Historic Sites
Culpeper, Virginia has an array of notable Revolutionary War sites sprinkled throughout its rolling landscape. Below you will find some of the most relevant historic sites that played a part in creating America’s Independence.
*Please note not all sites are open to the public. Please be sure to confirm before visiting the sites noted below.
A – Major Philip Clayton’s Old Field where the Culpeper Minute Battalion first mustered in 1775.
B – General Edward Stevens – Lt. Col. Culpeper Minutemen – Fairview homesite.
C – General Edward Stevens burial at Masonic Cemetery: cenotaph Lt. David Jameson & Col. John Jameson (state marker)
D – Henry Pendleton – Burgess and first four Virginia Conventions (home and cemetery in a farm field).
E – Col. John Green – Led Regular Rifle Company of Culpeper Minutemen – Liberty Hall (museum marker 2025).
F – Birkett Davenport – 5th Virginia Convention – Hilly Farm – House of Delegates (homesite and cemetery still exist).
G – Col. George Slaughter, Capt. Gabriel Jones, Robert Slaughter Jr. – Lafayette – LaGrange (museum marker 2024).
H – Henry Field Jr. – Burgess and first four Virginia Conventions – Culpeper Minutemen paymaster (Field Cem. still exist).
I – Col. Gabriel Long – Bloomsbury on Stevensburg Road (marker in Yowell Park).
J – French Strother – 5th Virginia Convention – Ashland Farm – House of Delegates (homesite, buried in Fredericksburg).
K – Col. John Jameson – Captain Culpeper Minutemen – Jameson home (marker at Culpeper Town offices) burial site F.
L – First Culpeper County Courthouse, site of 1765 Stamp Tax revolt and Culpeper Resolves protest 1774.
M – Gen. Anthony Wayne quartered here at Zimmerman’s Tavern June 8, 1781, Lafayette passed here on June 6, 1781.
N – Gen. Lafayette’s troops quartered here at Great Fork Church on June 4, 1781, at LaGrange (G) on June 5, 1781.
O – Gen. Anthony Wayne’s troops crossed here at Norman’s Ford on way to meet Lafayette on June 8, 1781.
P – Raccoon Ford – Lafayette crossed here on June 6, 1781 and Wayne crossed here on June 9, 1781.
Q – Ely’s Ford – Lafayette crossed here on June 4, 1781 to move into Culpeper County.
R – Patriots of Color in the Revolution – Spencer Slaughter, & Francis, Thomas, and William Bunday (Hist Marker 2025)
Road to Revolution
The Road to Revolution publication guides you on a tour of people, places and things that are a part of Culpeper’s legacy of the war for independence. It is suggested that you begin your tour by visiting the Museum of Culpeper History at 113 Commerce Street and the Burgandine House at 803 S. Main Street for an overview of Culpeper’s history from pre-historic times through the present day.