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Siedler's Building

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street near Schiller Street, on the right when traveling east.

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The Peters House

Circa 1840

was placed on the

National Register of

Historic Places

in 1972 by the

United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street near Schiller Street, on the left when traveling east.

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Stonewall Jackson Birthplace

Orgins of a Confederate Hero

The house in which Thomas J. Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, stood across the street and halfway down the block to your right. (marked with a bronze plaque). His father struggled to make ends ...

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Webster

Anna Jarvis House

Webster Station was located on the Northwestern Virginia Railroad. Webster was a major supply depot and many warehouses were located here. It also served as a staging area for troops. This was the southernmost station on the railroad. ...

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Little Sorrel

War horse of

Gen. T. J. Jackson

Placed by Virginia Division

United Daughters of

the Confederacy

July 30, 1997

Marker can be reached from Letcher Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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William Graham

1746 - 1799

Was the founder and first rector of Liberty Hall Academy which was later to become Washington and Lee University.

He was first buried in the churchyard of St. John’s Church, Richmond, VA.

In 1911 his remains were brought to Lexington ...

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General Lee’s Beloved Traveller

In Memory of

General Lee’s Beloved Traveller

Rarely has an animal captured so much affection.

Traveller, first called Jeff Davis and later Greenbrier, was born in 1857 near Blue Sulphur Springs (now in West Virginia). In 1862, Lee purchased him and renamed ...

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Randolph County Jail

Confining the "Bogus State Sheriff"

(Preface):On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that ...

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Occupied Beverly

Caught in the Midst of Conflict

Life in Beverly changed following the Union victory at Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861. Many of the community’s outspoken Southern sympathizers fled south. Some of those who remained resented the hardship that came with ...

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John Darby, Lot 14, 1786

John Wolfe, 1795

Jacob Shaffer, 1815

Thomas Reynolds

Robert McCoy

D.M.B. Shannon, 1856

Dr. John Kuhn, 1905

Dr. William Grove, 1950

James W. & Carol W. Smith, 1972

Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and E Seminary Street on N. Main Street.

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