Culpeper Minute Men

Culpeper Minute Men is a Virginia historical marker in Culpeper County, dedicated 2024.

Rte. 522, 450 feet west of traffic circle

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Virginia’s third Revolutionary Convention, which met in the summer of 1775 as royal authority was collapsing in the colony, passed an ordinance establishing 16 units of minute men for the colony’s defense. Recruits from Culpeper, Fauquier, and Orange Counties—known as the Culpeper Minute Men—assembled in a field half a mile south of here in Sept. Among them was Lt. John Marshall, later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The battalion arrived in Williamsburg in Oct., and five companies helped defeat the British at the Battle of Great Bridge south of Norfolk on 9 Dec. Relieved by regular troops and released from active duty by the spring of 1776, many Minute Men joined the Continental Army.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1776 · Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia containing ... Maryland. (Northern Section) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1794 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Maryland (1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Maryland (Carey, 1822) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering the location of Culpeper Minute Men, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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