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==Notable people== * [[John Day Andrews]] (1795β1882), Mayor of Houston<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/andrews-john-day | website=Texas Handbook Online |title=Andrews, John Day |access-date=January 7, 2023 | publisher=Texas State Historical Association |last=Benham |first=Priscilla Myers}}</ref> * [[Thomas Dickens Arnold]], [[United States Congressman]] from Virginia<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book |title=Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607β1896 |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |location=Chicago |year=1963}}</ref> * [[Francis Asbury]] (1745β1816), one of the first two bishops of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]]{{refn|now the United Methodist Church in the United States}} * [[Caressa Cameron]], [[Miss Virginia]] 2009 and [[Miss America 2010]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Covering Caressa Cameron|publisher=www.fredericksburg.com|first=Edie|last=Gross|url=http://fredericksburg.com/topics/caressa-cameron-pictures-miss-virginia/index_html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123103934/http://fredericksburg.com/topics/caressa-cameron-pictures-miss-virginia/index_html|archive-date=January 23, 2013}}</ref> * [[Elijah Craig]], Baptist minister arrested in Fredericksburg for preaching without a license from the Anglican Church before the American Revolution<ref>[http://www.fredericksburgbaptistchurch.org/NHist.htm "Fredericksburg Baptist Church"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221165948/http://www.fredericksburgbaptistchurch.org/NHist.htm |date=February 21, 2014 }}, Nomination for National Register of Historic Places, State of Virginia; cf. {{cite news|newspaper=The Free Lance-Star|location=Fredericksburg, Virginia|title=The First Hundred Years Were The Hardest|date=November 18, 1967|page=8|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19671118&id=uc1NAAAAIBAJ&pg=6038,4648029}}</ref> * [[Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette]] (1842β1914), author<ref name="WillardLivermore1893">{{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n241 237]β}}</ref><ref name="Frost1954">{{cite book|last=Frost|first=May (Miller)|title=De Jarnette and Allied Families in America (1699-1954)|url=https://archive.org/details/dejarnetteallied00fros|year=1954|publisher=San Bernardino, Calif. [1954]}}</ref> * [[Joe Gibbs]], former [[Washington Redskins]] coach<ref>{{cite news|last=Couloumbis |first=Angela E. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/realestate/1996/03/02/fawn-lake-on-the-water-in-spotsylvania/b732232c-89e6-406e-9e94-93348ec221cd/ |title=Fawn Lake: On The Water In Spotsylvania |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 2, 1996 |access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> * [[Rahman "Rock" Harper]], chef, television personality, and [[restaurateur]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122501172.html|title="Hell's Kitchen" winner Rahman "Rock" Harper Readying Menu for New D.C. Eatery|last=Black|first=Jane|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=December 26, 2008|access-date=February 17, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> * [[Alexander Holladay]] (1811β1877), [[United States House of Representatives|U. S. Representative]]{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} * [[Danny McBride (actor)|Danny McBride]], actor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/012008/01242008/351013/index_html?page=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124083300/http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/012008/01242008/351013/index_html?page=1 |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |title=Movie, TV projects fall in line for local native |publisher=Fredericksburg.com |date=January 24, 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2013 }}</ref> * [[Phil Short]], former member of the [[Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana State Senate]] and [[United States Marine Corps]] officer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lakeannarentals.org/virginian-short|title=A Virginian in Short|publisher=enlou.com|access-date=November 3, 2009}}</ref> * [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], father of modern oceanography<ref>Birth: Stevens, J. A., DeCosta, B. F., Johnston, H. P., Lamb, M. J., & Pond, N. G. (1887). The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries. A. S. Barnes.</ref>{{rp|452}}<ref>Father of modern oceanography: [[Willi H. Hager|Hager, W. H.]] (2015). Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. CRC Press.</ref>{{rp|2318}}
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