Historical Highway Markers

Sleepy Hole Ferry

K-256

Three miles east. Benedict Arnold, returning from his Richmond raid, crossed the river there, January 16, 1781; Cornwallis, going to Portsmouth, crossed there in July, 1781.

Virginia Conservation Commission, 1948

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