Retro Reads: When the future sputtered into Fredericksburg
BY WENDY MIGDAL FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR Sometime in spring 1907, Fredericksburg saw the future. It might have been April or May. It might have come at the hands of Spotswood Foster or Robert Kishpaugh. At any rate, what Fredericksburg saw that day was its first automobile. A lengthy (for the time) feature article appeared on the front page of The Free LanceâStar on April 24, 1929, reminiscing about the first automobile to arrive in town on that day 22 years prior. According to ...
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