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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 Fauquier County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in Fauquier County, Virginia. Its headquarters are in Warrenton. [19] It supports the Warrenton Training Center, a CIA site in Warrenton. [citation needed] Warrenton and Remington have their own police departments. [20] [21]
Warrenton Historic District is a national historic district located at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. When originally listed, it encompassed 288 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of the county seat of Warrenton.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Vint Hill Farms Station was established during World War II in 1942 by the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS). The 701-acre (284 ha) facility was built because the Army needed a secure location near SIS headquarters in Arlington Hall to serve as a cryptography school and as a refitting station for signal units returning from combat prior to redeployment overseas.
North Wales is a historic plantation [3] and national historic district located in Fauquier County, Virginia near Warrenton, Virginia. Currently it is a 1,287.9-acre (521.2 ha) historic district that includes a manor home and farm. A date of significance for the site is 1776. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
Brentmoor was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The house briefly served as the location for the John Singleton Mosby Museum and Education Center, founded by Patricia B. Fitch in 2001. In 2018, the town sold the property back into private ownership. As of 2019, it is under renovations to become a family home. [3] [4]
The East Virginia Mineral and Warrenton Improvements Company purchased Monterosa from Smith's daughter, Mary Amelia Smith, in 1890 for $20,000 as part of a planned community south of Warrenton. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] [ 7 ] Following the planned community's failure to materialize, Monterosa was sold to James Kerfoot Maddux in 1895 for $5,500.