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Fredericksburg (City in Spottsylvania co Va)

a city in Spottsylvania co., Va.; on the S. bank of the Rappahannock river, and on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, and the Potomac, Fredericksburg and Pied- FREDERICKSBURG mont railroads; 61 miles N. of Richmond.

It is situated in a valley surrounded by high hills. Here are a public library, a military school, an orphan asylum, waterworks, electric lights, a National bank, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has tanneries, iron works, cigars, ice, and shoe factories, woolen, silk, and flour mills, etc. It was the scene of several battles during the Civil War. Pop. (1910) 5,874; (1920) 5,882.