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Dedication of the New Fairfax Stone, Oct. 5, 1957.

Dedication Ceremonies of the Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, W. Va.

Description:

Mr. D. D. Brown and Elizabeth Carol Kemper, queen of the Forest Festival. Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, West Virginia. Gulley leading from the stone is head spring of the Potomac. The stone is located at the corner of the West Virginia/Maryland boundary 3 miles off U. S. Route 219 between Thomas, West Virginia and Red House, Maryland. The inscription of the bronze plaque embedded in stone written by Dr. D.D. Lambert. State Conservation replaced Fairfax Stone with approximately $2,000.00 appropriated by 1955-1957 legislature. $1,500.00 was from 1955 while $500.00 was from 1957.

Queen Silvia XXI
Queen Silvia XXI – 1957
Elizabeth Carol Kemper
Bluefield, WV.

Dedication Ceremonies of the Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, W. Va., West Virginia History OnView, West Virginia University, West Virginia & Regional History Center.

Queen Silvia XXI, Mountain State Forest Festival, Past Queens.

See also: Rededication For Fairfax Stone Held, The Republican, Oakland Maryland, Vol. 81, No. 32, October 10, 1957, page 6. (PDF )

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