Family Things To Do in Locust Grove, Virginia

This facility has three nine hole courses that are played in three eighteen hole combinations, as well as a par 4 warm-up hole. The Guinness Book of World Records certifies this facility's 841-yard... More on Golf.com

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Somerset Golf Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Locust Grove, Virginia. This medium-length layout plays quite long from the back tees. The course is rated somewhat highly difficul... More on TheGolfCourses.net

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This course features narrow fairways and greens. Water hazards come into play on a few holes, including #13, a 550-yard, par 5, which has a pond sitting halfway down the fairway, as well as a well-... More on Golf.com

Lake of the Woods Country Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Locust Grove, Virginia. This medium-length layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience.... More on TheGolfCourses.net

Inscription. As one of the few large open areas in the Wilderness, the broad fields north and east of Ellwood assumed instant importance during the battle here. While fighting raged a miles to the west, the fields around Ellwood filled ... More on HMDB

Working in partnership with Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, this organization helps to keep this Civil War Battlefield active and open for visitors. The Friends of Wilderness Battlefield was formed from a group ... More on Heritage

Inscription. The road trace in front of you is the Culpeper Mine Road, typical of the woods trails that composed the privative transportation network in the Wilderness. Even a path like this possessed military significance, and Confederate ... More on HMDB

Inscription. First Brigade First Division Fifth Corps, Number engaged 529, Casualties, 23 killed 118 wounded, 114 missing, May 5, 1864, , Location. 38° 19.049′ N, 77° 45.452′ W. Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Collision of Giants: By 1864 the war had become not just a clash of armies, but of ideas. To be resolved on the fields of Virginia and Georgia that year was not only the fate of the Union, but also the fate of Southern ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In front of you are the remains of trenches manned by the Union army on May 5-6, 1864. When Gordon attacked these works from the north, your left, the Federals abandoned them and fell back to a new position one mile to ... More on HMDB

Five years after losing his first wife in 1823, 78-year-old William Jones married his former spouse's 16-year-old grandniece, Lucinda Gordon. William and Lucinda produced a child, whom William prom... More on Nps.gov

Inscription. Ellwood stood in the midst of the Wilderness, a dark, forbidding forest characterized by stunted trees and densely tangled undergrowth. When the Confederates challenged General Ulysses... More on HMDB