RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Rappahannock River

... comes into my mind, I shall here insert an account of a very strange fish or rather a monster, which I happened to see in Rappahannock River about a year before I came out of the country; the manner ...

— The Bounty of the Chesapeake - Fishing in Colonial Virginia • James Wharton

... which he was born was burned, and as his father was at the time especially interested in some iron-works at a distance, it was determined not to rebuild upon the lonely place. Accordingly Augustine Washington removed his family to a place which he owned in Stafford County, on the banks of the Rappahannock River opposite Fredericksburg. The house is not now standing, but a picture was made of it before it was destroyed. It was, like many Virginia houses of the day, divided into four rooms on a floor, and had great ...

— Our Holidays - Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas • Various