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- ↑ Moon, Vicky (2019-02-22). "Making 'The Circuit': Fauquier's African-American newspaper hailed from Catlett By Vicky Moon Contributing Writer". Fauquier Times. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
- ↑ Hollie, Donna Tyler; Tyler, Brett M.; White, Karen Hughes (2009). African Americans of Fauquier County. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia. p. 105. ISBN 0-7385-6757-4.
- ↑ "Libraries that Have It: The Circuit. (Catlett, Va.) 1937-19??". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. US Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ↑ "Library and Archives". Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ↑ "NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM- Ashville Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 21 October 2013.