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hundred-year period has maintained an average population level of only 7,000.

In 1975, the Culpeper County Comprehensive Plan described how the county’s villages were dying: the soil was not able to cope with intense development without costly central water systems. Small stores, neighborhood schools, and other needed village facilities were closing. Schools were shifting to the Town of Culpeper where there were water mains and sewer lines.

In rural areas, homes were being built along roadways, linear fashion, further destroying the existing villages with their traditional

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