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Thanks

Nothing in this archive is ours to begin with. Every date, name and quotation comes from an institution's records, a reporter's work or a maker's own words. These are the shelves it is drawn from, and the ways to support the people who keep them.

Central Rappahannock Heritage Center

Documents and photographs from the early 1700s onward, and the archive's record of slavery and Black Fredericksburg.

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National Park Service

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, and its scholarship on the 1862 river crossings.

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The Rappahannock Tribe

The first history of this river, told by its own nation in the Tribe's published history.

University of Mary Washington

The James Farmer records and multimedia project.

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City of Fredericksburg

The Civil Rights Trail and the city's own records.

Gari Melchers Home & Studio at Belmont

The source for the painter's entry.

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Virginia Department of Historic Resources

The 2008 National Register nomination for the Pitts Theatre in Culpeper, for the history of the Pitts chain.

Front Porch Fredericksburg

Named alongside the Free Press across the makers' entries.

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