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an accurate map of the county seat in 1837, four years after the county was formed.
Since most of the unfortunate residents of the old Rappahannock pokey were those caught drunk in public. it is supposed that the fresh air and forced marching had a beneficial effect on their sobriety as well as their health. The convicts marched, at a set time each day. from the jail, in back of the courthouse and clerk’s ffice, in back of G. Thorn’s tavern on Gay Street, crossing Gay Street and proceeding to the old post office on one side of Main St. to Mrs. Coxe’s tavern on the other side. Westward they marched then, through the middle of the lots on Main Street, crossing over to Gay Street and marching on Gay to the end of town, turning at the old town well to go back to the jailhouse.
So that no prisoner would vary from this course by even a little, thereby receiving a more or less exercise than his fellow convicts, the commissioners measured out the line of march more precisely in their discription. given here in the clerk’s handwriting, along with the map.
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