Historical Markers in
Frederick County, Virginia

127th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 128th New York Volunteer Regiment 128th Regt N.Y.S.V.I. 1769 1787 1787 1790 Stone Church 1791 1798 1801 1807 1812 1812 1817 1818 1820 1821 1824 1824 1825 1825 1825 1826 1826 1827 1831 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1840 1842 1845 1846 1846-47 / Philip Y. Wyatt 1848 1848 1848 1849 1849 1850 1850 1851 1851 1851 1851 1851 1852 1854 1854 1854 1854 / 1925 1855 1855 1855 1855 1855 1862 1866 1870 1870 1870s Residence 1871 1871 1872 1875 1875 1877 1877 1877 1878 1878 1879 1879 1879 1881 1881 1881 1882 1883 1883 1883 1883 1884 1884 1884 1885 1885 1885 1886 1888 1888 1888 / Lot 255 1890 1890 1890 1890 1890 1890 1891 1891 1891 1892 1893 1893 1893 1894 1895 1896 1896 1899 1899 1900 1901 1902 1904 1905 1908 1908 1909 1910 1910 1912 1912 1914 1916 1916 1916-1917 1919 1919 1920 1920 1922 1930 1st Lt. Benjamin Hall 1st Maine Battery 1st Maryland Battery (CSA) Memorial 2nd Battle of Winchester 2nd Lt. Jeff Graham 3rd Battle of Winchester 401 Hanover Street 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry A Canal Defines Its Neighborhood A Diversion: Second Battle of Fredericksburg A History of Floods A Memorial Landscape A Moment in Time: Circa 1925 A Murderous Fire A Once Promising Canal Becomes a Raceway A Rich Prize A Sacked and Gutted Town A Segregated Park Service A Vast Hospital A Vibrant but Segregated Community A Walking Tour of Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District A Walking Tour of Fredericksburg’s Historic Old Mill District A Winter Campaign Ends in Union Disaster A Witness to History Abolitionists Action at Stephenson’s Depot Action of Rutherford’s Farm Acts of Bravery Alabama Amoroleck Encounters John Smith Andrew Atkinson Humphreys Andrew Pitman House Angel of Marye's Heights Artillery on Lee's Hill Auction Block Auction Block Barton Street Confederate Monument Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Cedar Creek 1864 Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Kernstown Battle of Kernstown Battle of Kernstown Battle of Rutherford's Farm Battlefield Center Battles of Fredericksburg Bearing the Brunt Big Gun at Howison Hill Bound for Freedom Braehead Bridgewater Mills Brig. Gen. John Minor Brompton Building a Railroad Through a Stream Valley c. 1740s c. 1770 c. 1785 c. 1785 c. 1785 c. 1787 c. 1787 c. 1790 c. 1803 c. 1806 c. 1816 c. 1821 c. 1822 c. 1830 c. 1835 c. 1840 c. 1885 c. 1938 Calvin Coolidge Camp Cobb at Gunnery Springs Captain Robert Young Conrad Capture of Star Fort Carl's Cedar Creek Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Center of Eighteenth Century Urban Life circa 1805 Civil Rights Civil War Earthworks Civil War Earthworks Clark County / Frederick County Cobb Col. George Eskridge Memorial Tree Col. Joseph A. Moesch Col. Paul M. Kelly Colonel Charles Russell Lowell Colonel John Singleton Mosby Confederate and Federal Defenses in May 1863 Confederate Artillery Confederate Artillery Defense Confederate Cemetery Confederate Defenses in December 1862 Confederates on the Ridge Constitutional Crisis Constructing Star Fort Contact: An Industrial Society Confronts A Native American Culture Corporation Court House Counterattack! Cpl. Adam Fargo Cpl. Brett Lee Lundstrom Defenses of Winchester Dr. James Thornley House Early Moves to Battle Elmhurst Embrey Dam Encounter at the Fall Line End Of Sheridan’s Ride Endurance Through It All Engagement Of Middletown Eve of Battle Fall Hill Road Falls of the Rappahannock River Federal Hill Ferries and Flats Field of Battle Fight for the High Ground Fire on Caroline Street First Battle of Kernstown First Battle of Winchester First Stop on 1961 Freedom Rides Fort Collier Fort Collier Fort Collier Fraternizing at the Ford Frederick County / Shenandoah County Frederick County Va. / West Virginia Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Fredericksburg Baptist Church Fredericksburg Battlefield Fredericksburg Campaign Fredericksburg Campaign Fredericksburg Campaign Fredericksburg Campaign Fredericksburg Cemeteries and the Corporation Burying Ground Fredericksburg City Dock Fredericksburg City Dock Fredericksburg City Dock Fredericksburg City Hall Fredericksburg Granite Fredericksburg Gun Manufactory Fredericksburg National Cemetery Fredericksburg National Cemetery Fredericksburg Normal and Industrial Institute Fredericksburg Pentecostal Church Fredericksburg Roll of Honor Fredericksburg United Methodist Church Fredericksburg's Rail Station Fredericksburg's Wharves and Harbor Freedom Riders Challenge a Nation Fréjus Place French John's Wharf From a Burying Ground to a Park Fury On The Fence Line Gainesboro Gen. Russell Hastings Gen. Stonewall Jackson General Daniel Morgan / Winchester George Rogers Clark George Washington in Winchester George Washington: Soldier and Virginia Planter George Washington: Surveyor and Family Man George Washington’s Boyhood Home at Ferry Farm Germania Mill: Recovering from the Civil War Goolrick-Caldwell House Gun from the CSS Virginia Hackwood Park Hallelujah Harnessing The River's Power Harriet Jacobs Heater Fields Heater House Heflin Apartment Henry "Box" Brown Historic Footsteps Historic Kenmore Historic Kenmore and George Washington's Ferry Farm Hopewell Friends Meeting House Hostages House of First Settler How To See the Battlefield Hugh Mercer Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop Hunter's Raid Begins Hydroelectricity Brings