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MOMENTS >> Meet Virginia's other Fredericksburg
Meet the other 'Fredericksburg, Va.'--where horses easily outnumber stores
Date published: 10/3/2009
BY ROBERT A. MARTIN The twisty gravel road rises and falls, clinging at times to a steep, rocky hillside called Hogback Mountain. Four miles off Interstate 64, Fredericksburg Road meets Farmhouse Road. When you reach the T intersection, you've arrived in downtown Fredericksburg. That's Fredericksburg in Rockbridge County, a suburb of sorts of Lexington. Nestled between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains west of the Shenandoah Valley, this Fredericksburg is a former crossroads of mountain paths, possibly a route connecting Lexington with Goshen Pass. "It's not a town. I wouldn't even call it a village. Just a place name," says Jean Clark, the director of tourism at the Rockbridge County Historical Society. Clark, a dairyman's daughter who grew up in rural Rockbridge, said this 'Burg was so named because it was once the site of a one-room schoolhouse, similar to many small schools that once peppered the county. The school--built in 1885 and destroyed in the 1920s--was named after local landowner and musician Frederick Snider. In the shadow of the mountain, horses graze, dogs bark and water flows from the hillside. The creeks feed the Maury River, which links the nearby Goshen Scout Camp (a future National Jamboree site) with the James River. There is no store. No stoplight. No sidewalk. There are gnats. The locals say there are always gnats. Moments is an occasional photo feature about people and places. Submit ideas to
Date published: 10/3/2009
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