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HistoryPoint - The rich history of Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Westmoreland in VA
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On August 19 and 20, 2006, Aquia Landing will host the Discovery Days Festival. With Jamestown's historic ship standing majestically offshore, the Landing Party brings the fun to you and your family. Come see Native American, African American, Elizabethan, colonial, and Civil War re-enactors show how people in older times lived in the History Village.
There is an herb called uppowoc, which sows itself. In the West Indies it has several names, according to the different places where it grows and is used, but the Spaniards generally call it tobacco. Its leaves are dried, made into powder, and then smoked by being sucked through clay pipes into the stomach and head. The fumes purge superfluous phlegm and gross humors from the body by opening all the pores and passages. Thus its use not only preserves the body, but if there are any obstructions it breaks them up. By this means the natives keep in excellent health, without many of the grievous diseases which often afflict us in England.
Since 1997, The Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. has been recording the stories of various members of the community who were knowledgeable about important area events. Some interviewees are well known for their political activism or local celebrity and others have simply been life-long residents -- but all their stories are equally important to a town as rich in history as Fredericksburg. Browse the interviews.
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