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Waveland is a large farm located in Fauquier County’s Piedmont Valley and surrounded entirely by functioning agricultural land. The 1835 Greek Revival–style mansion originally featured a three-bay-wide, rectangular plan, until an 1859 two-bay-deep rear addition was built to make the dwelling T-shaped. John Augustine Washington III, the last member of the nation’s premier family to own Mount Vernon, bought Waveland in 1858. That same year, he turned over guardianship of Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, inspiring a monumental historic preservation movement. At Waveland, Washington installed a technologically-advanced water-delivery system that was supposedly modeled on one at the White House. This Fauquier County estate is located in the Carter’s Run Rural Historic District.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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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
