contractor named Johnson needed to blast out a path through the rock face next to the Barnes Creek Trestle, #218. Blasters chiseled out five “coyote holes”, stuffed them with 25,000 pounds of blasting ...

Chimborazo Hospital

1861-1865

In this park Dr. James B. McCaw developed for the Confederate States of America a military hospital which was then the largest in human history. It received 17,000 wounded, served more than 76,000 patients, and had a mortality of less ...

Battle of Bloody Run

Nearby is the site where Chief Totopotomoy of the Pamunkey died in 1656. The English colonists had become concerned over the recent settlement nearby of the Rickohockans along the falls of the James River. They called upon Totopotomoy to assist ...

Bicentennial Park

This marker and plaza proudly acknowledges the significant contributions of John William Morrow, Jr., and countless citizens for the betterment of this community.

Born in 1918 in Hall County, John W. Morrow, Jr., graduated Booker T. Washington High in Atlanta and ...

Into the "Bottle"

The Union Army of the James, retiring across Proctor's Creek in this vicinity after the battle of Drewry's Bluff, May 16, 1864, turned east into the Peninsula between the James and Appomattox Rivers, where it was "Bottled" by Confederate forces.

Marker ...

Capt. Jacob Faulcon, C.S.A.

In memory of

Capt. Jacob Faulcon, C.S.A.

of this village

who was shot and instantly killed

by a party of Federal raiders at a

point one hundred and fifty yards

S.E. of this building

Nov. 11, 1864

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Church Street (County ...

Bombproof

Two bombproofs, each measuring 200 feet long by 12.5 feet wide, were located in the center of Fort Ward. During normal operations the bombproofs were used as meeting rooms, storage facilities, and sometimes as a prison. In the event of ...

Noble Hall

Marker Front:

The Greek Revival rock and mortar house was built by Addison Frazer (1809-1873) between 1852 and 1854 and served as the center for a 2,000 acre cotton plantation. Frazer owned 100 slaves and was on the Board of Trustees ...

453rd Bomb Group

1943 - 1945

453rd Bomb Group

2nd Combat Wing

2nd Air Division

Old Buckenham

England

8th Air Force

Dedicated May 8 1984

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