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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
For the first time since 1854, the Rappahannock River flows free from the Shenandoah Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic beyond, allowing the American shad and the blueback herring to spawn its length and increasing recreational activities and tourism in Rappahannock County and elsewhere in the state.
With the roar of 650 pounds of plastic explosives Monday, Army demolition experts blew a hole in the 94-year-old Embrey Dam at Fredericksburg, the latest in a series of dams that were built to provide power for factories long gone from the river’s banks.
From its headwaters in Rappahannock and Fauquier counties, kayakers and canoers will be able to paddle the river virtually undeterred to
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