Lawson's Hill

Here follows an excerpt from Donald Hakenson's "This Forgotten Land" tour guide:

On November 4, 1820 William Lawson bought two tracts of land from James H. Hooe's trustees. Hooe had owned Burgundy at that time. In 1844, William Lawson left to his daughters, Jane Ann, Priscilla, and Mary Elizabeth twnety-one acres of land bounded on the North by McFarlan, on the east by Pike Run, on the south by the highway running from Telegraph Road, and on the west by Frobel. In October 1852, William Simms bought the land where the church stands from the Lawson daughters. However, the locals continued to call the area "Lawson's Hill."

In the winter of 1861 and 1862, the Third and Fourth Maine Regiments and the Thirty-eighth and Fortieth New York Volunteer Infantry regiment were spread out on the surrounding acreage. Brigadier General John Sedgwick or "Uncle John" established his headquarters at Lawson's Hill and called it "Camp Knox." Sedgwick would later obtain the rank of Major General, but would lose his life from a snipers bullet at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 9, 1864. "They couldn't hit an elephant from that distance," were his last recorded words before taking a bullet right between the eyes.