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mini Blue Ridge copper rush (yep there’s (a small amount of ) ore in them there hills, aroused real estate interest in our vicinity. It was time to get serious about land titles. So another James Barbour (grandson of the one above) carried out what has been called the “Big Survey’’ or more accurately as there were several, the “Big Surveys” right here in our backyard. The terms are actually a huge misnomer as the total acreage involved in these latter ‘plots’ was under 100,000 (Fairfax, poor thing, only got 5,000,000+ with the Northern Neck)
The latter Barbour quickly turned some cash on the land, selling much of it to a Thomas Shirley of Madison County around 1800. Barbour used the wealth as a springboard to Virginia Governor, Senator, Secretary of War under John Quincy Adams, etc. etci (I know, so what, but there are actually two important footnotes in Barbour’s public life. He was a proponent of the ‘lost’ 13th amendment of the US Constitution, about which there will be more in some later article. And he was one of the sponsors of Robert E. Lee’s admission to West
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