Gloucester County / Mathews County
(Obverse)
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.
(Reverse)
Mathews County
Area 94 Square Miles
Formed in 1790 from Gloucester, and named for Colonel Thomas Mathews, Revolutionary soldier. Gwynn's Island, from which Dunmore was driven in 1776, is here.
Marker is on Dutton Road (Virginia Route 198) 0.1 miles west of Holland Point Road, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
