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Culpeper’s Road to War 1765 – 1775 Driving Tour

#1. Colonial Courthouse Site
#2. Baptist Church Site
#3. Nathaniel Pendleton – Redwood Plantation
#4. Brikett Davenport – Hilly Farm Plantation
#5. Henry Pendleton
#6. John Field
#7. Henry Field Jr
#8. French Strother
# 9. Yowell Meadow Park
  • Directions#1. Colonial Courthouse Site

    (1765 Stamp protest & 1774 Resolves) and Culpeper

  • Directions#2. Baptist Church Site

    Site of the colonial jail, both on East Davis Street.

  • Directions#3. Nathaniel Pendleton – Redwood Plantation

    Nathaniel Pendleton – Redwood Plantation – Culpeper Justice who led the 1765 Stamp Protest

  • Directions#4. Brikett Davenport – Hilly Farm Plantation

    Brikett Davenport – Hilly Farm Plantation – Culpeper’s Representative for the 5th Virginia Convention – 1776 House of Delegates

  • Directions#5. Henry Pendleton

    Henry Pendleton – Served in 4 of 5 Revolutionary Conventions and owned Plantation on Hazel River

  • Directions#6. John Field

    John Field – (Burgess and Colonel, died at Point Pleasant) homesite area.

  • Directions#7. Henry Field Jr

    Culpeper Burgess who served in 4 of 5 Virginia Conventions.

  • Directions#8. French Strother

    Served in 5th Virginia Convention. Strother lived at Ashland Plantation.

  • Directions# 9. Yowell Meadow Park

    Muster site of Culpeper Minutemen 1775 on Major Philip Clayton’s Old Field.