Battle of the Wilderness • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The Chewning Farm trailhead marker is on the west side of Hill-Ewell Drive at Stop Five of the Wilderness Battlefield Auto Tour.
Text rom the marker:
The Chewning Farm
On the ridge ahead of you stood the Chewning house, an important landmark on the Wilderness Battlefield. Sixty-nine-year-old William V. Chewning scratched out a living on this 150-acre farm during the war with the help of his wife Permelia and their two grown children. Union troops looted the farm in November 1863 but left the two-and-one-half-story frame house standing.
The building, extensively remodeled after the war, fell victim to fire in 1947. The farm road to your right leads to the Chewning house site. Exhibits there discuss the clearing’s tactical importance and its occupation by both Union and Confederate armies during the Battle of the Wilderness.
Trail length: 0.25 mile
Hiking time (round trip): 20 minutes
Grade: This is an easy hike
Location of the marker
The marker is at Tour Stop 5 on the west side of Hill-Ewell Drive 1.9 miles south of Virginia Route 20 and about 1.4 miles west of Orange Plank Road, Virginia Route 621. (38°17’45.2″N 77°44’39.4″W)
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