To Gwynn's Island

To Gwynn's Island is a Virginia historical marker in Gloucester County, dedicated 1928.

Gloucester County · dedicated 1928 · Business Rte. 17, at Rte. 3/14

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Two miles east is Toddsbury, home of the Todd family, built in 1722. Farther east, in Mathews County, are the old homes, Green Plains, Auburn, and Midlothian. Some miles beyond them is Gwynn's Island, where General Andrew Lewis drove the last royal governor, Lord Dunmore, from Virginia soil, July, 1776.

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