Changes to Fredericksburg In Honor of Joist Hite (1685-1761) In Memory of All American Veterans In Memory of Clara Barton In Memory of the Many Soldiers of the Revolution In Memory of William Hoge (1660 - 1749) and His Wife Barbara Hume Hoge (1670 - 1745) Inalienable Rights Industrial Interlude Innis House Irish Brigade John Paul Jones House John Rutherford's Farm Jordan Springs Jost Hite and Winchester Kenmore Kernstown Battles Kirkland Monument Lance Cpl. Caleb Powers Lease Land Lee Drive: The Confederate Line Lee's Command Post Lee's Headquarters Lee's Hill, the commander's lookout Lee’s Hill Lee’s Position Lewis Randolph Ball Liberty Town Life on the Huntsberry Farm Lord Fairfax Lt. Collier’s Earthworks Major General Robert Emmett Rodes Market Square Mary Washington Burial Site Mary Washington House Marye's Heights Masonic Cemetery Masonic Lodge Meditation Rock Mercantile Warehouse Middle Passage Middletown Middletown Virginia Molineux's 2nd Brigade Monte Vista Mount Zion Baptist Church Mrs. Martha Stevens N.C. Troops at Cedar Creek National Bank of Fredericksburg Near Disaster Newtown Newtown Stephensburg Historic District No Outlet North Carolina At Third Winchester Northern Victory, Southern Defeat Old Hall at Belle Grove Old Stone Church at Greenspring Old Stone Fort Opequon Presbyterian Church Opequon Village Parker's Battery Pettus Cousins in the Battle of First Kernstown Physician's Office Plantation Office & Store Plantation Slavery Pontoon Bridge Site Prisoners of Christ Quest For Knowledge Ramseur Monument Rappahannock River Heritage Trail Rappahannock River Heritage Trail Ravaged Town Reestablishing a Travel Way Religious Liberty Ricketts’s Attack Rising Sun Tavern Rocky Lane Rocky Lane Rose Hill Runaways Rutherford's Farm Second Battle of Kernstown Second Battle of Winchester Second Battle of Winchester Second Battle of Winchester Second Battle of Winchester Second Battle of Winchester Seeking Cover Sgt. 1st Class Michael Lynn Russell Sgt. David Ruhren Sgt. Dustin Perrott Sgt. Joshua Frazier Sgt. Maj Cornell Gilmore Sgt. Nicholas Mason Shenandoah At War Sheridan Renews The Attack Shiloh Baptist Cemetery Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site) Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) Site of Barton House Slowing the Advance Spanish War Veterans Spec. Jeremy Hodge Spirit of Freedom St. Georges Episcopal Church St. George's Graveyard Staff Sgt. David Parson Staff Sgt. Robert Stanley Star Fort Stephens City Stephens Family Stephens Family Cemetery Stephenson Depot Sunken Road Sunken Road Walking Trail Tactical Terrain Ten Thousand Devils The Advance of Tyler’s Brigade The African Baptist Church The Barton Street Potter's Field The Bass-Ellison Building The Battle of Cedar Creek The Battle of Cedar Creek The Battle of Fredericksburg from Lee's Hill, December, 1862 The Battle of Rutherford's Farm The Booth House The Canal Ditch The Canal Ditch: Battlefield Obstacle The Cauldron The Cavalry Charge at Fort Collier The Confederate Line The Court House The Defense of the Stone Wall The Ebert House and Store The Enslaved Burial Ground The Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac The First Battle of Kernstown The First Battle Of Kernstown The First Battle of Kernstown The First Battle of Kernstown The First Battle of Winchester The Glass Homestead and Mill The Great Indian (and Wagon) Road The Green Book The Heights at Smith Run The Killing Fields The Lewis Store The Middle Field The Middle Passage The Missionary House The Old Graveyard The Order for Retreat The Original Wall The Pioneers The Pritchard House The Railway, With Tracks and Without The Rappahannock River Runs Free Once More The Rowe House The Second Battle of Fredericksburg The Second Battle of Fredericksburg The Second Battle of Kernstown The Second Battle of Kernstown The Second Battle of Winchester The Second Town Hall The Sentry Box The Shenandoah Valley / Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 The Slave Ship Othello The Stephens House The Stone Warehouse The Stonewall Brigade at Pughtown The Sunken Road The Third Battle of Winchester The Third Battle of Winchester The Third Battle of Winchester The Third Battle of Winchester The Union Attacks Begin The Vermont Brigade Counterattacks The Walker Landram House The West Woods The Willis Hill Buildings Third Battle Of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Third Battle of Winchester Thomas R. R. Cobb Thornton's Tavern Three Battlefields To the Confederate Dead Tomb Of An Unknown Soldier Union Camps Union Trenches Union Withdrawal Vermont at Cedar Creek Veterans of Foreign Wars Eternal Flame Virginia Central Railway Trail Virginia Central Railway Trail Voices of the Past Voices of the Present War Comes to Fredericksburg War In The Backyard Washington's Boyhood Home Water Powered Industries Welcome Welcome to Fredericksburg, Va Welcome to Historic Kenmore West Virginia / Frederick County Willa Cather Birthplace William Cox Residence Willis Hill Cemetery Willow Shade "Like A Thousand Bricks" “Fall Hill” “Fall Hill” “Shrapnel Rained On Us”
Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married.
Frederick County, Virginia has a rich history dating back to its establishment in 1743. Originally part of Orange County, Frederick County was named in honor of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King George II. The county expanded over the years, and it played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War.

