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ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
his advertisement that he had already paid out prizes in the
Shenandoah Bridge lottery ranging from $10,000 to $200; and
in the same issue of the Register he advertises another draw-
ing to be held at Winchester in April, 1833, for a capital
prize of $12,000, v^^ith smaller prizes in great number.
Among other contemporary lotteries that were author-
ized or operated in Rockingham were the following:
One in 1831-2 for raising money to construct a road from
Harrisonburg to Moorefield; another at the same time for the
benefit of the Port Republic and New Haven bridge; in 1833,
one to be conducted by Wm. Thompson, Anderson Moffitt,
John Zigler, Peter Grim, Saml. Hoover, and Isaac Thomas
for erecting a free bridge near Thompson's Store (now Tim-
berville); and one in 1838 for the benefit of the "Mt. Craw-
ford Free Bridge."
In the Rockingham Register of November 9, 1833, the
following notice appeared:
The annual general meeting of the Stockholders of the New Shenan-
doah Company will be held at the house of Mrs. Graham, in Port Re-
Apublic, on the 15th day of November Inst. general attendance of the
Company is requested. S. H. Lewis,
Treas'r. N. S. Com.
In 1836 the General Assembly agreed to a resolution re-
questing the board of public works to employ a competent
engineer to survey a route for a proposed railroad from Gor-
donsville, in Orange County, to Harrisonburg, in Rocking-
ham County.
The winter of 1840 in Rockingham was of unusual sever-
ity, and is thus described by Joseph Funk in a letter written
January 11:
As our winter weather here has thus far proved to be rather extra-
ordinary, I will state to you something about it. On Saturday night and
Sunday before Christmas there fell a snow 14 or 15 inches deep, on a
previous snow several inches deep; and on Friday after Christmas, (being
on the day of Hannah's infair which was held at Daniel Frank's) there
fell another about 10 or 12 inches deep, which drifted, together with the
other, in such a manner that many places of roads are impassible either
with wagon or horse. Mounds of snow are drifted together from 4 to 6
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his advertisement that he had already paid out prizes in the
Shenandoah Bridge lottery ranging from $10,000 to $200; and
in the same issue of the Register he advertises another draw-
ing to be held at Winchester in April, 1833, for a capital
prize of $12,000, v^^ith smaller prizes in great number.
Among other contemporary lotteries that were author-
ized or operated in Rockingham were the following:
One in 1831-2 for raising money to construct a road from
Harrisonburg to Moorefield; another at the same time for the
benefit of the Port Republic and New Haven bridge; in 1833,
one to be conducted by Wm. Thompson, Anderson Moffitt,
John Zigler, Peter Grim, Saml. Hoover, and Isaac Thomas
for erecting a free bridge near Thompson's Store (now Tim-
berville); and one in 1838 for the benefit of the "Mt. Craw-
ford Free Bridge."
In the Rockingham Register of November 9, 1833, the
following notice appeared:
The annual general meeting of the Stockholders of the New Shenan-
doah Company will be held at the house of Mrs. Graham, in Port Re-
Apublic, on the 15th day of November Inst. general attendance of the
Company is requested. S. H. Lewis,
Treas'r. N. S. Com.
In 1836 the General Assembly agreed to a resolution re-
questing the board of public works to employ a competent
engineer to survey a route for a proposed railroad from Gor-
donsville, in Orange County, to Harrisonburg, in Rocking-
ham County.
The winter of 1840 in Rockingham was of unusual sever-
ity, and is thus described by Joseph Funk in a letter written
January 11:
As our winter weather here has thus far proved to be rather extra-
ordinary, I will state to you something about it. On Saturday night and
Sunday before Christmas there fell a snow 14 or 15 inches deep, on a
previous snow several inches deep; and on Friday after Christmas, (being
on the day of Hannah's infair which was held at Daniel Frank's) there
fell another about 10 or 12 inches deep, which drifted, together with the
other, in such a manner that many places of roads are impassible either
with wagon or horse. Mounds of snow are drifted together from 4 to 6
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