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Mairi & Dave's Gallivant Through Virginia and About

Our travels through the countryside of Virginia, deep in it's history.

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Hartwood Presbyterian Church & the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry

Captured while asleep inside the church building.

A Union Soldier’s Letter Home Camp California, Alexandria

Camp California was under the shelter of Fort Worth

Occoquan Visited by Serious Fire

Church, Bank Building, Manufacturing Plant, Stores and Residences Destroyed. Evening Star Sat, Aug 26, 1916.

Mitchell’s Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, Mitchell’s VA

Extensively decorated in trompe I’oeil fresco between 1892-99.

Grant’s Council of War & Massaponax Baptist Church

Called by Grant after the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

Aquia Episcopal Church, Stafford, VA Established 1667

It’s architecture, its history, and its cemetery all stand out.

White Post, Clarke County, Virginia and the Churches We Saw

Meade Memorial Episcopal, Ebenezer Primitive Baptist, White Post United Methodist.

Aquia Landing, The Underground Railroad & Henry Box Brown

WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF HENRY BOX BROWN.

Mosby’s Greenback Raid – Dividing the Spoils at Ebenezer Baptist Church

Finally, the answer to where the money was divided.

“The Winston Family Chapel” with Cemetery now Abandoned Winston, VA

This brownstone chapel, built around 1908.

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