It included " all the land in Virginia between the Rappahannock and the Potomac rivers ", an old grant from King Charles II which overlapped and included Frederick County.

* Rappahannock County, Virginia-southeast

Stafford County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and just across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg.

It is bounded on the north by the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, the independent city of Fredericksburg ( all of which were part of the area's early history ), and the counties of Stafford and Culpeper ; on the south by the North Anna River and its impoundment, Lake Anna, and by the counties of Hanover and Louisa ; on the west by Orange County and Culpeper County ; and on the east by Caroline County.

Rappahannock County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

A first Rappahannock County was founded 1656 from part of Lancaster County, and became extinct in 1692 when it was separated to form Essex County and Richmond County.

The currently existing Rappahannock County was founded by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1833, based on the growing population's need to have better access to a county seat.

Rappahannock county was named for the river that separates it from Fauquier County.

The Rappahannock River forms the northeastern boundary and separates Rappahannock County from Fauquier County.

Rappahannock County is bounded on the southeast by Culpeper County and on the southwest by Madison County.

The Rappahannock County Public Schools School District is located in Washington, VA and includes two schools that serve 921 students county-wide in grades PK through 12.

The summits of the following mountains are located within Rappahannock County:

U. S. Route 211 as it passes through Rappahannock County ; the Blue Ridge Mountains can be seen in the distance

The County is bounded by the Rappahannock River to the north, by the Chesapeake Bay to the east, by the Piankatank River and Dragon Run Swamp to the southwest, and by Essex County to the northwest.

In 1847, after being a member of the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), William " Little Billy " Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Southampton County began teaching at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County.

The plaintiffs, Mildred Loving ( née Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of African and Rappahannock Native American descent, July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008 )

Fitzhugh and his wife, Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh ( 1747 – 1805 ), built Chatham Manor on property across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia, completing it in 1771 after 3 years of construction.

During his first term, 1702 – 1711, he began to acquire large tracts of land for himself in the Rappahannock River region of Virginia.

Essex County was established in 1692 from Rappahannock County.

89, divided Virginia into three judicial districts: the District of Virginia, which included the counties west of the Tidewater and south of the Rappahannock River ; the District of Norfolk, which included the Tidewater counties south of the Rappahannock ; and the District of Potomac, which included the counties north and east of the Rappahannock as well as Maryland counties along the Potomac.

The U. S. Highways follow a four-lane divided highway past Rediviva to the Rappahannock County seat of Washington.

89, divided Virginia into three judicial districts: the District of Virginia, which included the counties west of the Tidewater and south of the Rappahannock River ; the District of Norfolk, which included the Tidewater counties south of the Rappahannock ; and the District of Potomac, which included the counties north and east of the Rappahannock as well as Maryland counties along the Potomac.

Many of Virginia's rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, which create three peninsulas in the bay.

Under similar circumstances, previous Union commanders had chosen to withdraw behind the Rappahannock, but Grant instead ordered Meade to move around Lee's right flank and seize the important crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House to the southeast, hoping that by interposing his army between Lee and Richmond, he could lure the Confederates into another battle on a more favorable field.

Later, it was a stop on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad called Rappahannock Station, but the O & A was eventually absorbed into the Norfolk Southern system, and the Remington spur fell into disuse.

On September 22, 1864, Union forces executed six of Mosby's men who had been captured out of uniform in Front Royal, Virginia ; a seventh ( captured, according to Mosby's subsequent letter to Sheridan, " by a Colonel Powell on a plundering expedition into Rappahannock ") was reported by Mosby to have suffered a similar fate.

In 1716 he led the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition up the Rappahannock River valley and across the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap into the Shenandoah Valley to expedite settlement.

Mahone worked as a teacher at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County, Virginia, beginning in 1848, but was actively seeking an entry into civil engineering.

Despite the presence of southern troops during the early years of the war the northern troops succeeded in pushing the Confederate line south of the Rappahannock River and eventually into Fredericksburg.

This surprise movement forced Pope's Army of Virginia into an abrupt retreat from his defensive line along the Rappahannock River.

Hearing that Sedgwick had been repulsed, Hooker abandoned the entire campaign, recrossing on the night of May 5 into May 6 to the north bank of the Rappahannock River back towards the Federal camp at Falmouth.

Early on December 12 infantry from his corps attempted to support the Union engineers ' efforts to lay pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River and into the town.

At the conclusion of the Gettysburg Campaign, the Army of the Potomac pursued Robert E. Lee into Virginia, the XII Corps joining in the pursuit, and pushing forward until it reached the Rappahannock.

Under similar circumstances, previous Union commanders had chosen to withdraw behind the Rappahannock, but Grant instead ordered Meade to move around Lee's right flank and seize the important crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House to the southeast, hoping that by interposing his army between Lee and Richmond, he could lure the Confederates into another battle on a more favorable field.

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Barksdale's Brigade defended the waterfront of the city from Union forces attempting to cross the Rappahannock River, sniping at infantry and engineer forces from buildings that had been turned into rubble by Union artillery.

In 1719, Fairfax came into possession of the vast Culpeper family estates in Virginia's Northern Neck Proprietary between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers.

It is bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River across which lie Caroline and Essex Counties ; on the east by Westmoreland County and on the west by Stafford County.

US 360 enters Essex County at Miller's Tavern where the highway crosses the watershed divide between the York River tributaries and the Rappahannock River.

Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him.

Then he would rapidly shift his army southeast and cross the Rappahannock River to Fredericksburg, hoping that Robert E. Lee would sit still, unclear as to Burnside's intentions, while the Union Army made a rapid movement against Richmond, south along the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad from Fredericksburg.

For the first time, he revealed his intentions to transport the Army of the Potomac by ship to Urbanna, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River, outflanking the Confederate forces near Washington, and proceeding overland to capture Richmond.

On January 12, 1862, McClellan revealed his intentions to transport the Army of the Potomac by ship to Urbanna, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River, outflanking the Confederate forces near Washington, and proceeding overland to capture Richmond.

Lincoln finally replaced McClellan with Major General Ambrose Burnside, who hoped to cross the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia in order to get between Lee and Richmond.

That District consisted of King George County, Lancaster County, Northumberland County, Richmond County, Stafford County and Westmoreland County, which cover the area between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers.

Such early communities in Virginia included what we now know as Alexandria on the Potomac River, Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock River, Richmond and Lynchburg on the James River and Petersburg on the Appomattox River.

The Department of the Rappahannock was formed April 4, 1862, from the original I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, to control the area east of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Potomac River, the Fredricksburg and Richmond Rail Road and the District of Columbia expanded to include the area between the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers.

After a series of bloody but inconclusive battles later known as the Overland Campaign, the Army of the Potomac had pushed the Army of Northern Virginia south from the Rapidan River and Rappahannock River line to the outskirts of Richmond.

The assault on northern Virginia failed in its objective of seizing Richmond, though MacArthur did succeed in crossing the Rappahannock.

When the English first explored the James River in May 1607, they learned that the James River Monacan ( along with their northern Mannahoac allies on the Rappahannock River ) controlled the area between the Fall line in Richmond and the Blue Ridge Mountains, who were hostile to the Powhatan confederacy.