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Accokeek Iron Furnace Marker
Aquia Church Marker
Aquia Creek Marker
Aquia Landing Marker
Austin Run Pyrite Mine Marker
Belmont Marker
Cavalry Affairs Marker
Chatham Marker
Civil War Observation Balloon Site
Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2363 Marker
Cotton Warehouse
Counting House
Falmouth Railroad Station Marker
Ferry Farm Marker
Fredericksburg Campaign Marker
From Indian Path to Highway Marker
Gateway to Freedom Marker
Gen. Hooker's Headquarters Marker
Gold Mining in Stafford County Marker
Golgotha Church
Government Island Marker
Hartwood Presbyterian Church Marker
Historic Falmouth Marker
Hobby School Marker
Hunter's Iron Works Marker
Kidnapping of Pocahontas Marker
Lincoln Review Marker
Little Falls Marker
Magistrate’s Office Marker
Marlborough Marker
Moncure Daniel Conway Marker
Monument to Religious Freedom Marker
Mt Olive Baptist Church Marker
Mud March Marker
Olympians Marker
Palmer Hayden Marker
Patawomeck Indian Museum (Duff Green House)
Patawomeck Tribe Village Marker
Patowomeck People at Belle Plains Marker
Peyton's Ordinary
Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers
Shelton’s Cottage Marker
Stafford Civil War Park
Stafford County Armed Services Memorial
Stafford County Tri-Centennial Marker
Stafford Courthouse
Stafford Training School
Union Church
White Oak Museum Marker
White Oak Primitive Baptist Church
Widewater Peninsula Marker

Austin Run Pyrite Mine Marker

Marker inscription:

Pyrite, an important source of sulfuric acid, was discovered in Stafford in 1902. Mining commenced near Smith Reservoir in 1903 but soon moved south to Garrisonville Road in what is now Hampton Oaks subdivision. The main shaft was 650 feet deep. In 1909, a narrow gauge railroad opened to carry ore to coal landing for shipment. Plagued by financial troubles, the mine closed c. 1926.