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Warrenton is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. [8] It is the county seat.The population was 10,057 as of the 2020 census, [9] [10] an increase from 9,611 at the 2010 census [11] and 6,670 at the 2000 census. [6]
The National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, northern Virginia The main article for this category is National Register of Historic Places listings in Fauquier County, Virginia . Subcategories
The Six Nations ceded the entire region including modern Fauquier to Virginia Colony at the Treaty of Albany, in 1722. Fauquier County was established on May 1, 1759, from Prince William County. It is named for Francis Fauquier, [5] Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, who won the land in a poker game, according to legend.
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John Marshall's Leeds plantation house.. The historic district encompasses 395 contributing buildings, 45 contributing sites, and 24 contributing structures. The district is characterized as a cohesive locality that is characterized by large expanses of open agricultural land, historic roadways, and rolling foothill terrain.
Flanagan died that afternoon at a hospital from self-inflicted gunshot wounds after he was approached by police on I-66 in Fauquier County. Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce director Vicki Gardner, who was being interviewed by Parker before the shooting, was the only survivor and was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the back.
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Oakwood is a historic farm property west of Warrenton in rural Fauquier County, Virginia. It is bounded on the south by Old Waterloo Road, and on the west by Great Run, a south-flowing tributary of the Rappahannock River. The main house is a rambling two-story masonry building, whose oldest portions date to the 18th century.