Historic Routes

An old roadbed here began as a path made by American Indians traveling between villages and their hunting and fishing grounds along tidewater creeks. European settlers widened it into a roadway known as the Potomac Path to carry tobacco and passengers to the port of Dumfries. During the Revolutionary War, American and French troops marched along it on their way south to Yorktown, and in the Civil War Confederates attacked Union picket lines along the road. Stagecoaches also carried passengers to and from Dumfries, and this section of road was abandoned in the 1930s.

Dumfries, Virginia · United States