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Citizen efforts to team with Virginia’s
Department of Historic Resources to create a
record of its historic places is a further reflection of residents’ understanding of what Rappahannock County is, has been, and should be. In the face of extraordinary pressures from without, and even from some within, Rappahannock County has declared that it wishes to be different from its neighbors—that it wishes to preserve its beauty and serenity and thwart efforts to turn its gentle hills into development cul-de-sacs, and to scrape away its weathered barns to make room for carports.
No . . . Rappahannock’s citizens want better than that. They want to preserve the history that speaks from the slopes and hollows ... to honor the intrepid folk who hewed the timbers to shelter their families. To keep the night sky visible for all time, and to let the children and their children savor the views of the mountains that the old families stayed here to see.
The historic survey that will be continued after years of interruption will strengthen the objectives that most of us share. It will begin the process of recognition and preservation of homes and industrial buildings and barns that were built here before most of us took a first breath. It will provide the third leg and strengthen the tripod with which we honor our forefathers and the land and its creatures.
It will support the efforts to carry an ever more unique bit of countryside, untainted, through the decades and the centuries.
This grass-roots effort is more than a good start, and the hundreds who have supported and participated in it deserve thanks, hugs, and a pat on the back.
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