Civil War battles and skirmishes on the birth place of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart in Ararat, Va., which is about 6 miles outside of Mount Airy. The annual event takes place the first Saturday and Sunday in October.

Laurel Hill is located in the southwestern part of Patrick County on the dividing line between the piedmont and the mountains and within sight of the boundary line of North Carolina and Virginia. The seventy-five acre site, owned by the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, is open to the public dawn to dusk for self-guided walking tours and annual events including a Revolutionary War encampment in the spring, and a Civil War encampment in the fall.

Laurel Hill is five miles from Mount Airy, NC and twenty-five miles from Stuart, VA.

From Mount Airy take Riverside Drive (Highway 104) North back out of town ("Highway" is a designator given this road by the states...it is actually a two-lane mountain road with plenty of traffic and curves, so be careful!). Cross the State Line into Virginia. Ararat Highway (Highway 773). Laurel Hill is about a mile ahead, on the left.