Goodwin Neck

York County · dedicated 1989 · Rte. 173, 0.3 miles west of Stillwater Lane

This area, locally known as Dandy, was part of the land granted to John Chew July 6, 1636, and was sold by his heirs to James Goodwin, a member of the House of Burgesses from Jamestown, August 27, 1668. The area was strategically important both to British General Charles Cornwallis and to Confederate General John B. Magruder, who erected earth redoubts at the heads of several creeks on Goodwin Neck.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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