Colonel Thomas Stegge, Jr.

This tablet is dedicated

to the memory of

Colonel Thomas Stegge, Jr.

proprietor of

the Falls Plantation, 1659-70

first land-patentee permanently

to reside at the falls of James River;

uncle and benefactor of William

Byrd I., whose son in 1737 caused

the town site of Richmond

to be surveyed.

Erected by ...