George Rogers Clark Memorial (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

 American Revolutionary War 1775-1783, interesting place

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George Rogers Clark was born in 1752 in Albemarle County. When he was five, his parents, John and Ann Clark, moved to a family farm in Caroline County where they lived for twenty-five years before moving to Kentucky. George Rogers Clark was trained as a surveyor and at the age of twenty left home to explore Kentucky and the Ohio River area. During the Revolution Clark rose to the rank of General in the Virginia militia.

A stone with a bronze tablet is erected on Washington Avenue to George Rogers Clark, explorer and conqueror of the Northwest Territory. It is inscribed: "In grateful acknowledgement of the valor and the strategic victory of General George Rogers Clark, son of old Virginia, the Paul Revere Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Muncie, Indiana, devote this tablet. No hero of the American Revolution served with more sacrifice, fortitude, and dauntless courage, and no hero has accomplished greater victories against greater odds. The Northwest owes its freedom from the British tyranny to this distinguished patriot and soldier. Dedicated April, 1929."