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Roughly bounded by the Fauquier County line, Interstate 66, Delaplane Grade Rd., Naked Mountain, and State Route 55 38°55′50″N 77°57′24″W / 38.930556°N 77.956667°W / 38.930556; -77.956667 ( Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic
Stanardsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia.The district encompasses 146 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, 9 contributing structures, and 8 contributing objects in the Town of Stanardsville.
Fauquier County was created from western Prince William County in 1759. In 1790 Prince William County's population was 58% white; most of the remainder were enslaved African Americans . The county had been an area of tobacco plantations, but planters were changing to cultivate mixed crops due to soil exhaustion and changes in the market.
During the Virginia convention held in May 1775, the colony was divided into sixteen districts. Each district had instructions to raise a battalion of men "to march at a minute's notice." Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier, forming one district, raised 350 men in "Clayton's old field" on the Catalpa estate; they were called the Culpeper Minute Men.
Fauquier County / f ɔː ˈ k ɪər / is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 72,972. [ 1 ] The county seat is Warrenton .
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 United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business association advocacy group.It is the largest lobbying group in the United States. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President William Howard Taft and his Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel.
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of ...