Sandy Point & Cherry Hall CC8
Originally home to the Paspahegh Indians, Sandy Point was settled in 1617 as Smith’s Hundred and after 1619 known as Southampton Hundred. St. Mary’s Church was established here prior to the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. During the Revolutionary War local militia units were encamped on the James River. Prominent area homes have included Tettington and Tomahund, seats of the Lightfoot family, Byrdwood and The Rowe. Landmarks have included the Trees Point and Old Field and schools at Banbury Farm (est. 1878) and Renwood (est. 1910). A ferry crossed the James from Sandy Point until 1942, and nearby Barrett’s Ferry crossed the Chickahominy River until 1939. A store at Sandy Point wharf stood until ca. 1955. Inland from the James River during the 1800s, the cross-roads community that developed near Cherry Hall Plantation included Graves’ Shop and Rural Shades Academy. Nearby stood the first Lower Church of Westover Parish (ca. 1735-1805) and Jersualem Church (est. 1877). The store of W. T. Haynes served this community

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Greenway Historic District B38
This 30-square-mile scenic landscape illustrates the evolution of a unique rural community. Unlike the rest of the Shenandoah Valley, where mostly Scotch-Irish and German immigrants settled on small farms, Virginia Tidewater gentry occupied most of this district. These families brought with them their wealth and a slave-based economy, which they employed to build and maintain large plantations. Significant residents include Thomas Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the Northern Neck; Nathaniel Burwell, grandson of Robert King Carter; Gen. Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary War her; and William Meade, third Episcopal Bishop of Virginia

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Elk Run Anglican Church Site B39
Settlers began moving into this region of Fauquier County in the early 1700s. By the 1740s, a wooden church structure served Anglican communicants in Elk Run. It provided pastoral care as well as secular administration for this active frontier community. The first permanent minister, the Reverand James Keith, grandfather of Chief Justice John Marshall, served this church from the 1740s until his death in 1752. A brick cruciform structure replaced the first church by the late 1750s. After the Revolutionary War and disestablishment, many churches were abandoned. By 1811 the Elk Run Church had fallen into disuse and ruin.

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Betty Washington F12
Two miles south is the grave of Betty Washington Lewis, the younger sister of George Washington. She was born in Westmoreland County in 1733 and married Fielding Lewis in May 1750, becoming his second wife. Her husband purchased land in 1752 and built their house, Kenmore, outside Fredericksburg. They had eleven children together, but only five sons and one daughter lived to adulthood. During the Revolutionary War, Fielding Lewis served in the army as a colonel and supervised a gun factory. Betty Washington died on 31 March 1797 while visiting her daughter Betty Lewis Carter in Culpeper County.

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Lee-Fendall House E93
Light Horse Harry Lee, Revolutionary War office owned this land in 1784. The house was built in 1785 by Philip Fendall, a Lee relative. Renovated in 1850 in the Greek Revivial style, the house remained in the Lee family until 1903. John L. Lewis, labor leader and president of the United Mine Workers of America and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was the last resident owner from 1937 to 1969.

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First Settler's Grave W159
One mile north is the grave of John Lewis, first settler in this region, who came here in 1732 and died in 1762. He chose the site of the town of Staunton. His four sons, Thomas, Andrew, William and Charles, took an important part the Indian and Revolutionary Wars.

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Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery K135
Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery Nearby are buried several prominent area settlers and their descendants. Col. William Callaway in 1755 one of the first two members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Bedford County donated the hundred acres of land on which the town of New London was built. His son Col. James Callaway served as county lieutenant commander in chief of the Bedford County militia during the Revolutionary War. James Callaway’s son-in-law James Steptoe was a close personal friend of Thomas Jefferson and served for 54 years as the first clerk of Bedford County. Steptoe’s home Federal Hill stands nearby.

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Greenfield D30
Half a mile west stood Greenfield, the home of Col. William Preston. According to local tradition Stephen Rentfroe constructed a fort there in the 1740’s. In 1750, Preston bought the property from Rentfroe and soon built a house that evolved into a large log-and-frame, L-shaped dwelling; a portico supported by two-story columns sheltered the front. Preston became a prominent frontier military leader during the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1765-1771). Greenfield, later the home of Gov. James P. Preston burned in 1959. Dept of Historical Resources 1999

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New Store Village F61
Four miles west is the site of New Store Village, in early times an important stop on the stage coach road between Richmond and Lynchburg. Philip Watkins McKinney, Governor of Virginia 1890-1894, was born here in 1832. Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War Hero, grew to maturity at nearby hunting towers, home of Judge Anthony Winston, an uncle of Patrick Henry. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, 1974.

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Origin of Lynch Law L30
During the Revolutionary War, loyalists in the Virginia backcountry periodically conspired against the Revolutionary authorities. Colonels Charles Lynch, James Callaway, and other militia officers and county justices formed extralegal courts to punish them, which were not strictly warranted by law. Lynch’s Law, of lynching, as such punishment has been called, did not at first include hanging. According to local tradition, accused loyalists were tied to a large black walnut tree here at Lynch’s home, Green Level, and whipped, not hanged. In contrast to the lynchings that began the next century, legally appointed officials meted out Lynch’s Law mostly with fines and jail terms. Later, the Virginia General Assembly passed acts protecting Lynch and his associates from prosecution for their activities.

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