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Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties.”
The asterisk above refers to a footnote [corrected] telling where the three spans went. “One was moved to Page County, Route 654 (since replaced); another to the Caroline-Hanover line, Route 603 (since replaced); and the third to the Madison-Greene County line, Route 230 (since replaced). One of these was again moved to the last remaining span’s present location.”
It is likely we got the Page County span because the Caroline-Hanover span, Route 603, seems too far away for a subsequent move to Rappahannock County; and the MadisonGreene spam, Route 230, was put in place in 1941, possibly across Middle River in Greene County, too recent for a second move.
The span that went to Page County was erected across the Hawksbill Creek along Route 654 at Samdy. Hook, just east of where a 1908 truss bridge stood. But it was washed off its abutments in the great rainstorm of October 12-16, 1942, which caused the worst flooding in Page Valley since 1870. Luckily, the span was relatively undamaged. In a phone interview, Jack Cullers, currently the owner of property nearby, remembers as an eight year-old child the 1882 bridge sitting in the water for some time. It apparently was finally taken apart, carried over the mountain, and put together again as Tapp’s Ford Bridge.
Certainly the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors
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