Front view of the John and Sarah Stacy
(GIBBONS) ADAMS plantation house. This home is approximately 230 years old and is still in use today. The home is on Hwy 724 outside of Delaplane.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

A partial view of the Ashby plantation known originally as "Belmont" and later, after the departure of the Ashby's, was known as "Greenland". Taken from the Ashby Graveyard on a hill in one of the fields. Our thanks to George Chester, Jr. for providing the original name of the plantation.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

The Ashby Inn (an 1829 residence) in Paris, now a famous Bed and Breakfast Inn with a restaurant.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

An overview of the Ashby Cemetery located on the Ashby plantation "Greenland" off Hwy 724. The monument was erected in memory of the "Ashby Family of Fauquier County."

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

Home of Jacob Holtzclaw, the Immigrant. Built around 1728, along the Snickersville Turnpike, just outside of Warrenton, on Holtzclaw Road.

Contributed by Barbara Price

"Belle Grove" plantation on Hwy 17 between Delaplane and Paris. The older portion of the main house was built about 1780 by John Edmonds and the main portions about 1812 by Isaac Settle. The house was received as her dowery by Isaac's daughter Betsey when she married Lewis Edmonds.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

Located west of Middleburg. Originally the home of Charles Chinn and wife Scythia Davis. Built around 1766. Charles was the son of Rawleigh Chinn and Margaret Ball Downman.

Contributed by Janean Ray

Another view.

Contributed by Janean Ray

On Lee Street in Warrenton. Built in 1834 for Robert Brent. Home from 1866 to 1901 to Confederate General William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, chief of the Black Horse Cavalry, whose reunions were held there.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

On Main Street in Warrenton. Also known as the Spilman-Mosby House. This classic Italian-villa style house was completed in 1861 for Fauquier County judge Edward M. Spilman. James Keith, who later served as president of the Virginia State Court of Appeals, acquired it in 1869. Renowned Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby purchased the dwelling in 1875.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Located in backyard of Bittersweet, above.

Contributed by Janean Ray

Contributed by Jim Borland

In Warrenton Cemetery. For 600 fallen Confederate soldiers who died in hospitals following the Battles of First and Second Manassas who were disinterred from their unmarked graves and reinterred beneath this granite monument.

Photographed 2 Dec 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

Photographed and contributed by E. K. Frederick

Photographed and contributed by E. K. Frederick

Built in 1847 as a private residence, this three story Greek Revival structure has been a private club since 1904.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Fleetwood Roller Mill located on Hwy 17 between Paris and Delaplane in Fauquier County, VA. The stonewall in the foreground is representative of the walls/fences throughout the county as well as the beautiful landscape.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

The first simple wooden church was begun in 1868 and called Emmanuel Chapel. That building was destroyed by fire in 1908, and the present church was built in 1909.

Photographed 11 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Photographed and contributed by E. K. Frederick

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Photographed and contributed by E. K. Frederick

The white building used to be the old grocery store and next to it is the church and then the old school house.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

Photographed and contributed by E. K. Frederick

Entrance to "Moreland" and also the site of another Adams Graveyard in Fauquier County, VA.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

Fauquier County landscape from "Moreland" plantation entrance

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

Farm with unknown signifance to Eubank family

Photographed c1930's and Contributed by Virginia Bush

Contributed by Jim Borland

A random rubble stone dwelling built circa 1830. It is at Rector's Crossroads, renamed Artoka. Here on June 10, 1863, Colonel John Singleton Mosby officially formed Company A of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry known as Mosby's Rangers. On June 23, 1863, J.E.B. Stuart was headquartered here when he received orders from Robert E. Lee concerning the cavalry's route in what became the Gettysburg Campaign.

Photographed 14 Sep 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

This 1-1/2 story, 4-bay, gable-roofed log house has a central stone chimney and may have been constructed in two sections. It has two front doors and the left 2-bay portion is at a lower level than the right 2-bay portion. The walls are covered in German-lap siding and the roof in standing-seam metal. It is a Registered Virginia Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photographed 14 Sep 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Constructed in 1893 by Asa Rector. The gable-end, frame store with an intact central storefront entrance is a Registered Virginia Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photographed 14 Sep 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

View across the rolling Fauquier County hills towards Delaplane from the dormer window of the Ashby Inn in Paris, VA.

Photographed and contributed by Sandy Onbey

James Thomas Setler, his wife and children in front of their home in Orlean, Virginia, Fauquier County, VA. The house survives.

Contributed by Michele Garrett

Current Photo

Contributed by Michele Garrett

In Upperville. The present church is the third building on the site, the first having been built in 1842 and the second in 1895. The first service in the new church was held in 1960.

Photographed 18 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz

The 1876 structure on Culpeper Street contained the first elevator in Warrenton.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Built in 1855 to replace an earlier 1850 church destroyed by tornado. It served as a hospital during the Civil War; patients on the sanctuary floor, horses in the basement.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

The site of a Methodist Church but converted in 1870 to the Warrenton Town Hall and Fire Department until 1977 when turned into shops.

Photographed 1 Feb 2009 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Original portion built about 1755 by Charles Chinn as a tenant house. 1801 sold to William Hale and bequeathed to his daughter Frances who added second story. Today is known as Piedmont Vineyards

Contributed by Janean Ray

In Delaplane. Some of Mosby's Rangers are buried in the cemetery.

Photographed 18 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz