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Claude Guinn, U.S. Army (Ret.), husband of a DAR member and avidly interested in the American Indians, spoke of the history of them in this area.
There were many villages in the Rappahannock, Culpeper and Madison county areas and the last fullblooded American Indian in Culpeper died in 1870.
About 8,000-10,000 years ago, they came to this area, probably entering this country across what is now the Bering Strait.
In 1830, the president, Andrew Jackson, signed a decree that all Indians would be moved west of the Mississippi River, costing over $100,000 to carry out this decree. Four Seminole Indians from Florida came to Washington, largely on foot, to try and get this decree changed, but to no avail, and their route is now known in this area as the Seminole Trail.
Of interest, too, is that 27 states have Indian names, so have many rivprs in this area, and that Indian
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