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Susan Cummings (born July 21, 1962, in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is an American heiress, best known for killing her boyfriend in 1997. She had been charged with homicide, but subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. She was released after serving 57 days. Biography Cummings and her fraternal twin sister, Diana, are the only children of billionaire arms dealer Samuel Cummings. After ...
NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville. "Virginia". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997. "Virginia Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999. "United States: Virginia". NewsDirectory.com.
He owned Rockburn Stud Farm in The Plains, Virginia, and raced under the name of Rockburn Farm. Since 1936 he published and edited The Fauquier Democrat, a weekly newspaper in Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the president of the Loudoun Times-Mirror. [2] He died on August 15, 1969, at his Rockburn Farm estate. [3]
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With more than 200 years of local newspaper history [clarification needed], the company grew by focusing on local news. As of 2008, the Times Community Newspapers 240,000 households in Northern Virginia. [2] TCM is a co-owner of the Washington Suburban Press Network, which is also a group of regional community newspapers. [3]
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.
Fannie Marr was born in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia on July 2, 1835. [3] [1] Of French and Scotch descent, [4] her parents were Catherine Inman (née Horner) Marr (1797-1879) and John Marr (1788-1848), who had married in 1816. John Marr was the grandson of a French immigrant with the surname "La Mar".
The Little River Rural Historic District encompasses a large rural landscape in northeastern Fauquier County. Covering some 23,000 acres (9,300 ha), the district extends from near The Plains in the south to near Middleburg in the north. On the east it is bounded by the Bull Run Mountains, and on the west by Cromwell's Run.