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To the Editor:
Once again Rappahannock News reporting is off in its very own unimaginative and erroneous little world. Reference the article on the John W. Miller House, several errors were noted. The document provided to Lou Hatter was the work of independent consultants which I hired and was submitted to the Department of the Interior through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, i.e. references such as “according to the department’s historians” are incorrect. The barn mentioned dates from 1925 and not the same era as the ice house and summer kitchen/servant quarters (1840) as stated in the article. The “I” form and the central passage relate to the same, not separate, characteristic. Furthermore Miller did not construct the Slate Mills Plant, he took it over from previous owners.
With the lack of attention to detail Hatter combined the lack of effort to put the facts in more readable form. He simply lifted verbatim excerpts which were in essence technical descriptions from the document, this was combined with a failure to delve into the personal side of the history of the Miller property, for example - John N. Miller and O.D. Miller served with Mosby’s Rangers or the last of the Millers laid to rest in the family cemetary was Mary Virginia Miller (1868-1963) who might have been known to some News readers.
An overabundance of quotes from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources contributed little or nothing.
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