1955 Letter from Ernest Flender of New York City to Charles H. Huffman , President of the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia. " My sister Hanna Flender of Siegen sent me a clipping from Siegener Zeitung quoting your letter of Dec. 4th to the evangelische Kirchengemeinde Siegen.....The information given in your letter about the 13 families who arrived in Virginia in 1714 was new to me." [ Mr Huffman had sent a Greeting Message that was read at the reconsecration of the Saint Nicolai Church in Siegen on 16 Dec.,1954 . Saint Nicolai where many of the 1714 Germanna immigrants were baptized , had been destroyed during World War II .Huffman told of the granite marker errected at Germanna and dedicated to the memory of the 1714 colony from Germany ] " .......Would you please tell me where the monument in honor of the first settlers from Nassau- Siegen is located ? Sometime in the spring I expect to be in Virginia...... and I would like to take a picture of it for the magazine issued by the Siegerlaender Heimatsverin"....... In 1955, Mr. Flender came to Virginia , met with Mr. Huffman and other members of the Germanna Foundation to discuss " future prospects for Germanna development".He gave the Foundation $1000.00 to be used to purchase real estate. >From minutes of a Special Meeting of the Germanna Foundation 12 June 1956..... Mr E.W. Flender ( now a Foundation member) moved that a certain tract of land in Orange Co. known as the Myers Tract be purchased...at the price.. namely $10,000.00....Seconded .by T . W. Fishbach Dr. J. W. Wayland moved that the Trustees of the Germanna Foundation accept the very generous gift offer of Mr. E. Flender to give the Foundation a certificate of one hundred shares of oil stock , each share having a market value of #160.00.... Source:" The First Decade 1956- 1966.." Charles Herbert Huffman, President " Germanna Record # 9" 1966 Nancy M. Dodge **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)