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The park beside the Fairfax Stone is a clearing at the end of a road with a few picnic tables. Fairfax Stone Historical Monument, part of a four-acre West Virginia state park, is six miles north of Thomas, West Virginia. The site is sparsely developed, lacking any buildings or restroom facilities.
Fairy Stone State Park, located in Patrick County, Virginia, is the largest of the original six state parks that opened on June 15, 1936, and is home to the mysterious "fairy stones", or staurolite. The stone, prevalent in the region, may have the St. Andrew's or Roman shape.
Smith Mountain Lake State Park: Huddleston: 1,248 acres (5.05 km 2) 1967 Open Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park: Big Stone Gap: 1.5 acres (0.0061 km 2) 1943 Open Staunton River State Park: Scottsburg: 2,336 acres (9.45 km 2) 1939 Open Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Randolph: 300 acres (1.2 km 2) 1955 Open Sweet Run State Park
There are seven camping areas spread along 12 miles (19 km) of the New River and Bluestone Lake. All together, these sites provide 330 primitive campsites: [8] Bertha – 55 lakefront sites; Bull Falls – 15 lakefront sites; Cedar Branch – 45 riverside sites; Indian Mills – 15 sites; Keatley – 15 sites; Mouth of Indian Creek – 94 ...
Prior to some recent changes by Bmpowell this article was called Fairfax Stone but had an infobox that described the state park that enclosed the Stone. It was moved to Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park but no details about the park were added. I put in a placeholder for the standard subsections used by many of the articles in the ...
Fairystone Farms Wildlife Management Area is a 5,321-acre (21.53 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Patrick and Henry counties, Virginia.Named for the fairy stones that are common in the area, it comprises several parcels surrounding much of Fairy Stone State Park and the Philpott Reservoir in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The lake was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), as authorized by the Flood Control Act of October 23, 1962 (Public Law 87-874) and is described in House Document No. 469, 87th United States Congress, second session.
The Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park is a Virginia museum, run as a state park, dedicated to preserving the history of the southwestern part of the commonwealth. It is located in Big Stone Gap, in a house built in the 1880s for former Virginia Attorney General, Rufus A. Ayers. It was designed and built by Charles A. Johnson.