Fauquier County will soon have a new, state-sponsored historical marker honoring Gen. Anthony Wayne’s Rappahannock Crossing during the American Revolution. Fauquier County will soon have a new, state-sponsored historical marker honoring Gen. Anthony Wayne’s Rappahannock Crossing during the American Revolution. The new marker, to be placed at Sumerduck and Normans Ford roads, was approved by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources Dec. 11. “Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne, commanding 1,000 infantrymen of the Pennsylvania Line and a Continental artillery unit, moved south from Pennsylvania late in the spring of 1781 to reinforce the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia,” the marker reads. “On 8 June, Wayne’s troops crossed the Rappahannock River at Norman’s Ford, one mile southwest of here, and entered Culpeper County. They joined Lafayette south of Raccoon Ford in Orange County on 10 June. “The combined force numbering about 4,000 men moved toward Charlottesville to deter British Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis’s raids on military stores. The troops then followed Cornwallis as his army marched eastward and greatly contributed to his surrender at Yorktown on 19 Oct.” The Culpeper Minutemen Ch
