Swann's Point
Ten miles northeast is Swann's Point on James River. In 1635 William Swann patented land there. The English commissioners investigating Bacon's Rebellion met at Swann's Point in 1677. William Swann's tomb, dated 1680, is there.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.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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