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Photo courtesy of Kaye Kohler
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Sixteen-year-old Andrew Kohler is working on an Eagle Scout Project. He is going to put a plaque and small flower garden around the rock that is located in the comer of Mt. Salem' Avenue near the Washington Baptist Church. This rock, through oral history, has been identified and confirmed to be an original "mile marker" for the county...perhaps the "zero" mile marker. Senior Research Historian Ann Miller from the Virginia Department of Transposition is will be in Washington on October 31 to speak to a small group of people who are interested in the history. She will be meeting County Administrator John McCarthy, Rappahannock Board of Supervisors Chairman Pete Estes, Andrew and others at 4 p.m. that afternoon. Miller is very excited about the project and has a wealth of information about these markers. Andrew is wondering if others in the county have seen such a stone on their property. The original US 211 ran on Fodderstack Rd. It is rumored that there is a person living on Fodderstack that thinks they may have one. The county confirms the existence of one other at this point. The historian has confirmed the existence of about three dozen in the State of Virginia. The dimensions of the rock are 12" by 13 1/2" with 20" above ground here and 20" also below ground. There are no engraving marks on it, but that was the norm.
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