>At 12:20 AM 6/07/2004, Linda Myers wrote: >>My records show Gabriel SAGER bought from Jacob FREED 150 acres on Elk Run >>being a branch of Stoney Creek, Shenandoah Co VA. >>However when I Google those names they don't seem to be in Shenandoah Co at >>all. Also there appears to be a town of Elk Run & also a town called >>Stoney Creek so I'm not sure where I should look for this land. >>My other VA ancestors HOTTELS & HAMMONS, I've already found & have >>previously visited the HOTTEL homestead in Shenandoah Co. Since my SAGER >>family married into the HAMMON family before moving on to Ohio, I'm guessing >>the land on Elk Run shouldn't be too far from Tom's Brook, VA >>Can someone more familiar with the areas geography point me in the right >>direction At 05:07 PM 6/07/2004, Walt wrote: Linda Regarding the town of Stoney Creek: I checked USGS GNIS (variant names checked) for feature = Stoney Creek and state = Virginia and got two hits in Shenandoah County: Stoney Creek Cemetery Stony (sic) Creek Church both of which it states are shown on the USGS 7.5' Orkney Springs map. _____ Other features with the name Stoney or Stony Creek: When I tried the spelling "Stony Creek" I got a number of hits including the variant names for Edinburg of: Eden Eden-Burg Edenburg Edenburgh Shryock and ... ta da ... Stony Creek That is, at some point in time, Edinburg was called Stony Creek. No doubt it was sometimes spelled Stoney Creek. Other hits in Shenandoah County show: Stony Creek (on the Edinburg map) Stony Creek Church of the Brethren (Orkney Springs map) Stony Creek Number Nine Dam (Orkney Springs map) Stony Creek Trail (Orkney Springs map) I get no hits on Elk Run in Shenandoah County but I do get hits in: Rockingham (Rockingham map) Fauquier (Midland map) [populated place also known as Elkrun and Elk Run Church] I also got hits for Elk Run in some counties slightly further away from Shenandoah County. That is they are probably the same stream but not of interest in this case. Walt

The link to USGS GNIS is: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnisprod Walt

I wrote to Linda with information that I found in O'Dell's book and which someone else may find usefull. O'Dell refers to Elk Run as now being Spring Hollow, which according to his maps is on the southern edge of Woodstock. Stoney Creek is just south of Spring Hollow. There are several references to these in his index. Ann