For a bit of clarification: The Tubal Germanna site is the furnace site on Pipe Dam Run between the Chancellorsville Battlefield and a bend in the Rappahannock River (approx. 38.330408 N, 77.611340 W according to Google Earth). The site of the furnace and dam are in the stream valley just above where Spottswood Furnace Road crosses. The first Germanna settlement and Tubal blockhouse are on a promontory east of the run and on the Rappahannock side of a gas (?) pipeline right-of-way. This is quite far removed from the later Germanna settlement on the Rapidan (about 4.1 miles as the crow flies), 7.6 miles from Fredericksburg, and 13.7 miles from the forge site on Massapponax Creek. ________________________________ 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 ---- Original message ---- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:37:26 -0500 From: Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Tubal Germanna To: [log in to unmask] >He indicated it was a small parking lot by the river [maybe for >boaters or fishermen?] so maybe it wasn't the furnace, but it was >something and he seemed happy that it was protected under the layer >of asphalt. Yes, it's still pretty rural, but new shopping areas are >creeping in, and housing. > >Nancy > >------- >I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. > >--Daniel Boone > > > >On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Lyle E. Browning wrote: > >> 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 >> >>> >>> Nancy >>> >>> -------