Colonel John Banister
One mile to the south is the site of Hatcher's Run Plantation and the grave site of Col. John Banister (D. 1787), first mayor of Petersburg and prosperous entrepreneur. Banister represented Dinwiddie County in the House of Burgesses (1765-1775) and the conventions of 1775 and 1776. He was a member of the Continental Congress, a framer and signer of the Articles of Confederation, and a cavalry officer during the Revolution.
Marker is on Cox Road (U.S. 460) 0.8 miles east of Tranquility Lane, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
