List of Illustrations
| Page | |
| George Washington's Headquarters, Winchester, Virginia | [27] |
| View Along the Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park | [38] |
| "The Cypress Garden", a Scene in Endless Caverns | [57] |
| "The Manse", Woodrow Wilson's Birthplace, Staunton, Virginia | [76] |
| Woodrow Wilson'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] |
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.