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mi^ht have been turned into moonshine in some isolated incidents. For cash, farmers drove a calf or lamb to h ront Royal. Another source of cash was gathering "shumate", the wild sumac berries bought for red dye. Williams thinks that a man named Rudasill in Front Royal was the sumac buyer for the area.
f or a time, there was a blacksmith located there, appropriately named Smith, and he set up his forge wherever he was needed.
A post office was established in the community in H*f>l in the store near the present post office. A man named Merritt (Ireeley was the first postmaster for the town.
During the first World War, some Chester (lap people found employment at the “remount station", the mule and horse breeding center for the army north down the mountain in Warren County.
At the entrance to ( hester (lap on the Rappahannock side, visitors can see where the Rappahannock first rises, truly just a trickle right behind the dumpsters at the base of the settlement. Chester (lap is one of the collection points for the Rappahannock and the elevation never allowed for eiiomrh water newer for «
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