Princess Burial Mound

Ancient people built this mound to mark a young woman's grave. The mound was the last in a line that once bordered the western side of the ancient community of Aztalan and the only one that contained a burial. Her ...

Norfolk and Western Passenger Station

The David R. and Susan S. Goode Railwalk

Across the tracks and east is N&W’s last passenger station, now home to the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau and O. Winston Link Museum.

The little town of Big Lick changed its name ...

U.S. Colored Troops

In memory of the valorous service of Regiments and Companies of the U.S. Colored Troops Army of the James and Army of the Potomac Siege of Petersburg 1864 – 65

Marker is on Siege Road, on the left when traveling south. ...

Beech Branch Baptist Church

Constituted September 12, 1759

as Coosawhatchie Church, this

church became in 1882 Beech

Branch Baptist Church. The

present lot was granted in 1796

and occupied by 1815. The building

was remodeled in 1908 and in 1960,

electricity having been installed and

the porch added in ...

Mount Pleasant

Near here stood the plantation and Thoroughbred stables of Col. John Hoskins (1751-1813), one of the foremost breeders in the country. In 1800 Col. Robert Sanders, of Scott Co., Ky., bought one of Hoskins's horses, Melzar, for ten times the ...

Seven Days' Campaign

Gaines's Mill

On 25 June 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia in the Seven Days' Campaign to drive Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and his Army of the Potomac from the gates of Richmond. By 27 ...

Fifth Army Corps

Fourth United States Infantry

U.S.A.

Fifth Army Corps

Fourth United States Infantry (8 Cos.).

Captain Hiram Dryer, 4th U.S. Infantry, Commanding.

September 16-17, 1862.

On the morning of the 16th, the 4th Infantry seized the middle bridge over the Antietam; companies B. G. I. and K. ...

Captain Kimberly Hampton

Dedicated to the memory of

Captain Kimberly Hampton

August 18, 1976 - January 9, 2004

United States Army

OH-58 Helicopter Pilot

Fallujah, Iraq

Who gave her life in the service of her country.

Marker is on North 1st Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“A Splendid Charge”

Here at Petersburg on June 15, 1864, African-American troops recorded their first major success of the war in Virginia.

“They made a splendid charge…and won great favor in the eyes of white soldiers by their courage and bravery.”

- Wilbur Fiske, ...

The Indentured Servants' Plot

During the summer of 1663, indentured servants (held for several years of service) in the Poropotank River and Purtan Bay region plotted an insurrection against their masters to occur on 13 Sept. 1663. It was prevented when John Berkenhead, servant ...