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They’re pretty, they’re good for you, and their production may involve environmental concerns.
They are also heavily associated with the history of Rappahannock County. Because the trees like warm, light-filled days, and relatively cool nights in order to produce, apple orchards have a long association with the Blue Ridge, the Northern Shenandoah Valley and Rappahannock.
If one studies aerial photos and topographical maps of the County from the first half of the 20th Century, a characteristic, highly regular grid of dots (or tree tops) can easily be ' observed.
As the distribution and frequency of the dots might readily suggest, apple production in Rappahannock once ranked third in Virginia during the 1950s and 60s.
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