Thorn Hill Estate
Home of Colonel John Bowyer, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and of General E. F. Paxton, commander of the Stonewall Brigade, killed at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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