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Subject: Re: Blackburn's Ford - UPDATE
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:02:54 EDT

In a message dated 10/19/1999 1:51:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

<< hoping that someone could tell me a
little about a place in the area called Blackburn's Ford.

Exactly where is it? What river or stream? Who was it named after? >>

Lee,

Blackburn's Ford was located on Bull Run on land owned by Colonel Richard
Blackburn of Rippon Lodge near Occoquan, a native of Yorkshire, England. In
1854 land was sold to Wilmer McLean. (Reference: Bull Run Remembers by J.
M. Hanson, published 1953, page 96.)

Dick

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