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same time, also number five in the Commonwealth; now there’s a true fifth of fifths (and a story for another day).
Though there were at least 90 water-powered mills in county in the 1840s, none was into processing all the shearing from the wooly denizens baahing merrily on the hillsides. This changed sometime around midcentury or perhaps a little later, when Joseph Schwartz moved from Frederick, Maryland to Rappahannock County. A native of Germany, Schwartz was an expert on dyeing wool. He opened the South Fork Woolen Factory on the Thornton River near Sperryville, later known simply as the Schwartz Factory when operated by Joseph’s son, John. This homegrown ‘dyed-in-thewool’ business ran successfully until 1891...then fire struck.
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