The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, April 25, 1995                TAG: 9504250308
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   20 lines

MEMORIAL TO SLAVE IN ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY

ILLUSTRATION: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Virginia Military Institute cadets clean a canal lock along the Ben

Salem Wayside in Rockbridge County Sunday. The cleanup was a public

service project at VMI. The most ambitious part of the project is

being undertaken where the Maury and James rivers meet. Organizers

want to create Frank Padget Memorial Park for a slave who died in

1854 while saving 40 people in a boating accident.

by CNB