During the Revolutionary War, Frederick County was an important center of activity. It was home to the strategic Winchester and served as a gathering place for soldiers, supplies, and strategists. The county witnessed several key battles, including the Second Battle of Winchester in 1863 during the Civil War. The war left scars on the region, but Frederick County played a crucial role in shaping the outcome.

In the late 19th century, Frederick County experienced a period of growth and prosperity. With the arrival of the railroad in the 1850s, the county's economy boomed as trade and transportation flourished. Agriculture, particularly the cultivation of wheat and apples, became important industries. The growth of Winchester, the county seat, led to the development of schools, churches, and other civic institutions.

In the 20th century, Frederick County continued to evolve. It experienced a surge in population due to increased industrialization and urbanization. The region became known for its manufacturing sector, especially in the areas of textiles, wood, and metal products. Today, Frederick County retains its historical charm with many preserved buildings and landmarks, while also embracing modern developments and a diverse economy.

This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Frederick County, Virginia.

  • 1738: Frederick County, Virginia is established by the Virginia General Assembly.
  • 1753: Winchester becomes the county seat of Frederick County.
  • 1761: The region experiences significant growth due to an influx of settlers from Pennsylvania and Maryland.
  • 1775-1783: Frederick County residents actively participate in the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1780s: A judicial district is established in Winchester, further solidifying its importance within the county.
  • 1836: The town of Stephens City is incorporated within Frederick County.
  • 1861-1865: Frederick County witnesses the impact of the American Civil War, including the Battle of Cedar Creek.
  • 1871: Winchester and Frederick County become separate political entities.
  • 1952: The construction of Interstate 81 begins, providing enhanced transportation access to Frederick County.
  • Present: Frederick County continues to grow in population and economic development.