GDG- Belle Plain

[fred johanson]

So much for new, easy to read monitor with old bifocals.  That's Belle 
Grove.  There's a Belle Plains Rd that run from McCarthy's Corner on White 
Oak Rd, NE to the Potomac, but no settlement shown.


At 02:53 PM 2/1/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
><<It's where 301 crosses the Rappahanock.>>
>
>Fred,
>
>         That is the wrong direction.  301 crosses the R. ESE of 
> Fredericksburg, and
>at a further distance.  BP was on Potomac Creek.
>
>Tom
>
>-
>At 02:12 PM 2/1/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> >Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >
> >I do not find Belle Plain, Va. on current maps.  It served as a Union
> >cavalry base during the CW.  In the OR Atlas, Plate VIII it is located
>about
> >8 or 9 miles ENE of Fredericksburg on Potomac Creek.  Does anyone know
> >whether it still exists, perhaps under a different name?  There does not
> >appear to be a town in that location on Virginia road maps.
> >
> >Tom Ryan
> >
> >
>V
>
> 
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Fred Johanson
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