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10 Years Ago
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1989
Herbert Foster is the patriarch to one of Rappahannock’s first families of farming. For years, he grew and sold apples at the Fosters Packing House on Route 522 between Flint Hill and Huntly, farmed, and raised beef cattle with his brother and two sons. His father before him was a Rappahannock County farmer. Earning his entire living from the land, Herbert Foster has been as committed to farming as anyone in the county, and as the Wakefield District representative for 20 years and a member of the Board of Supervisors which adopted Rappahannock’s first zoning and subdivision ordinances, he worked to ensure that farming could survive here. So his recent decision to sell the family’s 302 acre main farm raises new concerns on the future of farming in Rappahannock County. Sheriff John Henry Woodward said Tuesday that another suspicious fire was reported in Castleton Dec. 30. According to Sheriff Woodward, the field fire fit
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