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Enter Cornelius Smith and the Rappahannock Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This insurer, the oldest company in the county, covered the loss of the factory. However John Schwartz was likely up in years so made no move to rebuild the South Fork operation. Smith, a board member of the insurance company and a longtime resident of Laurel Mills, knew an opportunity when he saw it.His family owned a flour mill on western side of the Thornton River at Laurel Mills and, in one of those eureka moments, Cornelius thought; why not convert the business into a wool-processing extravaganza? Convert it he did and in several years, the newly remodeled Rappahannock Woolen Mills were generating large amounts of high quality of the
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