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The Aquia Train Robbery

Mon, 03/15/2010 - 15:00 | Robert Hodge
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This account has been compiled from the Free Lance newspaper of Fredericksburg, Virginia, October 16, 1894 through September 27, 1895, by Robert A. Hodge.

Travel: Copyright-Free Illustrations for Lovers of History

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By Bobbie Kalman

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Etchings with descriptive text provide a look at various modes of transportation--boats, sleighs, coaches, railroads, and even horseless carriages--of the past.

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A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

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By Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack

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Back in the 1930s and 1940s, the trains took everybody everywhere in Pullman sleeping cars. The people who looked after the passengers were called porters. They were mostly black, and they formed their own union to fight against unfair working conditions. This book tells, in their own words and photos, the story of how they won their fight for justice.

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Alum Spring Park: A Walk Through History

Fri, 04/03/2009 - 14:12 | Steve Johnson, Robert Hodge, and Barbara Crookshanks
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Alum Spring Park is a 34-acre woodland retreat off Greenbriar Drive with a playground and hiking trails. Its sandstone cliff, also known as the Alum Spring Rock, is 400 feet long and 40 feet high.

The Narrow Gauge Railroad

Mon, 03/23/2009 - 12:52 | Robert Hodge
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In 1852, Fredericksburg business men were concerned with the failure of the Rappahannock Canal (see Fredericksburg Times, Jan., 1978), the impassability of the turnpike, the incomplete state of the plank road and the loss of county trade to the Alexandria markets via the railroad.

Dr. Edward Alvey, Jr.: The Dean Who Lived and Chronicled a Century

Fri, 09/03/2004 - 11:21 | Barbara Crookshanks
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When Dr. Edward Alvey, Jr., died at the age of 97 on July 11, 1999, generations of Mary Washington College students remembered him as their beloved Dean.

They -- and generations of Fredericksburgers -- also remembered him as a writer and historian who illuminated the life and times of our area.