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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 129 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of the town of Culpeper. Notable buildings include the Culpeper County Courthouse (1874), Municipal Building (1928), jail and sheriff's office (1908), the Ann Wingfield School (1929), St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (1821), Culpeper Presbyterian Church (1868), Culpeper Baptist Church (1894 ...
Culpeper: 6: Culpeper Municipal Electric Plant and Waterworks: Culpeper Municipal Electric Plant and Waterworks: April 2, 2019 : 410-414 Spring St. Culpeper: 7: Culpeper National Cemetery: Culpeper National Cemetery
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]
Boston is an unincorporated community straddling Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States. [1] The George L. Carder House, which is located in nearby Castleton, Virginia, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [2]
The Lord Culpeper Hotel is a historic hotel building at 401 South Main Street in downtown Culpeper, Virginia.It is a three-story brick building with Colonial Revival features, including round-arch windows on the ground floor, a columned entry portico, and a projecting modillioned cornice.
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.
General Custer and staff at Clover Hill, 1864. Clover Hill is a decaying 18th-century plantation house near Culpeper in Culpeper County, Virginia. [1] Clover Hill is best known for serving as the headquarters for Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer during the American Civil War.