• About Mahockney
    • A Historical Timeline
    • About the Name
  • Art and Architecture
    • Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation
      • English Basement North
      • English Basement South
    • Mahockney’s John Tyler Portrait
      • Artist King and Subject Tyler
      • A Comparison of Charles Bird King’s Work 
      • Identifying the Mahockney portrait’s subject as John Tyler, 10th President of the United States
    • The Bricks of Mahockney
  • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane & Patrick Henry
  • The Grounds
    • Sights along the Underwood Trail
  • Who Lived Here
    • The Civil War Era

Mahockney

~ America's Story Told Through the History of One of its Oldest Houses

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LG Tyler on politics in America

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1884: From Lyon G. Tyler, The Life and Times of the Tylers (published 1884): All parties that have ever existed …

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Depicting the calamity in the Capitol

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1870, April 27: From the Library of Virginia website, lva.virginia.gov: The Richmond Calamity-Citizens and Firemen Removing the Wounded, the Dying …

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Born at the midpoint of the Civil War, Santayana captures the Confederate legacy in a line

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1863, December 16: In the middle of the Civil War, far away, George Santayana is born in Madrid, Spain. He …

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Tappahannock civilian to (briefly) occupying Yankees: “If I were able I would kill every damn one of you where you stand”

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April 14, 1862: Union forces made the first of what would be for landings at Tapphannock during the war. The …

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1861, May 23: Virginia’s Decline and Fall in light of Gibbon, Spengler, Wilde and Waugh

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1861, May 23: Virginia voters approve secession, thus finally (to my mind) reaching bottom in the Commonwealth’s descent from the …

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Lincoln splits no rails in Essex County.

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In the 1860 election, Essex County was divided. Severely. There were four men on the presidential ballot. John Bell, who …

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John Bell plays the Slavery card

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1860, May 9: The Constitutional Union Party held its convention in Baltimore, and wound up nominating John Bell of Tennessee, …

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1859 April 13 Cousin John Latane at UVA before the War

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John Latane, born at The Meadows and first-cousin to the Mahockney Latanes, was a University of Virginia student in the …

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Virginia’s new “Reform Constitution” passes

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1851, October 23-25: The ratification referendum was held – and passed – on the new popularly-titled “Reform Constitution.” Among the …

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Ann Waring Latane marries A.J. Clopton

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1848, June 8: Ann Waring Latane of Mahockney marries Edward Andrew Jackson Clopton, who was born in Richmond in 1819 …

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