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After the Revolutionary War, Buckland’s location on the banks of wide Broad Run kept it a vibrant community with mills and a quarry. The 1820s Fauquier-Alexandria Turnpike extended to Warrenton, using the newest technology in road construction — a paving process that created Virginia’s first macadam road.
On Oct. 19, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart tricked Union soldiers with a feint maneuver before ambushing the surprised cavalry and artillery units. Federal soldiers fled five miles down the straight turnpike all the way to Warrenton, turning the
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