White Post, Virginia
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| White Post | |
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| — Unincorporated town — | |
 White Post
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| Coordinates: 39°3′25″N 78°6′13″W / 39.05694°N 78.10361°WCoordinates: 39°3′25″N 78°6′13″W / 39.05694°N 78.10361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Clarke |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 22663 |
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White Post is an unincorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, USA. White Post is located at the crossroads of White Post and Berrys Ferry Roads off Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. Route 340).
In the 1730s, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the major landowner in the lower Shenandoah Valley through an inheritance from his mother Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, settled here and built his "Greenway Court" manor home.[1] His plantation was unusual in an area settled mostly by ethnic German and Scots-Irish subsistence farmers, many of them recent immigrants.
[edit] References
- ^ Brown, Stuart E. (1965). "Virginia Baron: The Story of Thomas 6th Lord Fairfax, pp. 35-123, 148-9". Berryville, Virginia: Chesapeake Book Company.
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