Culpeper Court House

1863–64 Winter Encampment

During the winter of 1863-64, Federal officers quartered in many of Culpeper’s homes. The surrounding landscape was dotted with tents and huts for ten square miles as nearly 100,000 soldiers encamped. Gen. U.S. Grant, commander of all Federal ...

John S. Barbour’s Birthplace

Just to the south stood Catalpa, where John Strode Barbour was born on 29 Dec. 1820. In 1849, he was appointed the state’s representative on the board of directors of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The board elected him president ...

Baptistown

Settled by Baptists in the 1720s. One of the area's older towns astride the Old Kings Highway (now Rte. 519), it offered a tavern, stores, and various artisans.

Marker is on County Route 519, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Rappahannock County / Culpeper County

Rappahannock County. Area 274 square miles. Formed in 1833 from Culpeper, and named for the Rappahannock River, headwaters of which are in this county.

Culpeper County. Area 384 square miles. Formed in 1748 from Orange, and named for Lord Culpeper, Governor ...

Union Lee Baptist Church

According to oral tradition, this congregation began meeting together for outdoor worship services in 1874. In 1884, Leonard Eck donated land, the B.J. Lee family gave a building, and the church was formally organized with the Rev. Anthony Winn as ...

Seeds-Kee-Dee-Agie, Spanish River, Rio Verde, Green River

To the Shoshone Indian, this river was the Seeds-Kee-Dee Agie (Prairie Chicken River). On Sept. 16 1811, the Astorians near its headwaters termed it the Spanish River. To the Spaniards, far to the south, it was the Rio Verde (Green ...

Graves of the Pierponts

In Memoriam

Francis H. Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia and the "Father of West Virginia" died on March 24, 1899. He is buried here with his wife, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont. They first met when he interviewed her ...

Washington Spring

1780

The Continental Army is reported to have utilized the old spring at the base of these slopes during the September encampment west of the Hackensack River.

Reports indicate that General Washington visited here and drank water from the spring.

Bergen County Park ...

Ruhama Baptist Church

Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama.

Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.

Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.

First meeting house was log cabin.

Present building is on fourth site.

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on the right ...

Sandy Ridge Baptist Church

First church built in 1818. This building erected 1866. Early ministers served in Flemington on Sunday,

here on weekdays.

Marker is at the intersection of Sandy Ridge Road and Sandy Ridge - Mount Airy Road, on the right when traveling west ...