Fairy Stones (Staurolite)

Interview with Don Hopkins, the curator of the Mountain Crosses Museum, Horsepasture, Virginia.

Links related to Fairy Stones (staurolite -- Iron Aluminum Silicate Hydroxide) and the regions:

Fairy Stone State Park

Staurolite Structure (Fairy Stones)

Longstreet Highroad Guide to the North Carolina Mountains by Lynda McDaniel (Standard Tale of Fairy Stones - a good story if it can be proven that it is pre-Columbian. The Cherokee seems to have had limited knowledge of Christianity before the arrival of the European-Americans.)

Patrick County Chamber of Commerce

Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce