Loudoun County / Fairfax County

Historical marker location:

46990 Harry Byrd Hwy, Sterling, Virginia

( Marker is on Harry Byrd Highway [Leesburg Pike] (Virginia Route 7) west of Dranesville Road (Virginia Route 228), in the median.)

Marker installed: 1934

Virginia was home to some of the earliest organized resistance to British rule, with the formation of the Sons of Liberty in the mid-1760s.