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Juliellen 01/13/2016 at 8:18 AM

Street sign.

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Kap 01/13/2016 at 8:36 AM

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/

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Juanito 01/13/2016 at 8:39 AM

Marks the distance from that point to the Capitol buildings.

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Lee 01/13/2016 at 9:28 AM

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.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 01/13/2016 at 11:59 AM

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.

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JB 01/13/2016 at 12:19 PM

#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.

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Deanna 01/13/2016 at 7:11 PM Reply
Michael Nesossis 01/13/2016 at 8:14 PM

Ancient Astronaut wormhole marker…

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Caleb 01/14/2016 at 5:53 PM

Pretty confident that #19 is, without question, completely accurate.

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Right on Broad 01/19/2016 at 5:03 PM

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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Melinda 01/20/2016 at 8:04 AM

It takes an actual historian to put the conspiracy theories rest.
Thanks, S!

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