Visit Culpeper, Virginia - History & Heritage
In 1775, the Culpeper Minutemen mustered in Old Clayton’s field in Culpeper, what is Yowell Meadow Park today. With its rich agricultural heritage, and Colonial and Civil War history, Culpeper offers an authentic experience for visitors to step back in time. Civil War battlefields are well-preserved and bear strong resemblance to their original landscape. Explore them on your own or enhance your visit with a knowledgeable local guide. The Museum of Culpeper History offers a unique glimpse into Culpeper’s past, and the walls of Graffiti House in Brandy Station contain over 200 pieces of original graffiti and drawings left behind by recuperating Union and Confederate soldiers. The annual Culpeper Harvest Days Farm Tour in October is the perfect weekend to explore Culpeper’s agricultural heritage, and many local farms are open to the public year ‘round for tours, on site purchases, or just strolling around.
Visit Culpeper, Virginia - Historic Downtown
Founding fathers, Civil War generals, and centuries of colorful characters have shaped the history of Culpeper, Virginia, and our downtown bears the mark of them all. Through the years, community revitalization efforts have paid off and today Culpeper stands as a shining example of Virginia’s Main Street program. A working community and visitor destination at once, the vibrant array of shops, restaurants, attractions, and accommodations offer visitors the perfect place to unwind. Let Amtrak bring you right into the restored train depot and into the heart of the historic downtown. The National Trust named Culpeper a Great American Main Street in 2012. Take just a few steps and you’ll see why.
Red Roof Inn Culpeper in Culpeper VA
Prices: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . .. .. .. Red Roof Inn Culpeper 889 Willis Lane Culpeper VA 22701 Just off Route 29, the Rodeway Inn hotel is less than five miles from Brandy Station Battlefield, home to the largest Civil War cavalry battle. This Culpeper, VA hotel is minutes away from Shenandoah National Park, HITS Commonwealth Park multipurpose venue and the Museum of Culpeper History. Rooms are equipped with refrigerators and cable television. Some rooms have microwaves, sofa sleepers, pillow-top mattresses and hair dryers. Handicap accessible and non-smoking rooms can be requested. There is a coin-operated laundry facilities on the property. Ample parking is available and can accommodate most cars, trucks or buses. This Culpeper, VA hotel offers features and amenities, including: Free continental breakfast; Free wireless high-speed Internet access; Free local calls; Pet-friendly hotel; fees apply. Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like the public computer with Internet access and copy and fax services. Culpeper is the gateway to Virginia's wine country and close to a number of award-winning wineries and vineyards. Tour the nearby Belmont Farm Distillery, Old House Vineyards, Unicorn Winery, Prince Michel Winery or Gray Ghost Vineyards where you can enjoy wine tasting events and tours. Lake Pelham is less than one mile away and provides the perfect backdrop for hiking, biking, swimming or fishing. Visitors can enjoy a variety of outdoor recreations areas, parks and golf courses nearby. Several shopping malls, entertainment venues, restaurants and cocktail lounges are in the vicinity; some can be found within walking distance.
Driving Through a Quarry in Culpeper Virginia
This drive takes you through the Quarry in Culpeper, VA. It begins at the top, then goes down into the pit where fossilized dinosaur tracks were discovered in 1989. The quarry is opened to ticketed guests once a year to see the tracks.
For more information about the Dino-Walk, visit the Museum of Culpeper History at culpepermuseum.com/
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In 1989, evidence of the existence of these great beasts was unearthed at Culpeper Stone Company, a quarry near the town of Culpeper. What was discovered was, at the time, the largest concentration of dinosaur tracks on Earth.
Nearly 5,000 tracks, most from the “Anchisauripus Parallellus,” a four-legged carnivore (and an ancestor of the infamous raptor), have been unearthed in Culpeper! The Museum is fortunate to have one set of these tracks, which are featured as a hands-on component in The Triassic Gallery!
Mapping Virginia's Slave Dwellings: Preserving Black History with Street View
In the Virginia state record, only 1% of documented historical sites are categorized as having any African-American historical significance. It’s easy to visit historic sites from the era of slavery and forget the enslaved men, women and children who built and maintained these places. Using Street View, Virginia Humanities has been collecting panoramic imagery of slave dwellings across the state for everyone to see. They hope these images will add to a more inclusive history of Virginia and helps us remember that enslaved peoples were integral to our country’s founding.
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Culpeper Minutemen
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Culpeper Minutemen
The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1765 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.
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Historical Sites of Virginia
Here are some clips of a recent trip to historical sites in Virginia. We had a great time. If you get a chance try to visit some of these sites.
Liberty Hall 360 Project Merges Kean's Past, Present, and Future
Kean students are collaborating on a virtual reality project that brings to life a historic wedding from 1774 that took place at Liberty Hall on Kean's campus in Union. Watch and see how history comes to life.
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Epic Fail: Union Bank in Culpeper, VA
It appears this elevator is keyed off by the black access control system kind of by the button. At the point of the video, I thought that access control system was for the door however there is a white one mounted on the door frame for that. Seems like a cool elevator.
