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Over a broad stretch of Culpeper and western Fauquier counties, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening Gen. Robert E. Lee’s move to Gettysburg, fought the Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton in the Battle of Brandy Station. Though the outcome of this June 9, 1863 Civil War battle was indecisive, the engagement was the largest cavalry battle ever fought in North America. At the time of its listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1989, the Brandy Station Battlefield Historic District consisted of two discontiguous geographical areas that contained the significant sites and structures that played an important role in the Battle of Brandy Station. The Brandy Station and Stevensburg units were named for the village that was contained within them. The Brandy Station Battlefield was removed from the Virginia Landmarks Register by legislative directive in 1993.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
