Dunlop's Station

At the nearby junction of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Confederate military spur line to Ettrick, stood Dunlop's Station, a Confederate telegraph post and supply depot. During the siege of Petersburg, southbound passengers were detrained here to avoid ...

John and Polly Garrett House

It took John and Polly Garrett five years to build this house. During that five year period, they lived in the small log home to your right. The Garrett's moved into this house in 1835. Four years later, Polly gave ...

A Union General Escapes Capture

In 1863, this building to your right, was the home and cabinetmaker’s shop of Henry Garlach and family.

Cut off during the Union retreat to Cemetery Hill, General Alexander Schimmelfennig was able to avoid capture by the Confederates, when he hid ...

Dunlop Station

"...burning cartridges like shooting stars"

Dunlop Station on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was located here on the southern boundary of David Dunlop's Ellerslie estate. During the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865, a military rail spur was completed in March ...

Hardee's Corps

Lieut. Gen. William J. Hardee.

Cheatham's Division, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham.

Hindman's Division, Brig. Gen. Patton Anderson.

Walker's Division, Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist.

Nov. 23ed Cheatham's and Walker's divisions held the left of the Confederate line from Chattanooga Creek to the base ...

Swift Creek Battlefield: A Landscape of Change

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Richmond to ...

Pardee Rose Garden

Pardee Rose Garden

Planted and Maintained under

the Will and Bequest of

William Scranton Pardee

of this City as a

lasting Memorial of his Mother

Nancy Maria English Pardee

MCMXXII

Marker is at the intersection of Park Road and Farm Road, on the left when traveling north on ...

Camp Bull

Situated on land owned by Thomas Worthington, Camp Bull was a stockade constructed in this vicinity to confine British prisoners of war during the War of 1812. When Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British fleet on Lake Erie on ...

Pyle's Defeat

February 1781

Near this location, mounted Loyalists from Chatham and southern Orange counties led by Col. John Pyle, and on their way to join Gen. Cornwallis in Hillsborough, were defeated by units of Gen. Greene's American Army led by Col. Henry ...

An Inspiring Commander in Chief

The Battle of Monmouth

26 June 1778

The Commander in Chief was every where, his Presence gave Spirit and Confidence and his command and authority soon brought every thing into order and Regularity."

Major General Nathanael Greene, 2 July 1778

For hours, through a ...