Board games have a surprisingly long history and have been a main form of entertainment until recently (see the links at the bottom of the post). Some ancient games include senet, the Royal Game of Ur, Go, Mancala, chess, and checkers. With television, video games, and the internet available, board games often take a back seat to…
The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy, Chapter 1
By Robert Krick The first 18 pages of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia, by Robert K. Krick, are reprinted here with permission from the author and publisher, Louisiana State University Press, which retains all republication rights. Library copies of The Smoothbore Volley are available…
How-To Festival Schedule of Sessions
Learn 30+ skills in four hours at the How-To Festival on Saturday, June 1, 10:00-2:00, at Porter Branch. From raising goats in your backyard to making your own essential oils, try your hand at something new in these 15 to 30-minute sessions led by local businesses and nonprofits, community members, and library staff. All ages are…
Stafford’s Major Mike Wallace
By G.B. Wallace, interviewed by John T. Goolrick Major Michael Wallace, of the American Revolutionary Army, was an enormous man, more than six feet six inches tall, broad and powerful. He was a brother of General* Gustavus B. Wallace, and after he had fought through the war with distinction, he and the general, bachelors, returned to live…
White Oak Primitive Baptist Church
The simple house of worship on White Oak Road, across from the White Oak Civil War Museum, has its historic roots in the separation of church and state and was a hub of Union Army activity in the winter of 1862-63. During the colonial period, the Anglican church was Virginia’s official faith, but other groups, such…
Drive Through Stafford County’s History
By the Stafford County Historical Society 1. AQUIA CRUCIFIX AND BRENT CEMETERY The crucifix, erected in 1930, memorializes the first English settlers of Stafford County, the Brenta. Colonel Giles Brent of Maryland and his Piscataway Indian wife settled at the mouth of Aquia Creek in 1647. His sisters joined them, one of them being Margaret…
Gari Melchers: Stafford County’s Artist in Residence
In 1916, Gari Melchers, an internationally famous painter, purchased the Belmont estate in Falmouth, Virginia. With the exception of some European travel in the 1920s, he made this his permanent home during the last decades of his life. Area residents and visitors are privileged to be able to visit this gem of a museum which combines a…
The History of Industry in Fredericksburg
From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library A Different Story: A Black History of Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania, Virginia by Ruth Coder Fitzgerald. These chapters are of particular interest: Chapter 2, Occupations and Owners (Antebellum period) and Chapter 13, Occupations (post-Civil War). Economic Challenge and Mercantile Enterprise in a Southern Urban System: A Case Study…
Hunter’s Island Vineyard
By Robert Hodge In 1883, Charles E. Hunter, an industrious Fredericksburg foundryman, purchased what was then known as Beck's Island just below the dam in the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg. Two years later he purchased a tract known as the "Falls Farm." On these properties, under the supervision of Mr. George Arnaud, a Frenchman who…
The Fredericksburg Sassafras Distillery
By Robert Hodge SASSAFRAS VARIFOLIUM is an old species, fossil forms being found in the one-hundred-million-year-old rocks of the Cretaceous period in both North America and Eurasia. Since the ice ages, it has continued to live only in a small section of Asia and in North America from Maine to Florida and westward to the…
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