Many of us have thought for years that Hanging Rock was just off Route 28 between Romney and Springfield. However the Official Map of Hampshire County published by the West Virginia State Road Commission shows Hanging Rock is on Route 50, on top of North Mountain near the intersection of Route 11, about half way between Augusta and Capon Bridge. I know this was a surprise to Lonnie Watro, my brother-in-law and myself. Bill Pyles, Titusville, FL

I just always assumed that everyone had been talking about Hanging Rock on Rt. 50 in eastern Hampshire Co. (especially Lonny when she said she had been there and gone up to the place where the Rebels waited to ambush the Union troops); it is the only Hanging Rock, W.Va., on my Delorme Street Atlas software and the only Hanging Rock on the official Hampshire Co. map distributed by the Hampshire Co. CoC.. I have many ancestors from that general area, and one gg-grandfather had a farm in the Hanging Rock area. He and his family left the county and relocated in Allegany Co. in the early years of the Civil War, with his 3 adult sons serving the Union--one of them died in Andersonville, one was killed at Hanging Rock near his old family home, and one survived the war. Hanging Rock is about two-tenths mile east of the southern-bound intersection of State Rt. 29 on North River Mountain, and as you say, about half-way between Augusta and Capon Bridge. Question: Does anyone know where the bodies of the "Yankees" killed at Hanging Rock would have been buried, assuming that they were buried and not just left laying for wildlife to dispose of (not to mention of the potential spread of disease, etc.)? Would it have been right there? Elaine Bill Pyles wrote: > Many of us have thought for years that Hanging Rock was just off Route 28 > between Romney and Springfield. However the Official Map of Hampshire > County published by the West Virginia State Road Commission shows Hanging > Rock is on Route 50, on top of North Mountain near the intersection of Route > 11, about half way between Augusta and Capon Bridge. > > I know this was a surprise to Lonnie Watro, my brother-in-law and myself.