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Fairfax Stone

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The Fairfax Stone, one-half mile east, marks the headwaters of the Potomac and was a corner of Lord Fairfax's vast estate. The line of 1736 was checked in 1746 by a survey on which Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson, was engaged.
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