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A photo of Peacocks Bridge on Route 58 near Stantonsburg and the historical marker placed beside it. Transcription reads: "Here Lt. Col. Tarleton's British dragoons and Colonel James Gorham's militia engaged in a skirmish, May, 1781." Reverse side reads: "(Erected in 1951) This was the second Historical Highway Marker erected in Wilson County (and the first of several requested by Hugh B. Johnston, Jr."