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Fleurrys

The original home, the “Fleurrys,” is believed to have been built in the 1700s by the Peyton family.  The large front portion of the house was built around 1859 by John H. Suttle.  On the back side of the house and not visible from the road was a small, earlier dwelling that probably dated from…

Reconstruction: An Epitaph

Author, Eric Foner, in his book “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877″ wrote about the changes from slavery to the modern day: “Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to live up to the noble professions of their political creed…

Hector Sears and Freedmen’s Bureau in Stafford

Sears was born in Rochester, Ulster County, NY, on July 27, 1843, the son of Dr. Samuel James Sears and Clara Gertrude Sears. Educated at Montgomery Academy, he became a New York City store clerk. In 1861, he joined the 71st Regiment in New York City and served until he was mustered-out the same year.…

World War I and Aftermath

At least 329 Stafford men and women served in the First World War (Musselman). During that war the Quantico Marine Base was established, beginning a long relationship with Stafford County. The Quantico Marine Corps Reservation now occupies approximately 51 square miles of the northern portion of Stafford County and constitutes about 18 percent of the…

Walker’s Inn

At the core of every community is a gathering place, a location where people can get together and drink, dance, or play. Walkers Inn was the embodiment of this, being a place to drink and dance, as well as a place to watch baseball or races. The Stafford Athletic Club (SAC) was a period of…

Timber Logging

From the late 1600s to around 1930, Stafford County was one of Virginia’s most industrialized counties. Major industries conducted here included sandstone quarrying, fishing, iron making and forging, timbering, gold mining, pyrite mining, and flour milling. Logging and sawing lumber commenced shortly after the county was settled in the 1650s and continued as a major…

Telephone

Stafford County’s earliest telephone service was provided by the Toluca and Fredericksburg Telephone Company. While this was the first such venture in Stafford, residents and businesses in other regions had had telephones for years. With the formation of the Northern Neck Telegraph and Telephone Company in 1887, Lancaster County and part of King George were…

Stafford Athletic Club (SAC)

During the 1930s and 1940s, Stafford County hadn’t money to fund a school athletics program. In 1939, attorney Frank P. Moncure (1889-1969) organized a few of his friends and bought a 15-acre parcel of the old Atchison tract on which they constructed a ball field and bleachers. This became known as the Stafford Athletic Club…

Prohibition – Aquia Tavern

This little 20th century tavern was built on the edge of Wayside Farm that belonged to Col. Thomas Conway Waller (1832-1895). Wayside house stood on the north side of Garrisonville Road (Route 610) where Stafford Market Place shopping center is now located. This was a large, 1 ½-story frame building with a large chimney and…

Planters Bank

The building once known as part of the Fredericksburg Museum and Cultural Center was completed in 1927. Construction had commenced the previous year with Philip N. Stern as architect. This gentleman also designed the Princess Anne Hotel and Lafayette Elementary School (now the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Headquarters) in Fredericksburg as well as the present…

Reconstruction Brings the Beginnings of Black Community

In the 1870s black churches developed in the pockets of Stafford County where African Americans lived. Generally, the churches formed schools and evolved benevolence groups, such as the Union Branch of the True Vine, by which mutual assistance was possible. Community centers thus developed. The oldest black Stafford churches were all Baptist.  Some of them…

Reconstruction

Reconstruction refers to post-Civil War U.S. history from 1863 to 1877; it also refers to the transformation of the American South and its states during that same period. Directed by the Federal government with the aims of restoring the formerly seceded states to the Union, reconstructing and reconciling American society, and absorbing some four million…