Revolutionary War Historic Marker Dedication

An interpretive marker commemorating the march of Anthony Wayne and a thousand Pennsylvania troops through Frederick County in 1781 will be dedicated at a December 6, 2025 ceremony in Riverside Park on the Monocacy River. The ceremony is sponsored by the Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is being organized in partnership with the Frederick County U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.

Wayne and his troops left York Pennsylvania on May 26, 1781, and passed though Frederick County on their way to reinforce the troops under Lafayette’s command in Virginia who were attempting to hold back a much larger British invasion force under Cornwallis. When Wayne combined forces with Lafayette, this changed the course of the war in Virginia; Cornwallis turned back toward the seaboard, resulting in the American-French victory at Yorktown.

The interpretive marker to be dedicated, entitled “Revolutionary War Encampment,” has been made possible by a grant from the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, a certified heritage area of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority.