On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Sunshine49 wrote:
> When I was recently out there doing some look-ups, the man at the
> library said something, I think it was the furnace, was now under a
> small paved parking lot near the river, and so protected. I think
> it is on land that is preserved, not open to development. Look it
> up and send them an email.
I fervently hope it wasn't the furnace as it sticks out of a hillside
and would have to have been flattened for that to happen. I'm sure it
wasn't the furnace as it's beside a stream up against a hill and as
it's entirely rural, there's no parking lot needed.
Lyle Browning, RPA
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> Nancy
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> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
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> --Daniel Boone
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> On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Hardin, David wrote:
>
>> Lyle,
>>
>> Do you know if Spottswood's Tubal Germanna site is
>> protected by the State or Spotsylvania County? I
>> know Mary Washington was working on the Enchanted
>> Castle, but I can't recall anything ever being
>> mentioned about the furnace site, the Tubal
>> blockhouse, or the first German settlement. I read
>> some of the materials published by the Memorial
>> Foundation of the Germanna Colonies from the early
>> 60s that indicated they had identifies some of the
>> most important structures (they even planted a
>> cherry tree on the blockhouse foundation - sigh).
>> Development is fast expanding out that way and the
>> blockhouse site has great views, so it will be a
>> tempting pize for a developer.
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Dr. David S. Hardin
>> Assistant Professor of Geography
>> Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
>> Longwood University
>> Farmville, Virginia 23909
>> Phone: (434) 395-2581
>> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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>> "For as Geography without History
>> seemeth a carkasse without motion,
>> so History without Geography
>> wandreth as a Vagrant without a
>> certaine habitation."
>> John Smith, 1627
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