Historical Highway Markers

Battle of McDowell

W-150

Stonewall Jackson, to prevent a junction of Fremont and Banks, took position on the hills just to the south and beat off the attacks of Fremont's advance under Milroy, May 8, 1862. Milroy retreated that night.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928

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