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Augusta County has fine soil for farming, but the land there was opened up to settlement some years ago. The House of Burgesses established it as a county way back in 1738. Most of the land is already claimed, and what remains is very expensive. All your savings could not buy 40 acres of land in Augusta County. Just about all of the good fertile bottom land is gone or too expensive for you to buy. Consider another county:
Image credit: Virginia County Map, Atlas of County Boundry
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