Wheat and Tobacco

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

In spring and summer, wheat and tobacco grow in this garden. These two plants alone tell an important part of the history of this farm.

Tobacco was the most valuable crop in the American ...

Capt. Curtis Blakeman and the Marine Settlement

In memory of

Capt. Curtis Blakeman

and the

Marine Settlement

Just north of here, in 1819, a group of sea captains,

Blakeman, Allen, Breath, Deselherst, and Mead

from Connecticut, arrived and built log cabins,

naming the settlement Marine.

Captain Curtis Blakeman,

our great, great, great grandfather,

built an ox driven ...

Southern Branch Chapel / Battle of Great Bridge / Wilson Family

Site of

Southern Branch Chapel

A Chapel of ease of the Anglican Church

for the

Elizabeth River Parish 1701 - 1761

St. Brides Parish 1761 - 1845

Encampment area for American Patriots

Battle of Great Bridge

December 1775

First land battle for the American Revolution fought in Virginia

Residence of ...

From Lewis and Clark to the Future

Change came slowly to Spirit Mound after 1804. For 55 years the area remained the land of the Yankton Sioux, with fur traders conducting business from posts on the Missouri. The tallgrass prairie continued to thrive as it had for ...

World War Veterans Monument

[West Inscription]

Dedicated to Veterans

World War

[East Inscription]

Left Column: W.B. Alexander, Robert Lee Austin, R.M. Bagwell, L.A. Boggs, Willie Devoe Boggs, A.E. Brown, L.T. Bryant, Edmond J. Bryson, John W. Callaham, L.A. Cantrell, B.A. Chapman, Harry M. Chapman, A.W. Cox, Arthur D. ...

Spirit Mound

This trail leads to the summit of Spirit Mound, a sacred site for several Plains Indian tribes. Some tribal members make pilgrimages to Spirit Mound, say prayers on top, and leave offerings. As you approach and walk to the top, ...

Confederate Cemetery

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Burial of Confederates killed in a railroad collision, September, 1863, on land given by Mrs. Jane Glover, established this cemetery. Later more land was given by Ann Moyer and others, and the [CS] dead here from Marietta hospitals and the ...

Battle of Great Bridge DAR Monument

December 9, 1775

(side 1)

This monument honors

Patriots who assembled

at this site in the Cause of

American Freedom in 1775

American Patriots

at the Battle

Second Virginia Regiment

Commanded by

Colonel William Woodford,

of Caroline County, Virginia

Culpeper Minute Men

Battle of Great Bridge

December 9, 1775

Monument placed by the

Virginia Daughters of ...

Three Northampton Landmarks

Three miles west stands the third church of Hungars Parish, begun in 1742 and completed by 1751, one of two colonial churches remaining on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The parish built the glebe house or minister's residence, 5.5 miles west, about ...

Lewis and Clark Visit Spirit Mound

August 25, 1804

On the hot day of August 25, 1804, captains Lewis and Clark and several of their men walked from the river to explore Spirit Mound. They had heard that little people with deadly arrows inhabited the mound. Although ...