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Delaplane, Virginia
Delaplane is an unincorporated community in northern Fauquier County, Virginia, located approximately due west of Washington, D.C. Delaplane is situated along U.S. Route 17 and Interstate 66; bordering Upperville, Virginia to the north, Hume, Virginia to the south, Paris, Virginia to the west, and Rectortown, Virginia to the east. Delaplane, Virginia has a ZIP Code of 20144.
==History==
Located in the heart of Virginia's famous Piedmont Hunt Country, Delaplane was originally known as Piedmont Station, and renamed in honor of W. E. Delaplane,〔(Delaplane Historic District NRHP nomination form ) prepared by Maral Kalbian and Margaret Peters. July 30, 2003. Section 8, p.17. Retrieved 2011-09-13.〕 a prominent Ohio businessman who generously restored operations at the local general store which had faltered in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Previously in 1861 General Stonewall Jackson had marched his troops from Winchester to the Piedmont Station (Delaplane) train depot, where they loaded onto rail cars headed for the First Battle of Manassas. This marked the first time a railroad had been used to move troops into battle. Delaplane has also encompassed some of North America's oldest fox hunting territory, and from 1932 to 1945 Delaplane's Cobbler Mountain range hosted many of General George S. Patton's fabled escapades with his Cobbler Fox Hounds club. Patton was Master of fox hounds until his military transfer to Hawaii in 1935, and the club was disbanded ten years later upon receiving news of his untimely death in Heidelberg, Germany. Today Piedmont Fox Hounds based in The Plains, the oldest fox hunting club in the United States, still hunts Delaplane's rustic, stone wall lined terrain; as do Orange County Hunt based in Middleburg and (Old Dominion Hounds ). In addition to fox hunting, Delaplane's close proximity to Washington, D.C. juxtaposed with a remarkably well preserved 19th century agricultural heritage, gave rise to numerous and expansive country estates; many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places such as Mount Bleak House, Moreland, and Oak Hill, an early home of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.〔(Journey through Hallowed Ground – Oak Hill ) at nps.gov. Accessed 2011-09-03.〕 In 1975 local resident and philanthropist Paul Mellon donated a 1,132-acre tract of land in Delaplane to the Commonwealth of Virginia creating Sky Meadows State Park which hosts the Delaplane Strawberry Festival every Memorial Day. The tract's previous owner, the late Sir Robert Hadow, was a Consul General from Great Britain who originally named the parcel Skye Farm after the island in Scotland which the area reminded him of. Later in 1991, Paul Mellon presented an additional 462-acre adjoining tract as a gift to the park. This tract, renamed the Lost Mountain Bridle Trail Area, was originally surveyed by George Washington and later purchased by Washington from his client Lord Fairfax. More recently, in his memoirs Virginia Senator John Warner fondly recalls childhood summers spent working at Hill Crest Farm in Delaplane, while on break from St. Albans School in nearby Washington, D.C.
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