Robinson's Tavern

Robinson's Tavern is a Virginia historical marker in Orange County, dedicated 1929.

Orange County · dedicated 1929 · Rte. 20, at Locust Grove.

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Near here stood ancient Robinson's Tavern. Here Meade wished to concentrate his army in the Mine Run Campaign, November, 1863, but one corps, coming up late, disarranged his plans. Here Ewell, moving east from Orange in the Wilderness Campaign, camped on May 4, 1864.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

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