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01/13/2016 6:30 AM by John M
Alec has a damn good question:
I am trying to find out if anyone knows what this pillar is on the corner of 26th and grace.
Street sign.
They’re all over Richmond. They were used to tie up horses back in the day.
http://hiddeninplainsightblog.com/2012/06/08/a-post-on-posts-or-hold-your-horses/
Marks the distance from that point to the Capitol buildings.
I think Juanito/#8 is on to something. It looks more like a mileage marker or a boundary marker than a hitching post – though I suppose it could still work for that, too.
I want to second that this is more of an old county line marker of sorts. Horse ties are usually smaller with metal rings and not at an intersection.
#7 Kap seems totally plausible. I have stones marking the boundary of my property that are flush with the ground, though they appear to be the exact same dimensions as the post pictured here.
Interesting article on Richmond’s mysterious stones… http://www.richmond.com/news/local/why-richmond-why/article_7e97d588-42f0-11e3-973c-001a4bcf6878.html
Ancient Astronaut wormhole marker…
Pretty confident that #19 is, without question, completely accurate.
Everybody relax. It is a bollard set up by a lot owner who was tired of the corner being run over by turning wagons. There is a cannon barrel used the same way down in Shockoe Slip. Not an oddly tall boundary stone, not aliens, not even Early American DPW. Just a piece of granite to keep traffic off the sidewalk.
It takes an actual historian to put the conspiracy theories rest.
Thanks, S!