{"id":6822,"date":"2025-06-30T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:04:53","slug":"new-anthony-wayne-historic-marker-dedicated-in-lucketts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/new-anthony-wayne-historic-marker-dedicated-in-lucketts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Anthony Wayne Historic Marker Dedicated in Lucketts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new \u2013 and more accurate \u2013 historical marker for \u201cWayne\u2019s Crossing\u201d on the Potomac was dedicated on June 1 at Lucketts Community Park on Route 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1931 Marker<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Marker<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The marker commemorates the crossing of the Potomac River by Gen. Anthony Wayne and about a thousand Continental troops on May 31, 1781, on their way to reinforce Lafayette in central Virginia.Lafayette\u2019s and Wayne\u2019s combined forces turned the tide of the war in Virginia, inducing Cornwallis to return to Yorktown \u2013 and although they didn\u2019t know at the time how that would end up, we now do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old marker was installed in 1931, the 150th<\/sup>Anniversary of Wayne\u2019s Crossing. According to the Historic Marker Data Base, it was originally erected near the Maryland State line, at the river crossing.  That explains why the old marker says that Noland\u2019s Ferry is \u201cthree miles southeast\u201d of the sign\u2019s location, whereas it is about 3\u00bd miles northeast from the marker\u2019s current location in Lucketts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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John Laycock and Barry Schwoerer, with Mark Sink in background, at Lucketts ceremony. (photo: Matthew Earnest)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The revision of the sign\u2019s text was undertaken by the Sgt. Major John Champe Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), as part of an effort of a Wayne\u2019s March Task Force consisting of SAR representatives from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, who are committing to completing the marking of Wayne\u2019s line of march from York, Pennsylvania, to his rendezvous with Lafayette near Charlottesville, Virginia. Two additional historic markers are planned for Loudoun County, at encampment sites near the Chapel Above Goose Creek north of Leesburg, and the site of the old Cox\u2019s Mill, now known as Evergreen Mills, south of Leesburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The keynote speaker at the dedication was John Laycock, of the Westminster MD SAR, who heads the SAR Task Force. Laycock described how we are fortunate to have about half a dozen diaries or journals, which give a day-by-day summary of troops\u2019 march from Pennsylvania to Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Edward Kopsick (right)of the SAR in York PA describes the beginning of Wayne’s March, at podium with Michael Moore. (photo: Matthew Earnest)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

On May 31, another \u201cWayne\u2019s Crossing\u201d ceremony was held on the other side of the Potomac, at Noland\u2019s Ferry on the C&O Canal. A wayside marker is scheduled to be erected near there, on MD Route 28, this fall.  Also in the works is an interpretive marker north of  Frederick, at Riverside Park along the Monocacy River, near the site where Wayne\u2019s Continentals encamped on the nights of May 29 and 30, prior to passing through Fredericktown on the way to the crossing at Noland\u2019s Ferry.  These markers are being sponsored by the Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter of the SAR.
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Wreath presentations at Nolands Ferry (photo: Matthew Earnest)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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