Experiencing Culpeper’s history through its landmarks INS TITUTIONS


To understand how something


changes, one must start at the beginning. In Culpeper, that means hitting the history books and turning to the Museum of Culpeper History. In the museum’s extensive collection,


you can read about Culpeper’s oldest intact residence, which predates the offi cial founding of the county in 1749. T e historic Burgandine House was recently estimated to have been built around 1700 — a century older than previously thought. T e small plank wood dwelling is located on Main Street by the Culpeper Economic Development Center. T e house underwent additions and


subsequent reductions over the centuries until it was donated to the Town of Culpeper in 1966. In the 1990s, the town restored the house to preserve its stature as a historical landmark, and the touch-ups have persisted ever since.


of churches. With some congregations dating back to the founding of America, the churches of Culpeper are landmarks of its evolution.


1776 in 2024 Little Fork Episcopal Church in


St. Stephens’ Episcopal Church choir from the mid-1920s.


Now, local residents David Reeves and


Susan Williams volunteer as caretakers of the property, and they are assisted by community members with fundraising and overseeing preservation eff orts. Most of Culpeper County’s oldest institutions, however, come in the form


Rixeyville fi rst stood as a wooden building where people formed a congregation in 1730 in what they called the “Chapel of Ease.” Fires claimed the building twice before it was rebuilt with bricks in 1776. Soldiers in the Civil War picked apart the pews, pulpit and much of the furniture for fi rewood during the particularly brutal winter of 1863-1864. Periods of neglect followed, but the church endured. T e community fundraised for and


supervised restorations at Little Fork from 1976 to 1979. For everything the old building gave, it got back tenfold from the community and donors nationwide.


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