Virginia Estelle Randolph

The daughter of parents born in slavery, Virginia Randolph (1874-1958) taught in a one-room schoolhouse beginning in 1892. A gifted teacher, she became in 1908 the nation's first Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher, a position sponsored by the Anna T. Jeanes ...

Virginia Civil Rights Memorial

On April 23, 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Johns and several fellow students led a strike to protest the deplorable conditions at their racially segregated Prince Edward County school. The Rev. L. Francis Griffin united parents in support of the strike and ...

3rd West Virginia Cavalry

Erected by the state of

West Virginia

to commemorate the

valor and fidelity

of the

Third West Virginia Cavalry

Marker is on Buford Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dance's Battalion - First Virginia Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Artillery Reserve

Dance's Battalion

First Virginia Artillery

Cunningham's, Smith's, Watson's, Griffin's

and Graham's Batteries

Four 20 pounder Parrotts, Four 10 pounder Parrotts

Ten 3 inch Rifles, Two Napoleons

July 1 The Battalion reached the field in evening too ...

Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia

C.S.A.

In this field was located

headquarters of the Army of

Northern Virginia

July 1. 2. 3. 4. 1863

"My headquarters were in tents in an

apple orchard back of the Seminary

along the Chambersburg Pike"

Robt. E. Lee

Marker is on Chambersburg Pike (U.S. 30), on the right ...

First Virginia Infantry Regiment

Dedicated to the memory of the men of the First Virginia Infantry Regiment. Army of Northern Virginia. Killed near this place on 16 May 1864.

Alphonzo A. Figner, Company I

Archibald D. Govan, Company D

Jerry Toomey, Company B

James A. Via, Company H

Robert ...

West Virginia Penitentiary

Established, 1866, A prison for

men and women convicted of

felonies until prison for wom-

en was established at Pence

Springs, 1947. Capital criminals

were hanged here, 1889-1950.

Electric chair used until death

penalty was abolished. 1965.

Marker is on Jefferson Avenue south of 8th Street, on the ...

Virginia Air National Guard

In 1947, Virginia received its first Air Guard unit designated as the 149th Fighter Squadron. Founded by the Virginia legislature in 1946 and recognized by the National Guard Bureau in 1947, it is directly descended from the historic 328th Fighter ...

Wise (Virginia) Artillery

C.S.A.

Wise (Virginia) Artillery.

Capt. J.S. Brown, Commanding.

The Wise Artillery was the only one of the four batteries attached to D.R. Jones' Division which was present on the field.

During the greater part of the engagement it occupied the high ground about 340 ...

1st Virginia Cavalry

This site was occupied

by the 1st Virginia Cavalry

under Lieutenant Colonel

William Washington Cont’l

Line and it was here Captain

Griffin Fauntleroy, 1st Va.

Lt. Dragoons, Cont’l Line

was mortally wounded on

March 15, 1781.

Born September 28, 1754.

Northumberland Co., Va.

Marker is on Auto Tour Road, on the ...