Doncastle’s/Byrd’s/Burnt Ordinary

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Location

Intersection of Forge Rd. & Richmond Rd.
Toano, VA 23168

Direction:  north

Fox’s, Burnt Ordinary received its name in 1780 when Fox’s Ordinary burned to the ground. Later, in Oct. 1781, when the French army’s wagon train passed by, Berthier wrote that “two old chimneys stood here in the fork of the road’.