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D.P lived in the White Oak area of Stafford County. He owned and operated the White Oak Civil War Museum. The Museum is now closed but displayed thousands of Civil War artifacts. It also contained years of research information, which included copies of letters sent home by soldiers, as well as, other documentation written or…

Frank grew up in the Wildcat Corner area of eastern Stafford County. His ancestors were associated with the agricultural way of life although he served in the Air Force and retired as a Captain. He and his siblings attended local public schools during the time of school desegregation and were involved closely with such activities.…

Sally is a retired schoolteacher and farm-land owner in western Stafford. The family farm, Poplar Grove, on which Ms. Fitzhugh lives, has a long and interesting history. She tells of times when enslaved people lived on the farm and of a cemetery for the enslaved located there in a small grove of trees. Former ownership…

Alice grew up in the Ramoth area of Stafford when it was still very rural and consisted mainly of farms. She tells of times when citizens were quite self-sufficient and later of how change came to the county. Families were large and worked together helping each other on large jobs such as harvest and slaughter…

was born in Falmouth and has lived there all her life except for two years during which her husband was serving in the Army. She tells of times beginning when the Jefferson Davis highway was just a two lane road and how noise from the heavy traffic was very bothersome. Traffic was a challenge in…

John has lived in Stafford all his life except for his service in the US Navy during WW II. While born in Widewater as the youngest of four, he soon moved to live with another family in the Ruby area after his mother died. His family was later asked to relocate from what is now…

Everett was raised on a farm on Warrenton Road. Toward the end of the great depression, his father rented acreage for the Civilian Conservation Camp operated by the federal government to provide jobs for young men who worked on local conservation projects. Everett provides first hand accounts of the practices used in the camp and…

Richard lives in the house where he was born right along Jefferson Davis Highway in southern Stafford. His family history is rich with old line Stafford family names and he with his two younger brothers grew up in an earlier time. The home farm was a top notch dairy operation with fine blood lines at…

Madalene was born and grew up in the rural western part of Stafford. After graduating from the public schools, she worked for a while for a northern VA office of the telephone company where she met and married her husband. To satisfy a life long desire to teach school, she earned a degree and taught…

Herbert was born and raised in the historic village of Falmouth. He and the other local boys developed great familiarity with the Rappahannock River even to the point of knowing the locations and names of the deep holes in the river bottom where they would swim and play. Certain rocks in the river had names…

Preston’s grandparents migrated ‘back east’ from Colorado in 1911 for a change of pace and found a place along the Rappahannock on which they settled. Farming and wood sales provided income and Preston recalls times in an earlier Falmouth as well as changes along Warrenton Road between Rte.1 and I-95. He attended Stafford public schools,…

Marion grew up in the historic village of Falmouth which dates back to the days of exploration by John Smith. She has always been interested in history and is one of the residents who can relate details of life in the village starting with colonial times. Her father was born on a farm on Hunter’s…