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] ******************** "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