Markers

Map Markers Archive

Accokeek Iron Furnace Marker
Aquia Church Marker
Aquia Creek Marker
Aquia Landing Marker
Austin Run Pyrite Mine Marker
Belmont Marker
Cavalry Affairs Marker
Chatham Marker
Civil War Observation Balloon Site
Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2363 Marker
Cotton Warehouse
Counting House
Falmouth Railroad Station Marker
Ferry Farm Marker
Fredericksburg Campaign Marker
From Indian Path to Highway Marker
Gateway to Freedom Marker
Gen. Hooker's Headquarters Marker
Gold Mining in Stafford County Marker
Golgotha Church
Government Island Marker
Hartwood Presbyterian Church Marker
Historic Falmouth Marker
Hobby School Marker
Hunter's Iron Works Marker
Kidnapping of Pocahontas Marker
Lincoln Review Marker
Little Falls Marker
Magistrate’s Office Marker
Marlborough Marker
Moncure Daniel Conway Marker
Monument to Religious Freedom Marker
Mt Olive Baptist Church Marker
Mud March Marker
Olympians Marker
Palmer Hayden Marker
Patawomeck Indian Museum (Duff Green House)
Patawomeck Tribe Village Marker
Patowomeck People at Belle Plains Marker
Peyton's Ordinary
Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers
Shelton’s Cottage Marker
Stafford Civil War Park
Stafford County Armed Services Memorial
Stafford County Tri-Centennial Marker
Stafford Courthouse
Stafford Training School
Union Church
White Oak Museum Marker
White Oak Primitive Baptist Church
Widewater Peninsula Marker

Historic Falmouth Marker

Marker inscription:

The town of Falmouth was established here in 1727 at the falls of the Rappahannock River. One of Virginia’s busiest ports during the 18th and early 19th centuries, the town offered a tobacco inspection station, tobacco and cotton warehouses, flour mills, a ferry, and stores. Hunter’s Iron Works nearby provided crucial supplies to the Continental army during the American Revolution. Union forces arrived in Falmouth in April 1862 and returned to camp here during the winter of 1862-1863, after the First Battle of Fredericksburg. Thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to Union lines and freedom. Prominent residents have included abolitionist Daniel Conway and artist Gari Melchers.