History at Dumfries
A tobacco warehouse was built here in 1730; the town was established in 1749 and became a noted port. In 1774 it elected one of the first Revolutionary committees of correspondence. Washington came to Dumfries frequently. On December 12, 1862, Wade Hampton here surprised a Union force, capturing some wagons; and, on December 27, 1862, J. E. B. Stuart had a skirmish with the Union troops holding the place.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.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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