When Richard Brewster, gentleman, patented some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as "the great Neck alias the barren neck". Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back.

Marker can be reached from Colonial National Historic Parkway 0.6 miles north of Virginia Route 199, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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