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(Continued from Page 1) assurance from Mitchell and others in the audience that the designation would serve to enhance property values and increase tourism to the area.
In the document released earlier this month with the official designation, the Commission said, “Sperryville Historic District, Rappahannock County, survives as an upper Piedmont crossroads town that has been virtually unchanged since the 1920’s. Originally laid out by Francis Thornton, Jr., in ca. 1818 - 20 on a small plain between the Thornton River and the hills of the northern Blue Ridge, the village grew slowly until 1867 when the Smoot familv of Alexandria established a tannery on the Thornton River, thereby rapidly increasing the town’s population and resulting in construction of many of the simple wooden residences that today give Sperryville visual charm and architectu
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