Historic Glen Avenue

This colonial road, traditionally an Indian Trail, was a key route to Peremus Church during the American Revolution. Former names of this road mark eras in America’s history – Franklin Turnpike, for the Tory governor Wm. Franklin; Harrison Ave., for ...

Robert Newman's Barn

Here in 1639 stood the barn

of

Robert Newman

where the members of the

Colony of New Haven met for

worship and for the purpose

of organizing a government

Marker is at the intersection of Grove Street and Hillhouse Avenue, on the left when traveling north on ...

Stephen Dodson Ramseur

Confederate Major General

Woodside House, built in 1838 by Caleb Richmond, where General Ramseur recovered from wounds received in battles of Malvern Hill and Chancellorsville. Scene of his 28 October, 1863 marriage to his cousin Ellen Richmond. As Brigadier showed extraordinary ...

Approach to Carr's Ferry

1630 - 1930

First ferry across the Merrimack river from Newbury to Salisbury, established about 1639, and the only route from Boston to the eastern frontier. In 1641 George Carr was appointed ferryman with rights which continued in his family for ...

Bambo Harris Grist Mill

In c1795 Bambo Harris a freed black slave built and operated the first Water Driven gristmill in the area on Elk Creek. For fifty years his Millstones ground wheat and corn. A member of the Prairie Baptist Church, he was ...

Fort Willard

Civil War Fort constructed in 1862 as part of the defense system for Washington, D.C.

Site donated by

the developers of Belle Haven

Gene and Helen Olmi, Sr.

Gene and Natalie Olmi, Jr.

Fairfax County Park Authority

Marker can be reached from ...

54th Ohio Infantry - 55th Illinois Infantry

Stuart's Brigade - Sherman's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

54th Ohio, 55th Illinois,

Stuart's (2d) Brigade,

Sherman's (5th) Division.

These regiments were engaged here at 10 a.m. April 7, 1862. They advanced on the left of the 3d Division 3/4 of a mile where they ...

Ramseur Monument

Esse Quam Videri

Northwest of this tablet, 800 yards, is the Belle Grove House in which died, October 20, 1864, of wounds received at Cedar Creek October 19, 1864, Maj.-Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, C.S.A. A native of North Carolina, he resigned ...

Edgar Wells House

circa 1730

In the 1780s, it was owned

and occupied by

Dr. George Hahnbaum,

physician to the German

fusiliers and later a

founder of the Medical

Society of South Carolina.

The trajectory of a cannon

ball can be traced through the

timbers of the house.

Marker is on King ...

Miles Brewton House

Outstanding example of Georgian architecture in America. Built between 1765 and 1769 by Miles Brewton, Revolutionary patriot, with designs of Ezra Waite, architect. Inherited 1775 by Brewton’s sister, Rebecca Motte, Revolutionary heroine, in whose family it has remained. British headquarters ...