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Delaplane is a small unincorporated village in northern Fauquier County, Virginia, approximately 50 miles (80 km) due west of Washington, D.C. Delaplane is situated along U.S. Route 17, U.S. Route 50, and Interstate 66; bordering Upperville, Virginia to the north, Hume, Virginia to the south, Paris, Virginia to the west, and Rectortown, Virginia to the east.
Delaplane Historic District is a national historic district located at Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia.. The rural village of Delaplane was founded in 1852 around the Piedmont Station of the newly chartered Manassas Gap Railroad (originally to link the Alexandria and Orange Railroad with the line running into the Shenandoah Valley at Manassas; still operated by the Norfolk Southern Railroad).
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
The Plains is a small incorporated town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population was 245 as of the 2020 census, [7] up from 217 at the 2010 census. [8] It is centered on the intersection of VA 55 (John Marshall Highway) and VA 245 (Old Tavern Road). The town of The Plains is situated off I-66. As of 2022, the mayor of The ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... ZIP codes: 20130. FIPS code: 061: GNIS feature ID: 1493393: ... Delaplane, and The Plains, Virginia, so Paris and its carting-based ...
Yew Hill-Robert Ashby's Tavern-Shacklett's Tavern, known before 1760 as "Watts" or "Watts Ordinary", is a historic inn and tavern located near Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1760–1761, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, Colonial-era frame structure. It sits on a stone foundation and features a jerkin ...
It lies north of I-66, just east of the US-17/Delaplane exit from westbound I-66. It consists of two separate houses connected by a passageway. [ 3 ] The earlier and smaller house, a Colonial farmhouse measuring 32 ft × 30 ft (9.8 m × 9.1 m), was built in 1773 by Colonel Thomas Marshall , [ 3 ] father of John Marshall , Chief Justice of the ...
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.