Carroll 250 Event: Commemoration of Gen. Anthony Wayne’s Army Crossing of the Potomac
On June 1, 1781, after crossing the Potomac at Noland’s Ferry Gen. Anthony Wayne and about 1100 Pennsylvania Continental troops were 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 […]