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Popular local legend has it that the Fauquier of our Country was the father of the town of Washington as well.
According to the Rappahannock Historical Society’s phamphlet, “A Walking Tour of Washington, Virginia,” George Washington, then a tall, lanky red-haired youth of 17, had taken the job of surveyor for the newly formed frontier county of Culpeper in 1749 and as his first assignment, laid out a new town 20 miles away, north across rolling hills and streams.
In his journal, Washington wrote that “Accompanied by John Lonem and Edward Corder, 1 journeyed one half day in a north western direction from Fairfax (Culpeper) and in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Culpeper County (Rappahannock), 1 laid off a town."
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