Historical Highway Markers

Burke's Station Raid

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Burke's Station, four miles south, was raided by Stuart's cavalry, December, 1862. Stuart telegraphed to Washington complaining of the bad quality of the mules he had captured--a famous joke.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1937

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