While there are numerous challenges in making a move, there are advantages, too. A new area provides new opportunities to see and learn about local history. Recently, a career change has set in motion events my relocation to Fredericksburg. Spotsylvania County was one of the most fought over areas of the Civil War, and thus it is extremely rich in its history of the conflict.
The photographs made at Massaponax Church during the Overland Campaign are familiar to most Civil War enthusiasts, but many do not realize that the church still stands, as it has for generations. Today, I stopped to get a "now" picture to go with one of those famous "then" pictures.
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| Massaponax Church, March 2022 |
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| Massaponax Church, May 1864 |
I hope to do many more "then and now" posts in the near future since Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County received significant photographic documentation during the war.
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