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Related Historical Markers
Each are markers commemorating the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe.
By Dawn Bowen, July 22, 2007
Marker on Spotswood Trail (US 33)
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | On 5 Sept. 1716, in this region, it is believed, Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood and his party of government officials, gentry, Native Americans, soldiers, and servants crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley. Their . . . — — Map (db m1842) HM |
| | In honor of Governor Alexander Spotswood and the Knights of the Horseshoe:
John Fontaine •
Robert Beverley •
William Robertson •
Dr. Robinson Todd •
James Taylor •
Robert Brooke •
George Mason •
Captain Smith •
Jeremiah Clouder
and other . . . — — Map (db m1844) HM |
| | Twelve men I chose to see the waiting land,
Where the rivers are jeweled in sunlight,
And the hills are a deep blue ocean with living spars
Of pine to catch the clouds and spread white sail.
My band, Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe,
. . . — — Map (db m1874) HM |
| | Near here Governor Alexander Spotswood and his troop of gentlemen, Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, on their way to explore the land beyond the mountains, camped on August 31, 1716. — — Map (db m4705) HM |
| | Here Governor Alexander Spotswood established a colony of Germans in 1714. At that time the Rapidan River was the frontier of Virginia. On August 29, 1716, Spotswood left from this place with the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe on his exploring . . . — — Map (db m171387) HM |
| | This is the ancient Woodford Estate. Governor Spotswood and the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe stopped here on their way to the mountains, August, 1716. Here General William Woodford was born, October 6, 1734. He defeated Governor Lord Dunmore at . . . — — Map (db m22577) HM |
May. 2, 2024
