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9 unusual facts about Rappahannock River


Bannered routes of U.S. Route 17

US Bus 1 & 17 continues to run northwest until they reach US 1 where US BUS 1 terminates, but US BUS 17 joins and cross the Rappahannock River, and enters Falmouth.

Daniel Noce

He served on the Rappahannock River Basin Advisory Committee, which advised state and local governments about water use and long term planning, including construction of the proposed Salem Church Dam.

Daniel Phineas Woodbury

At Fredericksburg, he earned the brevet of brigadier general in the regular army for his efforts in supervising the construction of several pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River.

James DeRuyter Blackwell

The poem "War" specifically mentions the battles along the Rappahannock River in Virginia, considered the eastern boundary between the Union and Confederate States of America.

John Lederer

They departed from Robert Talifer's (surname may have been Taliaferro or a variation of this prominent family) house, at a small settlement south of the Rappahannock River.

Moncure D. Conway

His father was a wealthy gentleman farmer, a slaveholder, and county judge whose home, known as the Conway House, still stands in Falmouth at 305 King Street (aka River Road) along the Rappahannock River.

Romeyn B. Ayres

At Fredericksburg he commanded the corps artillery stationed across the Rappahannock River on Falmouth Heights.

St. Clair Augustine Mulholland

In this campaign he was given the command of the picket line by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock and covered the retreat of the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River.

Thomas H. Neill

Neill had his horse shot from under him in the fight for Scott's Ford, Sedgwick's means of escaping across the Rappahannock River from converging Confederate attacks.


140th Pennsylvania Infantry

On April 28, the 140th broke camp and marched with the II Corps around Gen. Robert E. Lee’s left flank, crossing the Rappahannock River at United States Ford and proceeding toward Chancellorsville, where it arrived on May 1 and took its place in the left center of Gen. Joseph Hooker’s line.

33rd Virginia Infantry

At the beginning of May 1863, a new Union General, Joseph Hooker led the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River while making a demonstration in front of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

He performed duty with his command, made the fruitless march in spring of 1862 under McClellan towards Manassas, went to the first campaign of the Rappahannock, engaged in small affairs at Thornburg near Fredericksburg.

Bristoe Campaign

Meade advanced his army to the Rappahannock River in August, and on September 13 he pushed strong columns forward to confront Lee along the Rapidan, occupying Culpeper, Virginia, following the Battle of Culpeper Court House.

John Porter Hatch

Hatch's brigade made a series of daring raids on enemy positions near the Rapidan and Rappahannock rivers.

Mosby Heritage Area Association

The Mosby Heritage Area is located about one hour's drive west of Washington, D.C., and is bound by the Bull Run Mountains to the east, the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west, the Potomac River to the north and the Rappahannock River to the south.

Willis Sharpe Kilmer

He was extensively involved in real estate, owning a family mansion in Binghamton, NY, constructing the twelve story Press Building in downtown Binghamton as a home for another new business he created, The Binghamton Press Co., building several other less-prominent buildings in downtown Binghamton, and three racing stables and estates: Sun Briar Court in Binghamton, Court Manor in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and Remlik, on the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River.


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