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IN SIGNING the document, Grimvvood said, “This provides for help in carrying out a program of soil and water conservation which was developed by a local unit of government and which will remain under local direction. This is a good example of democracy at work.”
The five counties have an area of about 1,500 square miles, of which more than one-half is in farms. The population of the district is approximately 53,400. In 1969 there were 2,001 farms in the counties and 226,466 acres was in cropland.
The directors of Culpeper SWCD are Chairman Henretty, Vice-Chairman, Overton S. Weaver, Raymond Kite, Robert Anderson, H.S. Barksdale, Joe P. McMurran, Melvin Nace, Col. John Skelton, Jim Grove, L.W. Kipps, Harold Estes, and E.C. Compton, The District office is in Culpeper.□
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