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By DAI’HNK HUTCHINSON

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This holiday season, a book on county history by two newcomers to the literary scene is sure to be THE gift exchanged by Rappahannockians.

Written by Ned and Elisabeth Johnson, “Rappahannock County, Fact, Fiction, Foolishness and the Fairfax Story” begins with the land grants awarded by Lord Fairfax to early settlers of the Blue Ridge foothills.

It includes page after page of historical data unearthed in three years of painstaking research and fact Finding expeditions that took the couple to Richmond, Charlottesville, Spotsylvania, Warren, Page, Rockingham and Madison counties and down countless back roads winding into Rap

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