Culpeper, Virginia Culpeper, Virginia Downtown Culpeper Downtown Culpeper Official seal of Culpeper, Virginia County Culpeper Culpeper (formerly Fairfax) is the only incorporated town in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Culpeper County. Culpeper is positioned at 38 28 19 N 77 59 57 W (38.471915, 77.999168). After forming Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1748, the Virginia House of Burgesses voted to establish the Town of Fairfax on February 22, 1759.
The initial plan of the town called for ten blocks, which form the core of Culpeper's downtown region today.
In 1795, the town received a postal service under the name Culpeper Court House, although most maps continued to show the Fairfax name.
The confusion resulting from the difference in official and postal names, coupled with the existence of Fairfax Court House and Fairfax Station postal services in Fairfax County, was finally resolved when the Virginia Assembly formally retitled the town Culpeper in 1869 (Acts, 1869 1870, chapter 118, page 154).
During the American Revolutionary War, the Culpeper Minutemen, a pro-Independence militia, formed in the town of Culpeper.
During the Civil War, Culpeper was a crossroads for a number of armies marching through central Virginia, with both Union and Confederate forces occupying the town by turn.
The downtown Culpeper Theater Culpeper Presbyterian Church Post Office in Culpeper Culpeper began to expanded dramatically in the 1980s, becoming a "bedroom community" of more densely populated Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.
A burgeoning number of inhabitants of the town and county of Culpeper once lived and continue to work in those areas.
In 2011, East Davis Street in downtown Culpeper was titled as a 2011 America's Great Place by the American Planning Association. Downtown Culpeper was one of the communities most affected by the August 23, 2011 Virginia earthquake.
Senator Mark Warner. In 2014 the Museum of Culpeper History moved into the town's historic train depot. Climate data for Culpeper, Virginia Culpeper Amtrak station, Visitor Center and Museum of Culpeper History Culpeper is served by U.S.
Amtrak operates a station in Culpeper, station code CLP.
Nearly 9,000 train travelers in 2010 used Culpeper station, which joins to New Orleans, Chicago, and Boston via the Crescent, Cardinal, and Northeast Regional lines.
The town of Culpeper is also serviced by Virginia Regional Transit.
Culpeper Regional Airport serves the region with a 5000 foot runway.
National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper Richardson Elementary (18370 Simms Dr., Culpeper Va.
Emerald Hill Elementary (11245 Rixeyville Road, Culpeper VA 22701) Farmington Elementary (500 Sunset Lane, Culpeper VA 22701) Pearl Sample Elementary (18480 Simms Drive, Culpeper VA 22701) Sycamore Park Elementary (451 Radio Lane, Culpeper, Virginia 22701) Yowell Elementary (701 Yowell Drive, Culpeper, VA 22701) Culpeper Middle School (14300 Achievement Drive, Culpeper VA 22701) Culpeper, VA 22701) Culpeper County High School (14240 Achievement Drive, Culpeper Va.
Eastern View High School (16332 Cyclone Way, Culpeper, VA 22701) Culpeper County Public Schools Robert Young Button, Attorney General of Virginia (1962-1970) and Virginia State Senator (1945-1961) Culpeper was the locale of the chief encampment for the Army of the Potomac amid the winter of 1863-64 amid the Civil War.
It was from Culpeper that General Ulysses S.
Johnson began his whistle-stop campaign of the South by giving a speech at Culpeper.
In the 1992 movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, the character Carl (played by River Phoenix) asks the character Whistler (played by David Strathairn) to use a decryption device to hack into the Federal Reserve Transfer Node in Culpeper, stating that "900 billion [dollars] a day goes through there." The 1998 movie Hush, starring Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Hal Holbrook, was partially filmed in downtown Culpeper and showcased a several small-town businesses.
The producers of the movie did not mention Culpeper or its inhabitants in the credits of the movie.
In a 2007 tv episode of The Sopranos, titled Remember When, the characters Tony Soprano and Paulie Walnuts pull off of Interstate 95 on their way to Miami to visit a hotel brothel they remember patronizing years past in Culpeper.
Throughout the presidential election year of 2008, BBC Newsnight correspondent Matt Frei produced a series of tv segments in Culpeper, characterizing the town/city as an exemplar of small town America.
Frei interviewed town/city and county inhabitants about their political opinions and thoughts through the major election contests and announced live updates to the BBC on Election Night from the Raven's Nest Coffee House in Culpeper. Frei also returned to Culpeper in 2009 to take the pulse of the town one year after Barack Obama's election as president. The 2011 movie 25 Hill, produced by and starring Corbin Bernsen, had its world premiere screening in Culpeper.
In the tv series Homeland, Culpeper was a part of the fictional congressional precinct represented by the character Nicholas Brody.
Brody mentions visiting with constituents in Culpeper in the 2012 episode "State of Independence." In a 2013 tv episode of Revolution, titled Ghosts, the characters Miles Matheson and Nora Clayton travel to Culpeper to recruit an old colleague titled Jim Hudson and fight off a militia squad that invades the town.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Culpeper town, Virginia".
"Davis Street Culpeper, Virginia".
"EARTHQUAKE IN CULPEPER: The damage done".
Star-Exponent; Culpeper, Virginia.
Museum of Culpeper History web site "Average Weather for Culpeper, VA - Temperature and Precipitation".
Star-Exponent; Culpeper, Virginia.
"Newsnight in Culpeper (Part 1)".
"Newsnight in Culpeper (Part 2)".
"Newsnight in Culpeper (Part 3)".
"Newsnight in Culpeper (Part 4)".
Town of Culpeper official website Culpeper Regional Hospital Culpeper Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Culpeper County, Virginia, United States Virginia Towns in Virginia
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