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was supposed 10 nave oeen postmaster. But the Borkowskis believe they may have found an important reason for this discrepancy.
“We checked two other postmasters provided by the Archives—J. H. Britton and E. W. Burgess,” Borkowski said. “We know they owned land here because each lived at one time in the Cardinal Antiques building, and were on the deed at the time they were postmasters. So we wondered: If a man operated the post office in his home as was the custom, then it’s entirely possible that he was not taxed. This has proven true of one of the postmasters in our building and we’re checking on the other.”
This kind of historical research is painstaking and tedious but it sometimes has surprising rewards. When the Borkowskis heard that the site of The House of Dried Flowers was once used as the Thorton Gap Post Office, they called up their friend Hugh Chrisman to see if he had any information that might help them in their search.
Mr. Chrisman moved to Rappahannock in 1973 and •lives in the building as well as running the dried flower business. Chrisman
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