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Sibray visits Youngs Monument

David Sibray visits Young's Monument, raised to the memory of Henry Young, shot and killed by Union soldiers on remote Powell Mountain.

David Sibray visits Young's Monument, raised to the memory of Henry Young, shot and killed by Union soldiers on remote Powell Mountain.

Young's Monument appears on a 1914 map of roads in Nicholas County.

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