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Celebrated Civil War documents signed by Robert E. Lee up for sale
According to historical data forwarded by the collector, who asked not be identified, “copies were then made for transmittal to corps commanders and other members of the army staff, each dutifully...
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The golden era of Black Baseball in Rappahannock County
Virtually every Virginia community from Tidewater to the Blue Ridge had at least one black baseball team between 1930 and 1970, each carrying the banner of their respective communities. Little...
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Petticoat Rule: When women governed the Town of Washington
Dorothy Hawkins, now 93 years young, made history in 1950 when she became part of an all female Washington Town Council. America similarly took notice of the town’s government and the press went wild....
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Searching for a family’s final resting place
As I got closer, I could see the wrought iron fence enclosing a small private cemetery full of large gravestones. I ran east, through the gate, toward the closest monument to read the name on the...
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New book reveals rare photos, lore of Rappahannock African American families
Arguably the most staggering statistic contained in the soon-to-be-published book, “Images of America: African Americans in Culpeper, Orange, Madison, and Rappahannock Counties,” is the fact that...
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100 years ago: Rappahannock County men in World War I
Rappahannock historian Don Audette continues to chronicle the county's participation in the "Great War" [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
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Rappahannock’s annual Martin Luther King Jr., celebration ‘gets better’ every...
Neither the bone chilling cold or New Orleans Saints could keep people away from the stirring “28th Annual Rappahannock County Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance” Sunday evening at the...
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The night John Fitzhugh was hanged in Rappahannock County
State legislators pass resolutions regretting Virginia lynchings. Outlining a “dark and shameful chapter of American history,” state legislators in Richmond this week unanimously passed resolutions to...
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Saluting Rappahannock Black History Month
Rappahannock native Edward Homer Bailey Sr., was born on Sept. 12, 1909 to Edward and Lovace Maggie Brown Bailey. On Dec. 28, 1931 he married Ethel V. Timbers, daughter of Henry and Josie Fitzhugh...
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Against almost insurmountable odds, Tuskegee Airman Howard Lee Baugh flies...
Virginia native Howard Lee Baugh lived a long life — albeit barely enough to receive long-overdue thanks from his country. Two months after the Tuskegee Airman addressed an audience in Rappahannock...
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Lyndon B. Johnson no stranger here
My mother Sarah Latham, then editor of the Rappahannock News, went to Alexandria earlier in the morning so she could make the trip to Culpeper with the Johnsons. Sister Nancy and I, high school...
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Can’t escape the Thorntons
From Thornton Gap to Thornton River to F.T. (Francis Thornton) Valley Road and beyond, there were six Francis Thorntons associated with the county between 1731 and 1840, one of whom laid out...
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Rappahannock County officials pledged not to fight in bloody duels
No deadly dueling oaths required into 20th century: Imagine feuding members of the Washington Town Council, Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors or even the School Board stepping outside and...
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Horrendous evil, amazing grace
Arye Ephrath and his family’s amazing story of Holocaust survival: You could have heard a pin drop Sunday afternoon in the Washington Town Hall, where the soft-spoken Arye Ephrath, at the invitation of...
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100 Years Ago | Rappahannock County men participate in the Meuse-Argonne...
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the greatest American battle in World War One. [...] » Read the full story at RappNews.com
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Historical highway marker going up at former Washington Rosenwald School
School for African Americans closed when county schools were desegregated: Eight new historical highway markers have been authorized by the Commonwealth of Virginia — one of which will be erected on...
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Far Out! In Rappahannock
There were different ‘tribes’ among 200 hippies in Rappahannock: An attentive crowd gathered at the Rapp at Home office at the Washington Schoolhouse to learn about a curious slice of Rappahannock...
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Scrabble School could become part of national historical park
Efforts to establish a national historical park in the name of Julius Rosenwald is “huge news,” reacts Nan Butler Roberts, President of the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation in Rappahannock...
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When tragedy came calling to Old Hollow
When Gary Noesner’s phone rang in the middle of the night on April 9, 1988, telling him to hightail it to rural Sperryville, Virginia, the FBI hostage negotiator didn’t need a road map. As he recalls...
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100 Years Ago | Rappahannock County men participate in the Meuse-Argonne...
By the time the 318th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Infantry Division, with men from Rappahannock County, was relieved of frontline combat on October 7, 1918, it had lost almost one-third of its...
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