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Are you trying to find a historical house on your copy of the Scheel’s map of Rappahannock County? But you’re totally frustrated because of all the tiny little words on the map? You know that the house is just east of Flint Hill ... “Dam! Where is it!!
Well, for the hundreds of people who have purchased the Scheel’s map from the Rappahannock Historical Society, this frustration is no more. The Society has just published an index to the map.
Indeed, there are LOTS of tiny little words — 3,485 to be exact. On dark cold nights during the winter. Society volunteer Maureen Harris methodically divided the map into 96 rectangular grids and listed each entry in each grid by name and category — home, store, church, post office, graveyard, stream, river, mountain. Civil War site, etc. The Society created a 5” x 7’ booklet from her work. The booklet is available for a $10 donation at the Historical Society’s office at 328 Gay Street in Washington (M, T, Th, 11 a.m.-5 p.m).
Scheel's map was created by the renowned historian and cartographer Eugene Scheel in 1999. The Society received a grant from the Hampton Foundation to create the map, and they enlisted Mr. Scheel to do the work. He researched thousands of documents relating to the history of Rappahannock County and interviewed hundreds of County residents.
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