Fort Webb and Civil War Earthworks

In 1860, Bowling Green was a thriving city of about 2500 inhabitants with many local businesses, a woolen factory, a candle factory, several mills, an iron foundry, and a newspaper. This city was vital to the war effort of both ...

Lost River Cave and Valley

At various times during the Civil War, the Confederate and Union armies were garrisoned in Bowling Green. Many encamped around Lost River Cave. Soldiers on both sides recorded their impressions of Lost River Cave and Valley in diaries and letters.

"Probably ...

Defending the L&N Railroad

Building a Defence Stockade for the L&N Trestle on the Big Barren River

Railroad tracks, trestles and tunnels were frequent targets of Confederate cavalry raids and infantry attacks. During his "lightening raids" into Kentucky, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and ...

The Bridge

Four bridges have spanned the Barren River at this site. The center pylon dates from the first bridge that was built in 1838. The Confederate Army burned the 1838 wooden bridge when evacuating Bowling Green in 1862. The current bridge ...

Village of Great Bridge

A Vital Link

The village of Great Bridge was located at a strategic crossing of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. This canal, along with the Dismal Swamp Canal, was recognized as being a strategically important corridor by both the Union and ...

City Point’s Rails And Waterways

Tools of War for General Grant

City Point...tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert ...

Old Bethel Church

Built in 1790 as a meeting place for Methodists, this structure originally stood at third and Market Streets and

consisted of one large room with an end gallery (slave box). In 1828 it was moved to Church and Mulberry Streets

David Tannenberg

(1728-1804)

One of America’s foremost pipe organ builders. Tannenberg, born at Berthelsdorf, Germany, emigrated to the Moravian community at Bethlehem in 1749. From 1760-65 he lived at Burnside Plantation, where he built organs as an apprentice of Johann Gottlob Klemm (1690-1762), ...

Old Indian Reservation

Just to the north was the

Nottoway Indian Reservation.

William Byrd, while running

the boundry line between

Virginia and North Carolina,

visited these Indians April

7, 1729. Indians were living

here as late as 1825.

Marker is on Meherrin Road (VA 35) (Business U.S. 58), on the ...

Operation Dixie

Black leaf house workers in eastern N.C.

unionized in 1946. First pro-union vote,

at tobacco factory 1 block W., precursor

to civil rights movement.

Marker is at the intersection of Franklin Street (U.S. 301 S.) and McDonald Street, on the right ...