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August 4th marks the 216th anniversary of the surveying of the Town of Washington according to information on the Town Marker on Cay Street. To commemmorate this the Town Council invites all citizens and friends to a Town meeting at the Library at 8 p.m. (afterwards you will have plenty of time to attend the^ firewords display in Flint Hill Research information for this marker was compiled by the late F. Clyde Baggarly and published in a pamphlet entitled “The History of the Town of Washington, VirginiaJ The First of them All.* “Landon published, what he represents to be a verified copy of the survey made, by Washington of the Barnes land in the County of Culpeper, and also referred to the plat of the survey as published by) Sparks. In connection therewith he makes particular reference to an entry in Washington’s handwriting pre served with his miscellaneous papers, in which Washington after referring to the Richard Barnes survey as having been made on the 22nd day of July, 1749, continued his field record as follows: “On the second day thereafter, accompanied by John Lonem and Edward Corder, I journey-i ed one half day in a north
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