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scratching around we did to get all this stuff,” Ned confided.
Woodville was once the biggest town in Rappahannock County with 137 lots, more even than Washington, according to Elisabeth. The town was named after a widely respected and much loved Episcopal minister, the Rev. John Woodville. It even had streets laid out, all named after trees, possibly, in Rev. Woodville’s honor.
The town had five stores, a public park where the cemetery is today and a Temperance Hall, the site of concerts and plays. "It was the center of culture in Rappahannock County," Elisabeth noted.
When the county instituted compulsory education in the late 1800s, teachers were among the best paid professionals in Rappahannock. "They got a good salary for those days — $20 to $30 a month. And they had to get there early in the morning to sweep out the school house and start the fires,” reported Ned.
He began on another story, this one about the Rappahannock boy who was with Eisenhower during the historic meeting between Russian and American forces at the end of World War II.
“Now don’t talk too much!” Elisabeth interupted. “If you tell everything for the newspaper article, no one will have to read our book.”
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