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With the death of William and his father Andrew in 1869, the Barbee’s were essentially out of the road business. Son Herbert, who had worked with his father in Florence, picked up the family chisel finishing some of William’s work including one, The Star of The West, that won first prize in the World Exposition of 1892. Working from a studio in Hamburg, west of Luray beside the Turnpike that his family had so influenced, Herbert also created some notable sculptures of his own. Among these are the Confederate monuments in Luray Warrenton, and very likely, the one in Rappahannock County. There are actually two such monuments in Luray — Herbert’s is in the East Luray Shopping Center.
Herbert also created a memorial bust of his father that sat next to the road at Panorama for a number of years and apparently planned a matching tribute to his mother to be located on the side of Mary’s Rock. The latter was never completed and, possibly fearing vandalism, the bust was removed from its prominent display by descendants in for safekeeping.
Tbday only an old Virginia Historical Marker at Panorama commemorates the Barbee’s long role in this well-known, lofty edge of Rappahannock. It’s sad there is not a lot more, for in so many ways, this family really ‘rocked’ 2m important part of our past!
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