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black history of the village which has often been ignored.
He told the story of the Hitt family that owned a planning mill in Sperryville. Mr. Russell shared how, as a boy, he used to peer through the white picket fence as the gasoline engine that powered the milling machines was started. He said the noise from the machinery could be heard from one end of Sperryville to the other. The Hitt family business used the machines to finish lumber for floors and cabinets, make wagon wheels and caskets, and they also had a burial service with horse-drawn carriages. The Hitt family purchased the business from, the Kiger family who, at that same location in Sperryville, had been the builders of Conestoga Wagons that traveled as far
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