Ancient Highway
The road to the south is the road from Dumfries, on the Potomac, to the Shenandoah Valley. It was traveled in March, 1748, by George Washington, then a lad of sixteen, on his way to Greenway Court to survey Lord Fairfax's land beyond the Blue Ridge.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.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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