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debates going on in the state arethorny now. Did you know that we were once part of Culpeper County? And did you know that" one of the reasons for our secession had to do with the issue of roads? Apparently at the time we were looking for more roads.' I’m not sure if the sentimentr would be the same today in the community. *
We became Rappahannock" County in 1833. But even today Amissville crosses county lines’ and you’ll find Amissville addresses in Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier Counties. !
We were a pretty small village in 1833. One of the structures in place then and still around now is the Methodist church that was built on land' donated by Joseph Bayse. He may not have gotten his name on the town but he still managed to leave a legacy!
We got our first post office in 1810. I’d wager that our current’ post office is bigger, better and* has greatly improved on mail delivery. •'
I learned in my search that1 one of the oldest cabins in’ Rappahannock County is just down the road from me on South Poes. The Dever cabin,’ now owned by the Tapp family, was most recently home to a tenant farmer by the name of Thomas Williams. Mr. Williams lived there for almost 50 years before passing away a couple of years ago.
If you Google Amissville you’ll come up with about 157,000 hits. They seem to all refer to Amissville, VA with the exception of one reference to* some kind of video game that doesn’t appear to have gotten very favorable reviews! I couldn’t immediately discern any connection between the game and our community. We do show up' in Wikipedia, however. :•<
History in a small community like ours is more often oral, real stories, rather than books with titles like “The History of Amissville” or “Amissville in the 1700s”. Stories are passed from person to person and sometimes they get recorded and sometimes they are lost and we are all the poorer for it.
If you’ve got stories about our community, let me know! Let’s get them in writing before any more of our history gets lost.
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