BOLIVAR SHEILD PLAQUE

In memory of

Bolivar Sheild

Clerk of Court, York County, Virginia

1848 to 1868 who saved all York County

records dating from 1633 to 1862 by

taking them to the Mattaponi River

and keeping them in an ice house until the end of the war.

Erected by the Yorktown Branch

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities – 1936

(2011 – placed in new courthouse)