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    Historical Highway Markers

    Historical Highway Marker Program

    Established in 1926, Virginia’s Historical Highway Marker Program is one of the oldest in the nation. Originally intended to commemorate such traditional subjects as military events, Find Out More

  • Hakluyt, “For that these men, schooled in the house...
  • Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616)
  • Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1530–1591)
  • Nancy Hale (1908–1988)
  • Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (December...
  • Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris (January 13,...
  • Letter from Alexander Hamilton to James Bayard (January 16,...
  • Letter from Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (March 14,...
  • Ross Hamilton (ca. January 1843–May 2, 1901)
  • Earl Hamner Jr. (1923–2016)
  • Ralph Hamor (bap. 1589–by October 11, 1626)
  • Hampton Roads Conference
  • Gordon Blaine Hancock (1884–1970)
  • "Hanged by a Mob," Alexandria Gazette (April 23, 1897)
  • “Hard Times in the Sixth Virginia,” Richmond Planet (December...
  • Hard War in Virginia during the Civil War
  • Thomas Hariot (ca. 1560–1621)
  • Marion Harland (1830–1922)
  • Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (March 24,...
  • Harpers Ferry during the Civil War
  • Alfred W. Harris (1853–1920)
  • Henry Clay Harris (d. after October 5, 1905)
  • J. D. Harris (ca. 1833–1884)
  • Mrs. Burton Harrison (1843–1920)
  • Gessner Harrison (1807–1862)
  • William Henry Harrison (1773–1841)
  • Sir John Harvey (ca. 1581 or 1582–by 1650)
  • John Hawxhurst (1817–1881)
  • “He Paid an Awful Penalty,” Charlottesville Daily Progress (July 12, 1898)
  • “He sould me to him for a towne”; an...
  • The Healers; an excerpt from La Relación by Álvar...
  • Hemings-Jefferson DNA; an excerpt from “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last...
  • Sally Hemings (1773–1835)
  • Helen Timmons Henderson (1877–1925)
  • “Henrietta King”; an excerpt from Weevils in the Wheat...
  • Henry D. Smith (d. by December 2, 1901)
  • “Henry Martin, 1826–1915” by John S. Patton, Alumni Bulletin...
  • “Henry Martin” by David M. R. Culbreth, The University...
  • Excerpt from Life of George Henry by George Henry...
  • Patrick Henry (1736–1799)
  • Hercules (b. ca. 1754)
  • The Herrman Map of Virginia and Maryland
  • Henry Heth (1825–1899)
  • Highland
  • Highway Bond Referendum, 1923
  • Letter from James Hill to George Washington (August 30,...
  • Letter from James Hill to George Washington (December 13,...
  • A. P. Hill (1825–1865)
  • Henry C. Hill (ca. 1815–September 7, 1905)
  • Oliver W. Hill (1907–2007)
  • Corinna Hinton (1835–1887)
  • Hiring Out of the Enslaved
  • Historical Highway Marker Program
  • Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the Seventh Regiment...
  • Excerpt from History of the Sixth New York Cavalry...
  • Charles E. Hodges (1819–after April 15, 1910)
  • John Q. Hodges (1841–after June 1, 1900)
  • William Johnson Hodges (d. 1872)
  • Willis A. Hodges (1815–1890)
  • William Hoffman (1925–2009)
  • Hold, To Have and to (1900)
  • Hollins Critic, The
  • Joseph R. Holmes (ca. 1838–1869)
  • A. Linwood Holton (1923–2021)
  • Honorary Virginians
  • Joseph Hooker (1814–1879)
  • "Horrible Tragedy," Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (May 24,...
  • “Hoses Used on Danville Negroes” (June 11, 1963)
  • Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899)
  • House Joint Resolution No. 607 (2001)
  • House of Burgesses
  • Houses in Early Virginia Indian Society
  • “How long Servants without Indentures shall Serve” (1658)
  • “How the name ther children”; an excerpt from “Relation...
  • “How unworthy a choice”; an excerpt from the preface...
  • Francis Howard fifth baron Howard of Effingham (bap. 1643–1695)
  • Henry E. Howell (1920–1997)
  • The Thomas Hughes Affair; an excerpt from Isaac T....
  • The humble Petition of Jane Dickenson Widdowe (1624)
  • The Humble Petition of Sarah Drummond (1677)
  • James W. Hunnicutt (1814–1880)
  • Gilbert Hunt (ca. 1780–1863)
  • William Hunter (d. 1761)
  • Hurricane Camille (August 1969)
  • The Huskanaw Ritual; an excerpt from The History of...
  • Huskanaw

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