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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: February 16, 2008
Caption: The "Compass" at Stop Eight
Additional Description: At several locations in the Central Virginia Battlefields, bronze pointers such as this one indicate the locations related points of interest. Here Parker's Store (along the Orange Plank Road) is indicated as 3.2 miles southwest. Spotsylvania Court House is 9.5 miles to the southeast. Culpeper Court House is 20 miles to the northwest. Orange Court House is 23 miles west. Richmond is 58 miles almost due south. And Washington, D.C. is 58 miles northeast.
Submitted: May 1, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p22823
File Size: 1.634 Megabytes

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