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Laurel Hill is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The population at the 2020 census was 8,307. [1] Formerly part of the Lorton CDP, it comprises most of what was formerly the Lorton Reformatory grounds, which were purchased by Fairfax County in 2002 following the prison's closing and redeveloped as a new suburban community.
The Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights, also known as Laurel Hill and combats at Forts Harrison, Johnson, and Gilmer, was fought in Virginia on September 29–30, 1864, as part of the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War.
Laurel Hill Farm is a private park and historic home located in Ararat, Virginia.The birthplace of James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, seventy-five acres of the 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) plantation owned by the Stuart Family was saved in 1992 by the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust with assistance from the Civil War Trust, a division of the American Battlefield Trust. [3]
The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for nonviolent offenders serving short sentences. The District established an adjacent ...
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8078-2392-9. Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8071-1873-7. Rhea, Gordon C.
Laurel Hill Farm overview, 2017. Stuart was born at Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina.He was the eighth of eleven children and the youngest of the five sons to survive past early age. [4]
Laurel Hill, Lincoln County, North Carolina, an unincorporated community; Laurel Hill (Oregon), a historic hill on the Oregon Trail; Laurel Hill (Pennsylvania), also known as Laurel Ridge, located in the Allegheny Mountains; Laurel Hill, Virginia, a census-designated place in Fairfax County; Laurel Hill Cemetery (disambiguation)
Hearing of Pegram's defeat, Garnett abandoned Laurel Mountain in great disorder. The Federals pursued, and, during fighting at Corrick's Ford on July 13, Garnett was killed; he was the first general officer to be killed in the war. [14] On July 22, McClellan was ordered to Washington, and Rosecrans assumed command of Union forces in western ...