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Fox girls, the t-oiien gins, uic Strong girls—all of them gone. We’d walk around town and Old Man Bagley (who lived at Avon Hall which was then located where the Rappahannock Clinic is now) would sit on his tront porch and call ’I don’t know where all of you girls are going to find husbands!’
But find them they did. In the early 1900s. the first macadam roads were being built in Rappahannock County with convict labor and mule teams. The convicts, who were camped just outside town had to be supervised and the pool of overseers provided the young ladies of Washington with a pool of prospective husbands.
“You’d be surprised how
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