Here was Moomaw's Landing, on the North River Canal. In May 1863 the packet Marshall passed here bearing the body of General Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson to Lexington. Mrs. Robert E. Lee used the canal in 1865 to join her husband at Washington …
On 18 Dec. 1742, the first known clash betweenIndians and colonial settlers in RockbridgeCounty took place near the mouth of theMaury River. Iroquois en route south fromPennsylvania encountered pioneers led byCapt. John McDowell. Although accounts…