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“Saint Peter don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store”
16 Tbns, Merle Travis
So far as we know, no Buffalo roamed in Rappahannock County in the 1840s. The ‘tonka’ were all apparently at mid-continent waiting for Kevin Costner. But it may perhaps surprise the reader to learn that sheep picked up the slack on hoofed beasts rather handsomely. Just imagine, seven years after it split off from Culpeper, Rapp was fifth in wool output in the state with over 26,000 pounds produced. Wheat, rye, and com were the other big cash crops. And speaking of fifths, so as not to let all that rye go to waste, local distilleries cooked up 7,700 gallons of spirits at the
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