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After establishing Culpeper County, Virginia in 1748, the Virginia House of Burgesses voted to establish the Town of Fairfax on February 22, 1759. The name honored Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781) [7] who was proprietor of the Northern Neck peninsula, a vast domain north of the Rappahannock River; his territory was then defined as stretching from Chesapeake Bay to what ...
It encompasses 76 contributing buildings in a residential section of the town of Culpeper. The earliest houses date to the 1830s-1840s, with most built after 1870. Notable buildings include the late Federal -style "Episcopal Rectory" (c. 1835), Old Hill House (c. 1840), Lawrence-Payne-Chelf House (1852), Old Waite House (1870-1871), and Crimora ...
By the middle of the 1970s, [6] Culpeper was the last county in Virginia to desegregate its public schools. In 2018 Culpeper County Public Schools [7] has six elementary, two middle schools and two high schools. In 1935 the Rotary Club of Culpeper began a college loan fund, which in 1966 became a four-year scholarship based on academic achievement.
Culpeper Claim to fame: Set inside a historic 1890s building, Piedmont offers 27-day dry-aged prime steaks and bestsellers that include a petite filet mignon and a bison rib-eye. A specialty ...
Culpeper Basin, New Jersey, United States Culpepper Island , a small uninhabited isle off the coast of Barbados, West Indies Culpepper Island (Galápagos) , other name of Darwin Island in the Galapagos, Ecuador
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Burgandine House is a historic home located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built about 1700, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, plank log dwelling. It has a gable roof and weatherboard siding. The building served periodically for several years as the headquarters for the Culpeper Historical Society.
Culpeper station is a train station in Culpeper, Virginia. It was built in 1904 by the Southern Railway , replacing an 1874 station house which itself replaced two stations originally built by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad .