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lson's Bed, Staunton, Virginia 78 Natural Bridge 81 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 90 Virginia Military Institute 92 "Monticello", near Charlottesville, Virginia 99 Rotunda of University of Virginia 102 "Kenmore", the Home of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, Fredericksburg, Virginia 107 James Monroe's Law Office 109 "The Mary Washington House", Fredericksburg, Virginia 116 "Rising Sun Tavern", Fredericksburg, Virginia 118 Scenic Highway in Southwest Virginia 126 Hungry Mother State Park 130 [Blank Page] [Illustration] Knights of The Golden Horseshoe Alexander Spotswood was the first Virginia Governor to become interested in the glowing accounts which the hunters and trappers brought back from the hill sections of the colony. He determined to see for himself those distant blue ridges. And while historians have not told us who guided him to the upper or western boundary of what was then Essex County, we are told that he became enthusiastic over the rich iron ore which he found in the peninsula formed by the Rapidan River. He decided to build iron furnaces at a point near the river. Later he had his agent, Baron de Graffenreid, go to Germany and bring master mechanics and their families to Virginia. The first German colony came in 1714 to Virginia and journeyed to Germanna, as they called their new home on the bank of the Rapidan River. They were made up of twelve families and numbered forty-two people in all, men, women and children. The Virginia Council passed an act which provided protection for the Germans. A fort was built for them, ammunition and two cannon were sent and an order was given for a road to be made to the settlement. These men and women were brave, loyal and deeply religious. They belonged to the German Reformed Church, which was a branch of the Presbyterian family of churches. Here they organized the first congregation of that faith in America and here they built their church. They had come from Westphalia, in Germany, and of course had
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