The Magazine
[Top Inscription on Marker]
Dedicated to those militiamen who were
buried in the magazine and the surrounding battlefield
on OCTOBER 11, 1774
Col. Charles Lewis, Col. John Field, Capt. Thomas Buford,
Cpt. Robert McClenachan, Capt. John Murray, Cpt. James Ward,
Capt. Samuel Wilson, Lt. Hugh Allen, Lt. Charles Cameron,
Lt. Edward Goldman, Lt. David Laird, Lt. William McCutcheon,
Lt. Samuel Vance, Ens. Samuel Baker, Ens. Matthew Bracken,
Ens. Jonathan Cundiff, George Cameron, Samuel Corley,
James Crolwey, John Dinwiddie, Joseph Hughes,
James Mooney, Hugh O'Guillion,Jerrard Trotter,
Marck Williams, John Frogg, Sutler
and
the unknown
[Bottom Inscription on Marker]
"The Magazine"
Used for the storage of gun powder, food, grain, etc.
After the battle it was used to entomb the body of
Col. Charles Lewis and others who died in the battle.
Marker is on Main Street 0.1 miles from 1st Street, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
