VA-C29 Colonial Road

Marker text: COLONIAL ROAD

This crossroad is the ancient Dumfries-Winchester highway. Over it William Fairfax accompanied George Washington, then a lad of sixteen, on his first visit to Lord Fairfax at Greenway Court. It was on this occasion that Washington assisted in surveying the Fairfax Grant.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928

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Location: VA Rt 615 at the US 29 junction, north of Warrenton., Fauquier County, Virginia

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