Caroline County May Real Estate Transactions (The Free Lance–Star, 2008-06-14, p. F3):
Haymount Limited Partnership to Haymount (Fredericksburg) ASLT, deed book 962, page 985, $21,500,000.
Haymount Limited Partnership was the company that had been planning on building on 1,808 acres in Rappahannock Academy since about 1991 or so. One of their backers (Miller Company I think) backed […]

Rags to riches stories of hollywood celebrities – find out how much the house they grew up in cost and how much the one they live in now costs.

Eddie Murphy, See Home
Beverly Hills, CA – Eddie Murphy built a Mission-style $20 million mission in 2005.
Edward Regan “Eddie” Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an Academy […]

Well, at least no one was shot!
The Washington Post:
Four teenagers, all female, were stabbed in a Northeast Washington neighborhood yesterday shortly after the close of activities there promoting “Peace in the Streets.”
The teenagers, who range in age from 15 to 18, suffered wounds that were not believed life-threatening. The incident occurred about 7 p.m. near […]

Thursday June 19th [1862] Received such a precious budget yesterday of dates as late as the 13th of this month. Dick is getting on well though his arm is broken. Papa, Will and all are still in Richmond. Papa has been engaged in putting t…

The Washington Times:
The question should not be whether to take your next golf trip to Virginia, but where in Virginia you should go. We offer a few suggestions.
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6. Discover something new. Leave it to a patent attorney to develop 330 acres of “intellectual property” in Caroline County. Mattaponi Springs Golf Club is the brainchild of […]

Style Weekly reports that condo sales represented 19% of sales in the first quarter of 2008 in Richmond. That’s definitely an interesting figure given that this area’s largest (and only new) condo project (in which I live) has been scrapped.

It looks like I picked a good weather week to be out of town on a business trip, but I just missed what looked like a decent chase this afternoon as I arrived back in town around 5:30 pm. I did see a decent shelf cloud to the southeast and snapped a c…

…if you want this anniversary to be your last. It’s the WalMart “Happy Aniversary” gift card. Sorry about the blurry photo. Being in Walmart makes me jittery.

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I spent this morning checking out Fredericksburg’s annual Soap Box Derby on William Street. The race was first run in the city in1948, and after fizzling out in the mid-1970’s, it made a comeback in the 1990’s. Today the city’s Soap Box Derby is the …