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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
On Dec. 14, 1796, as George Washington was concluding his second term as the first President of the United States of America, by an act of the Virginia General Assembly the Town of Washington was officially recognized.
It was this act which is being memorialized in the Town of Washington's Bicentennial Celebration this Saturday.
The Rappahannock Historical Society has a copy of the act of the assembly. Records at this valuable county resource and the help of Katherine Knuepfer in gathering material has been essential to the writing of this report.
Washington was included in the act along with 12 other Virginia towns. Apparently to be recognized and organized by an act of the General Assembly under laws then current the town had to have a population of at least "two hundred souls."
The law also provided for the appointment of trustees to manage the town. , The law provided for a town of 25 acres, the property of John Calvert, James Jett Jr., and James Wheeler, in the County of Culpeper. The trustees approved by the act in the assembly were "John Strother, James Green, Edward Pendleton, Charles Browning and John Jett, gentletnen."
It was their responsibility to see that the town was "laid off into lots of half an acre
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