Point of Fork

Point of Fork is a Virginia historical marker in Fluvanna County, dedicated 1930.

Fluvanna County · dedicated 1930 · In Dixie, at east fork of James Madison Highway intersection with E. River Road

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Four miles southeast is Point of Fork, near which an Indian village stood in 1607. In the Revolution a state arsenal was there. In June, 1781, Simcoe, sent by Cornwallis with a small force to destroy the stores there, succeeded in making Baron Steuben, the American commander, believe the whole British army to be near. Steuben retreated, leaving the stores to be destroyed.

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