The Octonia Grant: In Orange and Greene Counties

The Octonia Grant: In Orange and Greene Counties (1977; reprinted 1998)
by J. Randolph Grymes, Jr. In 1722, eight patentees received a grant to 24,000 acres, a holding that stretched along the Rapidan River from north-central Orange County to beyond Stanardsville in today's Greene County. (Greene was formed from Orange in 1838.) As an historian and a professional engineer, Mr. Grymes meticulously researched and wrote the history of that grant and its people. His field research actually located the last known Octonia boundary stone, carved with a cross atop the number eight.
(Softcover, about 126 pages w/illustrations, maps, and full index)