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42 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2,1961
When Mr. Rufus Williams of Chester Gap went to the spring for water on Jan. 27, he found a garter snake lying in the snow near the spring. After he killed the snake, he measured it. It was 30 inches in length and about an inch in diameter.
According to the most reliable records, the one room country school house, situated at the north end of Long Mountain and known as “Mt. Salem School” is the first of its kind built in Rappahannock County. It is just a short distance from “Old Mt. Salem Church” and is said to have been built after the “Holtzman Private School”, which was in the same community as the church, was closed.
Day after tomorrow, Feb. 4— one hundred years ago, Feb. 4, 1861, one of Rappahannock’s most loyal citizens was in Washington, D.C. at the old Willard Hotel to meet with representatives of 21 states to try and find a way to “resolve the differences between the North and the South and avert war.” The Peace Convention lasted 23 days.
A delegate to that convention, Horatio Gates Moffett, of “Glenwood,” which is about a mile and a half from the town of Washington, Va., had gotten up early on Feb. 3, had traveled to Calverton, Va. by horse and buggy where he took the train to Washington, D.C.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1,1973
Front page photo description: Mrs. James F. Massie of Amissville, who is in charge of trophies for the annual Rappahannock Point-to-Point races, holds one of the cups which will be awarded for the new brush race to be introduced on the March 3 race card. Viewing the trophies, which are given by Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Durant II of Boston, Va., are Judge R. V. Snead of Washington and Mrs. James P. Jamieson and J. W. Fletcher of Sperryville. The 25th running of the Rappahannock
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