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The unhealthy position of Jamestown inspired the establishment of a new town in a more salubrious, easily defended place up the James River. In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale selected Farrar’s Island, naming it Henrico or Henricus in honor of Prince Henry. The ambitious plans for a new capital along with a college for Indians here did not mature. By 1619 only “three old houses and a ruinated church” remained. The place was abandoned altogether after the Indian uprising of 1622. The Henrico town site was probably destroyed by earthmoving undertaken in 1864 by Union troops to shorten the course of the James River. What remains of the island’s tip is now part of Henricus Historical Park, established by Chesterfield County and the Henricus Foundation in 1986. The church is commemorated by a cross erected in 1911 and the university by an obelisk erected in 1910.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
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