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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.
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Fauquier County and Warrenton Junction. Fauquier County, Virginia, is located slightly less than 50 miles (80 km) west of Washington, DC, and slightly less than 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Richmond, Virginia, which was the capital of the Confederate States of America. The county's population in 1860 was 21,763, and about half of its people ...
A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of fatally hitting an 8-month-old baby with his car after he allegedly left the child on the road following an argument with a female passenger.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...
It was operated as a jail until 1966, when the Fauquier Historical Society saved it from demolition and created a museum. The museum was known as The Old Jail Museum before it was rebranded as the Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail in 2014. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]
Footage of inmate Robert Brooks getting beaten by prison guards at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, New York on Dec. 9, 2024. New York State Department of Corrections via the New York ...
Warrenton Training Center was established on June 1, 1951, as part of a "Federal Relocation Arc" of hardened underground bunkers built to support continuity of government in the event of a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The center was ostensibly designated a Department of Defense Communication Training Activity and served as a communications training school. [1]