Port Conway, Virginia

Port Conway is an unincorporated community on the north side of the Rappahannock River in King George County, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, in the United States. It is opposite Port Royal, which is on the south side of the river in Caroline County.

James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway on March 16, 1751, at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose "Nellie" Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

On April 21, 1865, after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and his traveling companion David Herold, with Union cavalry in pursuit, crossed the Rappahannock here. The cavalry caught up with them at Garrett's Farm, south of Port Royal, where Herold surrendered and Booth was killed.

ee also

*Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Port Conway, Virginia)
* Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace American Viticultural Area.

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