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Rappahannock County
Genealogy and History
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This Site is Available for Adoption!

Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.

We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool.

If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim.
(A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary)



We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody.
All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here.



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County History
Founded in 1656, Rappahannock County was formed from part of Lancaster County.  It became extinct when it was separated to form Essex County & Richmond Co, in 1692.  An act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1833, recreated Rappahannock County from Culpeper County.  The county was named for the river that divided it from Fauquier County.

MOUNTAINS
The summits of these mountains are located in this county:
Fork Mountain - Jenkins Mountain - Little Jenkins Mountain - Pickerel Ridge - Pignut Mountain - Piney Ridge

NATIONAL PROTECTED AREA - Shenandoah National Park

TOWN - Washington

UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES
Amissville - Castleton - Chester Gap - Flint Hill - Huntly - Laurel Mills - Massies Corner
Peola Mills - Revercombs Corner - Sperryville - Wakefield Manor - Woodville

Surrounding Counties

| Culpeper | Fauquier | Madison | Page | Warren |