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Mrs. Fannon, who has owned the Laurel Mills Store since 1988, and several of her neighbors have retained Arcadia through the Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance, at the suggestion of Hal Hunter, a member of the Planning Commission Committee on historic districts.
Hunter said that Arcdia will seek out all the historic data as it can, review and photograph the structures, and prepare a formal proposal.
According to Hunter, the designation is only made twice a year, and this could mean a ceremony in Laurel Mills might be as late as 2005.
Amanda Stephens, who with her husband Gary Light bought and restored the home of the Laurel Mill owner, thinks that Laurel Mills is aptly suited for historic remembrance.
The village is virtually untouched by time, she noted, adding that the homes that remain were standing there when die mill was active.
Their home, a 9,000 square foot Victorian built in 1896, was constructed by William Smith, a wealthy sheep farmer and part owner of the Rappahannock Woolen Company.
“It supposedly had ghosts, and we welcome them,” she laughed.
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