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By Anita L. Sherman
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Many who are living in Rappahannock County may not be aware that the county is celebrating a birthday of sorts.
This Friday, February 8, marks the 175 year of Rappahannock County’s formal splitting from Culpeper County. When that act was passed by the General Assembly in Richmond, Rappahannock County was created as a new county separate from Culpeper County.
It’s not that Rappahannock as a county hadn’t existed before. In 1656, it split from the then Lancaster County. The first Rappahannock County lost its identity again in 1692 when it was divided into Richmond County in the north, and Essex County in the south. It was from Essex County that Culpeper County was eventually created in 1749.
According to documentation at the Rappahannock Historical Society, Rappahannock lay in the Northern Neck between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, and was named for a tribe of Indians who lived along the latter. The name, meaning “land of ebb and flow,” or as some historians say, “land of fast-flowing water,” came from the fact that the river was influenced by fKn firloc Irmn PKnearwiirn Dotr
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