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On Oct. 4 the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District will have been in operation for 50 years. The District is comprised of the counties of Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Rappahannock and Orange.
In 1935, Congress unanimously passed the first soil and water conservation law. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged all governors to propose legislation allowing landowners to create soil and water conservation districts in 1937. Ry 1938, Virginia had passed the Soil Conservation Districts Law. It defined a soil and water conservation district as a political subdivision of the state responsible for conservation work within its boundaries.
Organized under the authority of the Virginia Soil Conservation Districts Act, Senate Bill 38, passed by the 1938 session of the Virginia General Assembly, the District was organized in Culpeper County on Oct. 4, 1939. Orange County was added on June 10, 1940, Madison County on Sept. 30, 1940, Greene County on Aug. 26, 1941 and Rappahannock County was included on Jan. 6, 1942 making a total of 1,496 square miles or 957,440 acres covered by the district.
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