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Other Virginia places have connections to John Marshall Date published: 3/7/2009
Monumental Church, 1224 E. Broad St., Richmond, was built as a monument to honor the people who died in the tragic Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811. Though the Marshall family had attended St. John's Church on Church Hill, they occupied pew No. 23 at Monumental, as Marshall had been instrumental in hiring Robert Mills, America's first native-born, professional architect, to design the church. Owned and operated today by Historic Richmond Foundation, it is open to the public May-October. (historicrichmond.com).
The Virginia State Capitol, 1788, where Marshall served as a member of the Virginia General Assembly. The capitol was extensively restored and extended in 2007 and is open free to the public, Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (first guided tour, 9 a.m.; last tour, 4 p.m.). (virginiacapitol .gov).
The Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William & Mary, where Marshall's 12 volumes of published papers reside, is one of four law schools in the United States named for him. Like his cousin Thomas Jefferson, he studied law at William & Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe (wm.edu/law).
John Marshall's birthplace in Fauquier County is a park. (visitfauquier .com).
For more information on John Marshall, check out JohnMarshallFoundation .org.
Date published: 3/7/2009
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