This sign marks the town of Tappahannock in Essex County, Virginia. It is on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Many of my early Waggener and Garnett ancestors lived close to this town in the late 1600's and early 1700's. They certainly would have been familiar with the town, which would have been known to them as Hobbs his Hole.(Photo from the Middle Penninsula Planning District Commission.) |