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public streets. Foster wants to subdivide six acres from the Gentry tract in Flint Hill. The lot has only a 50 foot, right of way to a state road, far short of the 250 feet of road frontage called by the ordinance.
The mill serving Washington was located just east of the town on the Rush River and was named to the Virginia Historic Landmarks register in 1980. It ground out flour, meal and feed from the beginning until the end of the 19th century. It is reported to have served as a neutral bartering place between Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
Cattle from Washington’s Ginger Hill Angus Farm came away with top honors at the 1983 Virginia Angus Breeders annual show in Harrisonburg. Operated in partnership by J. Newbill Miller and sons Hodge and Brooke, Ginger Hill had one grand champion and two reserve champions among the 123 head exhibited at the breeders’ show.
Assistant park superintendent Bill Loftis says construction work is “right on schedule” on the first major rehabilitation of the Skyline Drive since it was constructed in the 1930’s. Work started on June 1 at the north entrance to the Matthews Arm campground and from there the crews have repaired and realigned the drainage pipes. No paving has started yet on the project which is expected to take about a year. While the repairs have been an occasional inconvenience to this year’s travelers, Loftis says
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