Fences and Livestock
Jamestown had a large number of four-footed and feathered residents. A chronicler wrote of “two hundred … cattle, as many goats, infinite hogs in herds all over the woods.” The government required fences to keep the free-roaming livestock out of the edible harvest.
Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
