Winchester City Historical Markers

Here Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson and his army, early on the morning of 25 May 1862, defeated Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Bank &... [click for more]

On May 24, 1862, Confederate forces under Major General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson pursued Major General Nathaniel Banks' Union Army from Strasburg t... [click for more]

Here in May 1756, overlooking the frontier town of Winchester, construction began on Fort Loudoun during the period of the Seven Years' War. The fort,... [click for more]

(Obverse:) Morgan used this road in traveling from his home, Saratoga, to Winchester. He was a frontiersman, Indian fighter and the commander of Morga... [click for more]

Here was located George Washington's five-acre out-lot from Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, by grant of 15 May 1753. Fairfax also granted him a... [click for more]

This house was used by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, then commanding the valley district, department of Northern Virginia, as his official headquarters... [click for more]

Thomas Fairfax (1693-1781), sixth Baron Fairfax of Cameron, was the proprietor of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a vast land holding that lay between ... [click for more]

On this site lived Mary Greenhow Lee, whose extensive diary survives as one of the most informative records of daily life in Civil War Virginia. Lee c... [click for more]

Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), world-famous singer, lived in this house. She was born in Winchester Memorial Hospital on 8 Sept. 1932. On ... [click for more]

Here was born and reared Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator and polar explorer. A 1912 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, he received the Medal of Honor for the f... [click for more]

The Great Indian Road, called Philadelphia Wagon Road by many settlers, was developed by Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) warriors traveling in the 1700s thro... [click for more]

Near here Early, facing east, took his last position on September 19, 1864. About sundown he was attacked and driven from it, retreating south. Presid... [click for more]