Kingsville Marker
5195 Farmville Rd, Farmville, VA 23901, USA
Virginia, USA
HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Kingsville Marker.
Here, before the Revolution, stood King's Tavern. The British cavalryman, Tarleton, raiding, camped here in 1781. In the same year sick and wounded French soldiers were brought to this place from Yorktown; seventy of them are buried here. Nearby is the site of the colonial church of which Archibald McRoberts was minister.
About Kingsville Marker
Kingsville represents Prince Edward County’s Revolutionary-era rural community. Local farms, roads, churches, and militia districts supplied Virginia with men, food, horses, taxes, and communication. No specific major battle or headquarters use at the village is firmly documented.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Kingsville Marker
Kingsville represents the rural world of Prince Edward County during the Revolutionary era. No major battle is known to have occurred at the village, but communities like this one formed the logistical foundation of Virginia's war effort. County courts, militia officers, church congregations, plantation households, small farmers, craftspeople, enslaved laborers, and wagoners all participated—voluntarily or under legal compulsion—in raising men, provisions, horses, money, and information.
Virginia's government repeatedly called upon counties to fill militia quotas and supply the Continental forces. Roads through the interior carried recruits and military stores while couriers connected local officials with Richmond and distant armies. The burdens were unevenly shared. Enslaved people produced much of the food and material wealth requisitioned for war, even as Patriot rhetoric proclaimed liberty; some sought freedom by joining British forces or escaping amid wartime disruption. Families also faced inflation, shortages, taxation, and the absence or death of men in service. Prince Edward County later lay within the wider theater of the 1781 Virginia campaign, when British and American forces maneuvered across the state before Yorktown. The marker therefore invites attention to the dispersed home front that sustained armies without becoming a famous battlefield.
Historic markers compress complicated events into a few lines, but the surrounding place encourages a broader reading. Roads, buildings, fields, and burial grounds changed over time, and the marker itself was generally installed long after the eighteenth century. The surviving landscape should therefore be used together with documentary evidence rather than treated as proof of every traditional claim. Reading the site closely means asking what is firmly recorded, what is a reasonable inference from the wider campaign or community, and what belongs to later remembrance.
The place also helps restore the scale and human variety of the Revolution across many different regions and communities. Its meaning emerges most clearly when visitors connect the immediate location to county, state, continental, and Atlantic developments unfolding around it. Even places without a battle could influence recruitment, supply, communication, political legitimacy, and remembrance. Famous commanders and legislators depended upon soldiers, sailors, laborers, craftspeople, farmers, women managing households, and people held in slavery. Native nations pursued their own political and military objectives rather than simply joining one European side or the other. War reached communities through requisitions, displacement, disease, disrupted trade, divided loyalties, and the circulation of news as well as through formal battles. Seen in that wider setting, this site is one point in an interconnected landscape of military movement, civil government, economic effort, and contested ideas of liberty.
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