Local History

Warsaw High School, Richmond County High School, and Rappahannock High School Yearbooks from 1948 to 2014.

Do you have any of the missing editions? If so, please contact us at library@rappahannock.edu about loaning us your yearbooks for to be digitized and shared online.

Virginia Chronicle is a historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 4 million newspaper pages.

Interested in the local history of the Northern Neck? Check out this quick link to the Virginia Chronicle collection of the Northern Neck News from 1879 to 1966.

Other local area newspapers of interest included in Virginia Chronicle are the Southside Sentinel from Urbanna (1899-2007) and the Rappahannock Record from Kilmarnock (1925-2007).

Thanks to the Richmond County Board of Supervisors, who commissioned and held the the copyrights to both books, we have now digitized and re-published online two outstanding histories of Richmond County. Both are free to read or download.

Also available, the 1975 Rappahannock Community College yearbook, Rappahannock 75, and a brief history of the college published to commemorate their 25th anniversary in 1995, Rappahannock Community College: First 25 Years.

Close Ties magazine was produced in 7 issues from 1990 to 1997 by Richmond County (Virginia) Intermediate School and gave students an opportunity to learn about and report on their community’s history. For each year’s issue, students interviewed family and community members and gathered photographs, under the guidance of their teacher/advisors. Each issue is available free online and is linked below.

Themes included:

Rappahannock Watermen(1990)
Various topics (1991)
Military veterans(1992)
Local agriculture(1993)
Local baseball history Part 1 (1994)
Local baseball history Part 2 (1995)
Various topics (1997).
No 1996 issue was produced, as the 1997 issue was composed over two years.

The library does not own the first issue on Local watermen from 1990, but will add it here when found. Thanks to Susan Gouldin for recommending this wonderful local history source for our online collections.