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1920s-1940s
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt talked to the country in his first radio Fireside Chat on the banking crisis on March 12, 1933: “I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”
Newbill Miller recalls that the Rappahannock National Bank stayed open during the Depression except for the few days the Federal Reserve required all banks to close. “It was not bankrupt at all. It was solvent during the Depression.”
During this time county funds were used to help care for paupers and the poor at wtyat was called the Poor Farm, which' housed and fed the needy. The farm was trying to be self supporting with residents doing the labor as much as possible. The Board of Supervisors took a personal interest in helping those on the farm.
This agricultural county was hit in 1930 with another blow. It was the year of the worst drought in history with virtually no rain the second half of the
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