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viewed as the “primary village” for Culpeper County. The Village Center at Clevenger’s Comer and its immediate surrounding area may grow to have a population of 9,000 people.

Traditional sequence

Rappahannock County has always stuck with the traditional sequence and meaning of settlements: crossroads, hamlet, village, town, and city.

A crossroads had a few houses; a hamlet had a cluster of houses, but too small to have a church; a village had one or more churches and some shops; a town had churches, shops, and a market.

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