The Retreat
Posted by: 
flyingmoose
N 39° 07.389 W 077° 53.291
18S E 250319 N 4334415
Located right off of Westbound route 7 at the last intersection before crossing the river. There is some growth near the marker but might get trimmed from time to time. Parking is safe, but there is no scenic factor here. This one also seems to not be in any online database.
Waymark Code: WMEBK
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2006
Views: 18
One and a half miles north is The Retreat, home to three distinguished generations of the Parker family. Thomas Parker, a general in the War of 1812, constructed this imposing Federal-style house in 1799. Richard Parker, his nephew, was a U.S. senator, justice of the state Supreme Court of Appeals, and jury member at the trial of Aaron Burr. His son, Richard Elliot Parker, served in the U.S. House of Representatives and presided as a federal judge at the trial of John Brown. During the Civil War, the Battle of Cool Spring was fought near The Retreat on 18 July 1864.
