History at Halifax
A part of Greene's army was here in February, 1781, just after Cornwallis's pursuit. Here Washington stopped, June 4, 1791, in his tour of the Southern States. Here John Randolph of Roanoke in 1827 made one of his great speeches. Here General Custer camped in April, 1865.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.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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