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.
#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.
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.
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Old curbstone.
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@chpn I always assumed that was just an old bollard.
RT @chpn: What is this post? https://t.co/DCfmaO073J
Robert, we were wondering …
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This post is a post about a post.
Street sign.
Monolith
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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.
Its a grave site symbolizing the death of affordable rents in the city of Richmond.
Affordable rents anywhere!
@chpn Looks like an Very Old City Limits Marker kind of like the one at Maymont in the Bears Enclosure that has CL on it!
I asked my husband that same Q yesterday! I guessed it was a hitching-post?
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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.
Corner stone for the block. Signifying a neighbor boundry
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I always thought, since it’s at the top of the hill, that it had to be a big hitching post to stop carts from rolling downhill
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…
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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!