Battle of Cricket Hill
On the shore here General Andrew Lewis, commanding the Virginia forces, erected a battery facing a stockaded camp on Gwynn's Island established by Governor Lord Dunmore, July, 1776. The fire from this point, Cricket Hill, damaged the camp and the British ships and forced the evacuation of the island. A little later Dunmore put out to sea.
Marker is at the intersection of Cricket Hill Road (Virginia Route 223) and Mill Point Road (Virginia Route 669), on the right when traveling north on Cricket Hill Road.
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