Port Tobacco Camp
Location
8430 Commerce St.
Port Tobacco, MD 20677
Who?: French
Units: Rochambeau's aides-de-camp Barons Dubourg and Von Closen
Direction: South
Destination: Yorktown, Virginia
Date: September 14, 1781
Public Access: Yes
On September 14, 1781, Barons Closen and Cromot DuBourg stopped in Port Tobacco, Maryland. Von Closen described the town as, “situated at the foot of a hill, where there is a stream bordered by about twenty houses.”