Many rural counties have a traditional, local bank - Fauquier National Bank, now The Fauquier Bank, in Fauquier County, Virginia. In Culpeper, Virginia, it s the Second National Bank. They sponsor a map and its role in the heritage of the county. The only place you can get the Fauquier map is at the bank. That makes people go into the bank.
Special landmarks deserve a written portrait.
Scheel explains why they were landmarks. His anecdotes depart from the routine narrative about locations and appearances and reach out to personalities and their eccentric ways, successes and failures, particularly in commerce and business. But it was a landmark, partly because of William D. Sharett s dairy farm. He was always a bit ahead of everyone in using the right feeds and fertilizers. During the early 1930s, he had a Washington plant that made some of the earliest milk cartons.