Historical Highway Markers

The Marquis Road

W-206

Lafayette reopened this road in June, 1781, when moving south to intervene between Cornwallis and military stores in Albemarle County. The road has ever since been known as "The Marquis Road."

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928

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