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My Rappahannock Story Book is tha romance of people of many diff :erent nationalities who found* ed and settled this county several centuries ago—and who, incidentally, made of it a great place in which to lire. The author tells the stories of the cavaliers from Tidewater who came to the section; of Francis Thornton . who built for his sons beautiful “Montpelier” and lovely old “Thornton Hill,” of Henry Miller, the Prussian officer who after being persecuted in his homeland came to Rappahannock to find his “haven of rest.”
Then, there are the accounts of the Gordons, noble Scottish clansmen, who. found the scenery comparable to that ef their be- loved highlands; at “Wakefield Manor” when t he Duchess ef Windsor <Wallis Warfield) often visited her cousin, Mrs. Basil Gordon. Also, the accounts of “Montpelier” in the F,T, Valley, where lived Caroline Homassel, wife of Dr. Philip Thornton. In her diary, which is reprinted in the book, she tells of her grandfather escaping from the Bastille, of her love for Alfred Madison, nephew of the President, and the dramatic eye-witness account of the burning of the old Richmond Theatre in 1811, and the saving of her life by Dr. Thornton whom she afterwards married.
Miss Hite’s book is divided into three parts. The first part con tains a valuable collection of pictures of old homes whose architecture is as varied as those who dwelt within them and who have added the “character lustre” to an historical book of this type. With each picture of the story of the home, ot the old mill, or the structure. ,
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