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The flag of Virginia during the American Civil War An unidentified soldier in a Confederate States Army uniform with state of Virginia buttons. Virginia provided the following units to the Virginia Militia and the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS), part of the Confederate States Army, during the American Civil War.
Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro. American Revolutionary Executive Officer. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Stevens. The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice".
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, and may be seen in an online map.
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) [9] 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 ...
87001809 [ 1 ] VLR No. 204-0020. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. October 22, 1987. Designated VLR. April 21, 1987 [ 2 ] Culpeper Historic District is a national historic district located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States.
Designated VLR. June 20, 1989 [2] Miller–Southside Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 165 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of the town of Blacksburg. The residences date between 1909 and 1941, and are in a ...
Robert Young Button. Robert Young Button (November 2, 1899 – September 1, 1977) served two terms as Attorney General of Virginia, as well as a fifteen years as Virginia State Senator. Button rose through the ranks of the Byrd Organization and became one of its leading members as it ultimately crumbled as a result of the Massive Resistance crisis.
Designated VLR. March 20, 2008 [ 2] Pitts Theatre, also known as the State Theatre after 1970, is a historic movie theater located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in 1937–1938, and is a concrete block structure faced in brick in the Art Deco style. The building consists of a symmetrical three-bay façade, with a central ...