Memorial to Displaced Rappahannock County Residents
In honor of these Rappahannock County landowners, families, and others not yet identified who were displaced for the establishment of Shenandoah National Park, this memorial was dedicated in the Spring of 2017.
Armentrout Atkins Aylor Bailey Baker Baldwin Beaty Bennett Bolen Bowen Boyer Brown Broy Brumback Burke Burrill Campbell Carter Cheatham Clark Clater Clatterbuck Claytor Compton Cornell Cornwell Cox Crane Curtis Darnell Dodson Dwyer Estes Fincham Fletcher Fox Frazier Fry Gander Grove Harrell Hawkins Heiston Hershberger Hudson Huffman Jenkins Johnson Jolliffe Jones Judd Kelly Kendall Keyser Leach Majors Marlowe Menefee Miller Mundy Nethers Nicholson O'Bannon Overall Pomeroy Priest Pullen Ramey Rector Roberts Roy Rutherford Seal Settle Sisk Smith Spitler Stuart Swindler Taylor Varner Weakley
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Erected 2017 by The Rappahannock Committee, Blue Ridge Heritage Project; made possible by generous donations of time and money from descendants of time and money from descendants and friends of the project including Bill Fletcher and Russell Jenkins.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers.
Location. 38° 39.154′ N, 78° 16.085′ W. Marker is in Sperryville, Virginia, in Rappahannock County. It is on Lee Highway (Route 211) one mile west of Pearl Lane, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 11586 Lee Hwy, Sperryville VA 22740, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area and in Northern Virginia. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Cavalry Engagement (approx. 2 miles away); Sperryville (approx. 2.1 miles away); 21 Main Street (approx. 2.1 miles away); John B. Kiger (approx. 2.2 miles away); John Kiger's Second Lot (approx. 2.2 miles away); 31 Main Street (approx. 2.2 miles away); 33 Main Street (approx. 2.2 miles away); Medical Miracle (approx. 2.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Sperryville.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 18, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 18, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 720 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 18, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
