Historic Port Conway
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Taluss
N 38° 14.103 W 077° 09.055
18S E 311749 N 4234082
The site of Port Conway on the Rappahannock River.
Waymark Code: WM4RTF
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/24/2008
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Historic Port Conway
The site of Port Conway is located five miles south on the Rappahannock River. Francis Conway laid out the town in 1783, and the next year the Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing it. James Madison, Father of the Constitution and fourth president and United States, was born at the Conway house on 16 March 1751. On 1 Sept. 1863 Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick’s Federal cavalry shelled two Union gunboats at Port Conway that had been captured by Confederates. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, fled across the river there on 24 Apr. 1865. Little remains of the town today.
Marker Number: J-66
Marker Title: Historic Port Conway
Marker Location: US Route 301 (southbound), south of VA Route 3 junction. King George County, Virginia
County or Independent City: King George County
Web Site: [Web Link]
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources 1999
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