Pennington Gap, Virginia - Stone Face Rock with Nonoffensive Name
- Address:
- US Hwy 421, Pennington Gap, VA
- Directions:
- On US 421 just north of Pennington Gap. Pull off at Scalf's Stone Face Food Mart for a nice snapshot of the Food Mart sign with the Face behind it.
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Pennington Gap, Virginia - Stone Face Rock with Nonoffensive Name On US Hwy 421 just north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, is the Stone Face Rock. Somewhere around the mid-1970s the name was changed from the definitely un-PC "N*Head Rock." My grandmother still has a collector plate from the 60s with that name on it. Geologists have studied it to determine if it is natural or perhaps an Indian-made monument. It's become the landmark symbol of my hometown. In the 1980s a local girl wrote and recorded a song about the Stone Face that was played on local radio from time to time. As I remember, it was pretty bad. [Xrae, 02/28/2000]
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