VA-Z99 Gloucester County

Marker text: GLOUCESTER COUNTY

Area 223 Square Miles

Formed in 1651 from York, and named for Gloucester County, England. Bacon, the rebel, died in this county, 1676. Gloucester Point was the outpost of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928.

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Location: US 17, marker is in the median, at the Gloucester and Middlesex county line., Gloucester County, Virginia

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