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Newleys Cross Road, 30 residents, “several dwellings, 2 stores (not listed in property book) and several tanyards and flour mills within a radius of six miles.
Gaines Crosa Roads, 9 dwellings, a store (John Deatherage), tailor, blacksmith and was the only settlement in the county recorded in the Gazetteer as having a denominational church — Baptist. This was possibly Battle Run church.
For some reason the Gazetteer does not mention the other towns but from the tax rolls it is known that the following other merchants were licensed in 1834!
Amiasville, A. R. Singleton and James R. Nelson; Chester Gap', James G. Wallers; Hackley Cross Roads, Birket Hackley; Slata Mills, Nicol and Miller and Sperryville, Tutt and Mason. The quiet and properous period from 1833 to 1861 was shattered by the Civil War. While there werd minor incidences in the county during the war there was no engagements, the nearest bein^ the battle Front Royal, In which many Confederate soldiers from Rappahannock participated. But the war and the turbulent times in the county thereafter were of other years and another story.
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