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By Jan LaValley
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Sperryville Historic Committee has been working diligently toward getting a historic marker for Sperryville to mark the historic district.
On Dec. 3, the Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved the new historical highway marker for Sperryville along with one for Ellerslie in Washington, Va.
The Sperryville marker will have the following information on it. “Laid out by Francis Thornton Jr., in 1817, Sperryville survives as an upper Piedmont crossroads village. In the early 19th century John Kiger built Conestoga wagons here. By the 1850s two turnpikes (Thornton’s Gap and Sperryville & Rappahannock) intersected here. In 1867, the Smoot family, of Alexandria, built a nearby tannery that closed in 1911. By that time, the town boasted four churches, five general stores, one hotel, six mills, numerous shops, a Masonic hall and a population of 350., Sperryville’s wooden residences and visual charm have long made it a familiar
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