Confederate Camp and Freedman's Farm Trail - Montpelier Station VA
N 38° 13.728 W 078° 10.914
17S E 746674 N 4234956
Cross a wooden bridge while hiking through an old Confederate winter encampment.
Waymark Code: WM8NW8
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2010
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In 2005, Montpelier opened the Confederate Camp and Freedman's Farm Trail, an interpretive trail that leads through a former Confederate winter camp and to the Gilmore Cabin. The trail is 0.6 mile long and passes through the location of Gen. McGowan's hut encampment in the first months of 1863 during the Civil War and to the homesite of George Gilmore, a freed slave from Montpelier. (For more info and a trail map, click
here
.)
Along this trail is a wooden plank bridge that crosses a small stream. It is a easy hike that takes you through scenic and historic woods.