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Histories &
Mysteries
Judy and John Tole
evrgreenl@earthlink.net
clysmic and quite literally earth shattering, in the long march of time.
Green Mountain
granite
The granite mass that appeared almost overnight in the Wilderness of Spotsylvania records one such event, one that shook the earth of its day just as certainly as the volcanoes that once spewed forth the lava that became the wonderfully curious green stone of the Blue Ridge. Several hundred yards away cars repeatedly halt for an instant at the four-way stop sign at intersection of the Brock and Orange Plank Roads, about a mile south and east of that testament to modem life, the Sheetz station on Route 3 about halfway between Culpeper and Fredericksburg. For the most part, occupants of those vehicles are now, and forever will be, oblivious to the great, transplanted stone sitting nearby. Too bad! The lives of each of them and of all of us were influenced by events at this confluence of roads and in the forest that surrounds this enormous rock.
Future wanderers who take the time to park at the crossroads and follow a dirt path through what are now third or fourth growth woods will encounter a magnificent rendition of Camel’s Hump, a predominant feature of Vermont’s Green Mountains. The miniature ‘Hump’ crowns the top of the 40,000 pounds of granite carved from those same moun
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