It was here in 1749 that 17-year-old George Washington began surveying work for proprietor Thomas Fairfax, 6th Baron Fairfax of Cameron. (The town was officially called Fairfax until it was renamed by the Virginia Assembly in 1870.) In 1775, as the Revolution became imminent, 350 volunteers from Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier counties gathered under an oak tree near present-day Yowell Meadow Park and dubbed themselves the Culpeper Minute Men. Under a flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the defiant legends “Liberty or Death” and “Don't tread on me,” they would later march to Williamsburg in answer to Gov. Patrick Henry's call to arms. Learn More...
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