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What would it feel like to own five-million acres of virgin timberland? Lord Fairfax received such a grant from the King of England in the early 1700’s. A young surveyor named George Washington helped map the property and carve out huge estates between tidewater and the Blue Ridge. Part of the Fairfax Proprietary, as it was called then is now known as Rappahannock County, and many of the deeds on record today can be traced back to Lord Fairfax. The romance and history of the Fairfax Proprietary will be traced by C. E. "Ned” Johnson Jr. at a meeting sponsored by the Rappahannock Historical Society, beginning at 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 6th at the Rappahannock Library in Washington.
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