Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town

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Goolrick John Tackett. Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town

FREDERICKSBURG. A Preface

INTRODUCTION

In the Older Days

After the Revolution

War’s Worst Horrors

The First Battle

At Chancellorsville

Two Great Battles

Heroes of Early Days

Men of Modern Times

Unforgotten Women

At the Rising Sun

Lafayette Comes Back

Old Court Records

Echoes of the Past

Where Beauty Blends

Church and School

The Church of England

The 250th Birthday

Appendix

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As a public speaker of wide reputation, especially on Southern themes, Hon. John T. Goolrick, Judge of the Corporation Court of Fredericksburg, Va., needs no introduction. It is my privilege to introduce him as a writer of history to an ever widening circle of readers. Other men can gather facts and put them in logical order, but few can give the history of the old town of Fredericksburg such filial sympathy and interest, such beauty of local color, as can this loyal son.

The father, Peter Goolrick, a man of fine education, came from Ireland and made his home in Fredericksburg, and was mayor of the town.

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In 1710, upon the invitation of Baron de Graffenried, a friend of Governor Spotswood, twelve German families came to America and settled on the Rapidan river, eighteen miles above Fredericksburg, opening the first iron mines and establishing the first iron works in America. They named the place Germanna, and, according to an account left by one of the party, “packed all their provisions from Fredericksburg,” then the principal trading point of the section.

In 1715, Governor Spotswood and the now-famed “Knights of the Golden Horseshoe,” started from Germanna (some of them came through Fredericksburg en route and stopped with Austin Smith). Assembling at Germanna they left on September 24th and continued across the Blue Ridge mountains to the Valley of Virginia. An interesting account of the trip, which has been made the theme of song and story, and even the basis of a secret society, can be found in the diary of John Fountaine, a member of the party.

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