250 Years In Fauquier County
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Author | : Kathi Ann Brown |
Publisher | : George Mason University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries of change in Fauquier County, Virginia. Commissioned by the Fauquier Historical Society to commemorate the county's 250th anniversary, this engrossing narrative tells the story of the men and women, black and white, who built the region's farms, plantations, schools, and churches. Individual biographies are interwoven with a social, political, and military history of the American Revolution and Civil War, allowing crucial events in the county's history to come alive. This book also explores Fauquier's depressed economy after the Civil War and shows how the area's location and natural beauty drew wealthy outsiders to purchase estates in the early part of the twentieth century. After midcentury, the enormous expansion of the Washington suburbs ignited a heated and ongoing debate over the county's position on growth and development. Related here is the fascinating story of a historically significant county. The volume has more than two hundred illustrations, some displaying the county's stunning beauty, which enhance the book throughout.
Author | : Thomas Triplett Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781556134272 |
Dixon Valley is located in Fauquier County.
Author | : Ruth Sparacio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Court records |
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Author | : Presley Alexander Lycurgus Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Fauquier County (Va.) |
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Author | : Matthew C. Benson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010-09-27 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439626359 |
Fauquier County, officially established in 1759, was named after Francis Fauquier and has long been known for its Civil War history, large farms, country estates, small towns including Warrenton and Marshall, and quaint villages including Upperville, Delaplane, and The Plains. Today its rural historic beauty and preserved open spaces lure Washingtonians away for day-trips and weekend retreats. Well-known industry baron Walter Chrysler, philanthropist Paul Mellon, and movie and television stars Robert Duvall and Willard Scott have all called Fauquier home.
Author | : Donna Tyler Hollie |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738567570 |
Fauquier County, in Northern Virginia, was established in 1759. It was formed from Prince William County and was named for Virginia lieutenant governor Francis Fauquier. In 1790, there were 6,642 slaves in Fauquier County. By the eve of the Civil War, there were 10,455. From 1817 to 1865, the county was home to 845 free black people. The African American population declined at the end of Reconstruction, and by 1910, the white population was double that of blacks. The population imbalance continues today. Through centuries of slavery and segregation, Fauquier County's African American population survived, excelled, and prospered. This minority community established and supported numerous churches, schools, and businesses, as well as literary, political, and fraternal organizations that enhanced the quality of life for the entire county.
Author | : T. Triplett Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fauquier County (Va.) |
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Author | : Harry Connelly Groome |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Fauquier County (Va.) |
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Author | : Jim Hall |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1439657696 |
This true crime history reveals the harrowing story of a black man brutally murdered by a lynch mob in 1932 Virginia. In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia. Though a mob set fire to his body, officials were able to identify him as Shedrick Thompson, who had been wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson killed himself, framing his gruesome death as the final act of a desperate fugitive. But residents knew better. Thompson had been the victim of a lynching—the last one known in Virginia. In The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia, author Jim Hall pieces together Thompson’s life, the weeks-long manhunt to find him, and his final hours. He also details the lawless practice of lynching in Fauquier County. This true crime chronicle takes an in-depth look at Thompson’s case to expose a complex and disturbing chapter in Virginia history.
Author | : James Hall |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2023-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467154598 |
When romance was met with murder... Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pregnant, the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland. But her father found them and recruited neighbors to help kidnap them. Four nights later, a mob dragged Arthur from the county jail in Warrenton and lynched him. Elvira, taken to a hotel in Williamsport, Maryland, was never heard from again. Stories of lynching are all too common in the postbellum South, but this one tells a unique tale of a couple who were willing to sacrifice everything to be together--and did. Author Jim Hall tells a classic tale of forbidden love, one of hope crushed by hate.