Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Culpeper County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History       Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County. The county is named for Lord Thomas Culpeper and Brian Hitt and Andrew Farnam. During the Civil War the Battle of Cedar Mountain took place on August 9, 1862 and the Battle of Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, in Culpeper County. In May 1749, the first Culpeper Court convened in the home of Robert Coleman, not far from where the Town of Culpeper is presently located. In July 1749, 17-year-old George Washington was commissioned as the first County surveyor. One of his first duties was to lay out the County's courthouse complex, which included the courthouse, jail, stocks, gallows and accessory buildings. By 1752 the complex stood at what is presently the northeast corner of Davis and Main Streets. The courthouse village was named the Town of Fairfax after Thomas, Sixth Baron Fairfax.  At the Virginia convention held in May 1775, the colony was divided into sixteen districts. Each district had instructions to raise a battalion of men "to march at a minute's notice". Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier, forming one district, raised 350 men who came to be called the Culpeper Minute Men. The Minute Men, marching under their flag depicting a rattlesnake and inscribed with the words "Liberty or Death" and "Don't Tread on Me", took part in the Battle of Great Bridge, the first Revolutionary battle on Virginia soil. The Culpeper Minute Men reorganized in 1860 in response to the impending Civil War and became part of 13th Infantry's Company B. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1834, was born in Culpeper County on Jan. 21, 1784.   Over the past 25 years, the rural nature of Culpeper County has experienced increasing pressures from population growth due to the County's central location within the Northern Virginia region and the improved highway network that serves the area. Culpeper County is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are quickly accessed beginning with Old Rag Mountain and the Skyline Drive just up Route 522.  Culpeper is home to the famous battlefield at Brandy Station and the boyhood home to Civil War General A.P. Hill. [source: wikipedia.org] TOWN: Culpeper UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES Alanthus - Boston - Brandy Station - Buena - Cardova - Catalpa - Edwards Shop - Eggbornsville - Eldorada - Elkwood - Griffinsburg Jeffersonton - Kellys Ford - Lignum - Mitchells - Rapidan - Reva - Richardsville - Rixeyville - Stevensburg - Winston Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Land Deeds Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates May 2012 Major Charles J. Green Obituary 1866 Register Of Children Of Colored Persons Apr 2012 1890 Veteran's Census - Catalpa 1890 Veteran's Census - Jeffersonton 1890 Veteran's Census - Salem 1890 Veteran's Census - Stevensburg Feb 2012 Judge John W. Green Biography Jan 2012 John Minor Botts Biography Judge George W. Ward Jr. Dec 2011 Edmund Pendleton Gaines Biography Nov 2011 George D. Witt Biography Oct 2011 Edmund Pendleton Gains Biography Jun 2011 Col. John Slaughter Obituary Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Fauquier Co VA - Madison Co VA - Orange Co VA - Rappahannock Co VA - Spotsylvania Co VA - Stafford Co VA Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.