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orchards, sometimes in combination with peaches.

Elisabeth and C. E. Johnson, Jr., tell us in their book: Fact, Fiction, Foolishness and Fairfax Story: Rappahannock County, Va., History, that shortly after the Civil War C. B. Wood, who owned a nursery here, sent a barrel of Albemarle Pippins to Queen Victoria, thus creating a market for Rappahannock apples in England.

Around the turn of the century, Sperryville businessman P. H. O’Bannon operated a general store in

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