Buckhorn Quarters
One mile north was
the estate of Major Thomas Ridley. In the
servile insurrection of August, 1831, the
houses were fortified by faithful slaves
and made a place of refuge for fugitive whites.
In this vicinity Nat Turner, the leader of
the insurrection, spent the night after
his defeat near Courtland, August 23, 1831.
Marker is on Southampton Pkwy (U.S. 58) near Buckhorn Quarter Road, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
