At the first meeting of the Historical Society Board,

At the first meeting of the Historical Society Board, held Friday evening at Avon Hall, several new plans were approved. Of the eleven research committees four will activate studies in the next month. Dr. Wm. Wake, chairman of Cemeteries, will call another field trip for all interested in the next few weeks. He will also mail forms requesting basic information to most of the owners of farms upon which cemeteries are located. It is hoped that these forms will be filled out as completely and as accurately as possible and returned promptly. A special form will be sent to all Churches and Schools with the hope that essential information can be gathered about the History of these basic institutions. The Chairman, Judge Rayner Snead will be glad for any help the Churches and Schools can supply in filling out the forms. An old 1864 Confederate map located in the U. S. Archives shows that sixty ope r a t in g mills were located in Rappahannock. The Hotchkiss maps of 1866 showed only thirtythree. With this new discovery of so many mills the Committee on Rappahannock Mills is spurred on to locate and identify them. To that end a field trip is being planned for early November. An outline for the first annual report was submitted to the Board and approved. A committee will be appointed soon to proceed with the collection and editing of the report. The Board voted to hold the anniversary meeting on February 8, the anniversary date of the founding of Rappahannock County instead of December fourteenth, the date the Town of Washington was founded. The next quarterly meeting will be on December tlSk-d, a Friday, at the Court House. A fine program will be presented, and it is'hoped that