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Exchange Hotel and Civil War Hospital: Gordonsville, Virginia
Exchange Hotel and Civil War Hospital: Gordonsville, Virginia
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Captain George Flavel House Museum HD
On our honeymoon, we toured this really cool Queen Anne style home in Astoria, Oregon. It was the home of the late Captain George Flavel, an important citizen of Astoria back in the late 1800's. He was a notorious bar pilot on the Columbia River and a prominent businessman that greatly boosted Astoria's economy. This home was built as his retirement home by German architect Carl Leick. It has survived the tests of time and war, and fortunately still stands in the middle of downtown Astoria on gorgeous grounds. This house was incredible- full of intricate details and history. Take a walk through the past with us.
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Library of Congress Tunnel
Walking to the Library of Congress the U.S. Capital Building via the underground tunnel.
Suffragists in Virginia History
Trace the steps of these trailblazing women through Richmond, Virginia where they fought for woman’s suffrage: Anna Bodeker, Adele Goodman Clark, Lila Meade Valentine, and Maggie L. Walker.
This video is part of the American Evolution's Virginia to America series focusing on travels all over Virginia highlighting the people, places, and stories that have shaped 400 years of America’s history. americanevolution2019.com
Produced in collaboration with Orange Frame.
Maggie Walker photos courtesy of National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site.
Interview with Adele Clark by Winston Broadfoot, February 28, 1964 interview G-0014-2, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A special thanks to The Valentine, Library of Virginia, and Virginia Museum of History and Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) for assisting in curating images and filming artifacts.
Fluvanna Lynching Victim Remembered in National Museum - PKG - 3/27/18
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What Makes Danville Virginia Home
Danville is a very historical charming city steeped in tradition. If you love beautiful homes in small southern towns like we do, then you are going to want to watch this!
A special thanks to Wilkins & Co Realtors, Mayor Alonzo Jones, Chief of Police Scott Booth, and The Boys and Girls Club of Danville!
Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill is a historic home located at Orange, Orange County, Virginia. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a combination of the Italianate and Greek Revival styles. A Second Empire style mansard roof was added in 1891. The front facade features a central, one-story, one-bay porch with a balustraded deck above and balustraded decks with the same scroll-sawn balusters across the front. The historic floor plan is a double-pile center-passage plan with two interior chimneys serving four fireplaces on each floor. The house was moved to a new location, 150 feet away from its original site, when threatened with demolition in 2003. Also on the property is a small, one-story, single-bay, 19th-century contributing shed.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
By Lorraine Eaton
The tale began 10 years ago with a stately home inconveniently located on the access route to a new middle school. The town bought the house for more than $300,000. A demolition was planned.
The history-loving residents of Orange balked. An auction was scheduled for the structure and a parcel of land to move it to.
Enter the Ayres’s - he a real estate developer and son of the owner of a house moving company; she an experienced auctioneer, who will fire off a few bid calls upon request.
On auction day, there were plenty of onlookers, but only one bidder. Troy Ayers noticed that he was the only one signed up for the absolute auction, which had no minimum bid. He bought the place for $1.
The couple moved the house to a hill overlooking town, a great spot for a B&B, the Ayres’s thought. But they had no notion of how difficult restoring a building to registry and public-use standards can be.
Everything original, down to the hinges and doorknobs, had to be dismantled, recorded, packed, stored and then reinstalled.
Every move, Troy said, was under the watchful eye of a historic-preservation inspector.
Then, at the end of the project, after hundreds of thousands of dollars in meticulous renovations, the project faltered.
At issue was the upstairs staircase railing. To obtain an occupancy permit, the Ayres’s planned to replace the original with a taller one to conform to safety codes. Without it, the inspector would not issue a permit.
The old railing already had been tossed when the Ayres’s learned that replacing it would jeopardize historic registry designations, which they considered critical to marketing the inn.
After massive cash outlays and six stress-filled years, the Ayres’s were stunned. Their goal seemed impossible.
Then, miraculously, a workman uncovered the original balusters in a scrap heap. They were rebuilt to suit both inspectors.
We have been told by the Ayres’s (owners) that objects seem to move in rooms when no one is around. Civil war soldiers have been seen in the back of the property and into the wooded area back there. We did capture some EVP’s in the house but did not capture anything outside the short time we were there. The video clip called Chestnut Hill; we started down in the basement where picked up an evp, at first we thought “you beckoned” but now maybe it says “wrap it up”. Then we go up on the 3rd floor in the Pink Serendipity room, we had our recorders going, the Ovilus going, and Debbie was asking questions while recording with the SLS, at 1:45 in you hear “get out” was picked up on the digital recorder but we didn’t hear it with our own ears. Also at 2:07 right as Debbie is starting to talk you can hear a female voice say “see you”, at 2:22, we picked up a faint “yell”, then around 2:33 appears that someone is trying to talk over Debbie, at 2:38 it sounds like “oh, you’re right” or something like that. The other video called Sunday morning, we were in the Bridal Suite, and we had the SLS camera running, digital recorder, and doing the flashlight experiment.
Tennessee Historical Farm
United Country presents this beautiful historical home and farm along with 86 Acres. For contact info stay tuned until the end of the video.
George Washington (1732-1799) President of the USA
Figures in History: George Washington (1732-1799)
George Washington was born on 22 February 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, into a family of prosperous farmers.
He began his career as a professional surveyor in 1749 at the age of 17 and was quickly appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia, his first public office.
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Chatham Plantation in Virginia
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