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State Game Farm

New Kent County · 2.8 miles southeast of Providence Forge. · location approximate

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Established, 1920, for breeding partridges in captivity on a large scale. The first institution of the kind in the world. Game sanctuaries are stocked from this plant.

1948 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)

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