VA-D26 Fort Breckenridge

Marker text: FORT BRECKENRIDGE

Three miles west at the mouth of Falling Spring Creek was a post garrisoned by militia under Capt. Robert Breckenridge. Washington inspected it in 1756. It survived an attack by Shawnees under Cornstalk during Pontiac's War in 1763.

Virginia State Library, 1961

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Location: US 220 (northbound), north of Falling Spring Falls., Allegheny County, Virginia

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