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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BC3_vint-hill-farms-station_Warrenton-VA.html
In June 1942 the U.S. Army established a top-secret post at Vint Hill Farms to intercept enemy radio transmissions. These barns housed the monitoring station. The Signal Corps' cryptographic school, which taught personnel to encode, decode, and tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CI3_black-horse-cavalry_Warrenton-VA.html
The Black Horse Cavalry was conceived at a gathering of Warrenton lawyers in 1858 and was among the local militia companies called to active duty by Governor Henry Wise in 1859. The Black Horse led a successful charge against Union forces at the F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Q0_executions-in-the-yard_Warrenton-VA.html
It is possible that early executions were carried out here in the exercise yard, however it is equally probably that they occurred in front of the jail, close to the courthouse or at another public location. Hangings were public in Virginia before…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM142D_warrenton_Warrenton-VA.html
Chosen as county seat in 1759, and first called Fauquier Court House, Warrenton was laid out as a town in 1790. John Marshall began law practice here. In the War Between the States it was the center of operations north of the Rappahannock and many…
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Although Warrenton was spared the ravages of major battles during the war, control of the town changed hands 67 times and many homes and churches housed soldiers or were used as hospitals. Warrenton was the home of several notable Confederates inc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOL6_second-manassas-campaign_Warrenton-VA.html
A mile northwest stood Waterloo Bridge, where on 22 Aug. 1862 Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart crossed the Rappahannock River to threaten the rear of Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's army 14 miles southeast at Catlett Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCQE_leeton-forest_Warrenton-VA.html
Half a mile east is the site of Leeton Forest, latter-day home of Charles Lee, Attorney General in Washington's and Adams' cabinets, 1795-1801. The tract was patented by Thomas Lee, of Stratford, in 1718 and descended to his son, Richard Henry Lee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W6_colonial-road_Warrenton-VA.html
This crossroad is the ancient Dumfries-Winchester highway. Over it William Fairfax accompanied George Washington, then a lad of sixteen, on his first visit to Lord Fairfax at Greenway Court. It was on this occasion that Washington assisted in surv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VZ_buckland-races_Warrenton-VA.html
For Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and his Confederatecavalry, the 1863 campaigns brought fewervictories against the improving cavalry corpsof the Union Army of the Potomac—that is,until October 19, 1863. Here on Chestnut Hill the wilyConfederate had…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TJ_brentmoor_Warrenton-VA.html
Judge Edward M. Spilman of the Fauquier County Circuit Court constructed this house in 1859-61. James Keith, who served in the Black Horse Cavalry and later became president of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, acquired it in 1869. Joh…
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