Year Erected: 1996

Marker Text: In 1784, General George Matthews brought a number of Virginians and Carolinians, large tobacco planters, to settle this section. Dionysius Oliver laid out the town of Petersburg, on the site of the earlier settlement of Dartmouth, at the union of the Broad and Savannah Rivers, and built a large tobacco warehouse. Among the early settlers were Governor William Wyatt Bibb and Judge Charles Tait, who served together in the U.S. Senate (1813- 17), the Shackelfords and other prominent Huguenot families. Both Petersburg and the old road from Petersburg to Augusta are now under water.