Carroll 250 Event: 244th Anniversary of Wayne’s Crossing, Noland’s Ferry Sponsored by the Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)

On May 31, 1781, Gen. Anthony Wayne and about 1100 Pennsylvania Continental troops marched through Frederick passing by the Hessian Barracks and Burgoyne’s Convention Army prisoners jailed there. They crossed the Potomac River at Noland’s Ferry and into Virginia, on their way to join forces with Gen. Lafayette, who was resisting Lord Cornwallis’s campaign of destruction and depredation in central Virginia. The crossing was perilous and they lost four men when a boat capsized in the surging river after recent heavy rains. Today, this march is seen as part of the Yorktown Campaign which resulted in the British surrender in October 1781. Sponsored by the Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR).