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
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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