The Washington times., 1933-06-24
FINE HOMES AND HUNT CLUBS
FOUND IN PROSPEROUS
HISTORIC COUNTY

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be home attending to their jobs
there. 1t as at this battle that
Gen. Thomas J. Jackson won his
sobriquet of "Stonewall" Jackson.
The rout of the Union army
with it's following of politicians,
civilians, women and wagon
trains, made it the most pic
turesque rout in American his
tory, exceeding that Of General
Braddock and + redcoats.
Thirteen months later the
second battle of Bull Run was
fought, also ending in a Confed-
crate victory, although the Union
forces at that time held the
Henry farm. But Jackson and
his "Foot Cavalry" slipped around
Pope's right and attacked his
rear. Lee and Longstreet arrived
to reinforce Jackson. The Union
Army fell back on OK Hill, now
called Chantilly, and the Con-
federate attack there was re-
pulsed.
Hospital Now Inn
A little beyond the bridge is the
old stone house used as hospital
during the two battles and now
converted into an excellent inn.
The proprietor, G. H. Ayres, has
made study of the battles and
has many relics picked up on the
field. The effects of shot and shell
can be seen on the walls Of the
building. State and regimental
monuments mark out the lines
of the opposing armies, and the
course of the battle is easily fol-
lowed.
Leaving the battlefield, the
party is soon passing through
Gainesville. Soon the village Of
Buckland is reach and Prince Will
liam county left behind for Fau-
quier county.
Almost at the moment the
vehicles wheels pass on to the
macadam and gravel road that be-
gins at the Fauquier county line,
the scenery changes. Large breed
ing farms and country homes,
showplaces of the wealthy, are
on either side of the road. The
eight miles into Warrenton
through the low hills of the Bull
Run Mountains, are famous for
the beauty of the farms and
homes that line it.
Fauquier is one of the north
Piedmont counties where the
breeding of fine horses, hunt
clubs and horse racing have as
sumed national Importance. Here.
love of blooded horses in an an
cestral inheritance.
Many of the early settlers in
Fauquier, named for one of the
most intelligent and best liked of
the royal governors, were OF
cavalier origin. Slaves worked
the farms while the masters
family lived at their ease, rode,
danced, hunted and raced horses,
Many Hunt Clubs
These people left their stamp
on the country. OF the go ma
tionally recognized hunt clubs in
the United States ten are in
Virginia and half of them are in
Fauquier. The clubs are the War
renton, Casanova, Piedmont
Orange County Hunt at The
Plains, and the Junior Hunt. or
Pony Club.
1t is said of the youngsters In
Fauquier that they begin riding
when they are three; when they
are eight, pluck, courage and
Providence aiding, they take
fences and their 20Oth ribbon. Al
Is, they are disqualified from
any more pony shows and must
enter the lists with the grown
ups.
A word of Fauquier's history
It was once a part of the vast
Fairfax estate which then en-
braced several colonial counties
It was formed into its present
limits in 1859.
Many of it's early parish records
1T is a well-knoWn fact that
the most accurate and best
county histories were kept by the
ministers-have been lost through
stupidity and carelessness of early