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The Carters Run Rural Historic District encompasses a large rural landscape in central northern Fauquier County. Covering some 4,400 acres (1,800 ha), the district extends south from near Marshall southward along Carters Run Road, the only major paved road through the district. The district also includes properties accessible from Scotts Road ...
Fauquier County / f ɔː ˈ k ɪər / is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 72,972. [ 1 ] The county seat is Warrenton .
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]
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 estimated population in July 2021 was 10,109. [9]
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.
Fauquier County, Virginia, geography stubs (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Fauquier County, Virginia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Paris, Fauquier County, Virginia. The district encompasses 386 contributing buildings, 27 contributing sites, and 21 contributing structures. It includes the separately listed Delaplane Historic District and Paris Historic District. [3]
G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area, one of the richest botanical areas of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a 4,000-acre (16 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) located primarily in Fauquier County, Virginia, with small encroachments into both Warren and Clarke Counties.