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Folks,
I attended the Dept. of Historic Resources meeting last Thursday which featured the Commonwealth's Historic Resources Board and the State Review Board.
There were some very interesting, unusual, and spectacular listings. Perhaps the most awed over was the 14,000+ acres of Fauquier County's rural historic district which as I recall featured nearly 500 buildings many of which in relevance to our period of interest hosted John Mosby and his men. Additional buildings included was the home of Chief Justice John Marshall, 18th and 19th century mills and churches, and a host of early 20th century strucutres.
High Bridge, first constructed in the late 1850s for the Southside Railroad Company and then a new bridge built around 1914, was listed. The 1850s bridge was fought over on April 6th and 7th, 1865 during Lee's retreat from Petersburg. Confederate cavalry General James Dearing was mortally wounded in the fighting there.
Additionally, several Confederate camps which are found on the Marine base, Quantico, were surveyed and added. A blurb about this can be found at: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT .
I attended the Dept. of Historic Resources meeting last Thursday which featured the Commonwealth's Historic Resources Board and the State Review Board.
There were some very interesting, unusual, and spectacular listings. Perhaps the most awed over was the 14,000+ acres of Fauquier County's rural historic district which as I recall featured nearly 500 buildings many of which in relevance to our period of interest hosted John Mosby and his men. Additional buildings included was the home of Chief Justice John Marshall, 18th and 19th century mills and churches, and a host of early 20th century strucutres.
High Bridge, first constructed in the late 1850s for the Southside Railroad Company and then a new bridge built around 1914, was listed. The 1850s bridge was fought over on April 6th and 7th, 1865 during Lee's retreat from Petersburg. Confederate cavalry General James Dearing was mortally wounded in the fighting there.
Additionally, several Confederate camps which are found on the Marine base, Quantico, were surveyed and added. A blurb about this can be found at: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT .