Green Spring
On this road, five miles south, is Green Spring, home of Governor Sir William Berkeley. Bacon, the Rebel, occupied it in 1676. Cornwallis, after moving from Williamsburg by this road on July 4, 1781, was attacked by Lafayette at Green Spring on July 6, 1781.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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