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1968 Map of Richardsville

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Richardsville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

The Rappahannock River carves a winding path through the center of this landscape, marking the boundary between Fauquier and Culpeper Counties. In the late 1960s, this rural Virginia region was defined by scattered crossroads communities such as Morrisville, Goldvein, and Richardsville. The terrain is deeply etched by a network of waterways including Sumerduck Run, Rock Run, and Deep Run, which flow toward the Rappahannock or south to the Rapidan River.

Social and community hubs appear throughout the quadrangle, notably in the form of several country houses of worship like Union Ch, Embrey Ch, and Clevers Oak Ch. Unique local features like the Drag Strip near Silver Hill and the recreational grounds of Camp Happyland show the mid-century evolution of land use in this wooded interior. Genealogists will find numerous small family plots marked simply as Cem, providing clues to ancestral homesteads near Hazel Run and Alcotts Run.