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These markers all commemorate the 10 May 1781 artillery action and its landmarks, including Oak Hill.
 
By Craig Swain, November 22, 2008
Lafayette At Petersburg Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► Virginia, Colonial Heights, South Chesterfield — S-26 — Lafayette At Petersburg —
From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg. — — Map (db m270355) HM
2 ► Virginia, Colonial Heights — Lafayette's Headquarters —
Headquarters of General Lafayette 1781 — — Map (db m176627) HM WM
3 ► Virginia, Colonial Heights — Historic Box Hedge —
Three centuries old on Oak Hill, also called Archer's or Hector's or Dunn's Hill. Tradition says gaps show emplacements of Lafayette's guns in 1781 when British occupied Petersburg. — — Map (db m271075) HM
4 ► Virginia, Colonial Heights — Oak Hill —
First land patent by J. [Illegible] 1638. Home of Jerman Baker, Esq., 1777, friend of Thos. Jefferson. House rebuilt in 1825 by Thos. Dunn. Virginia Historic Landmark National Reg. of Historic Places — — Map (db m271077) HM
 
 
  
 
 
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