when the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was built through Culpeper County, the county seat was called "Fairfax"
Source: University of North Carolina, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina (Jacob Wells, George E. Sherman, c.1855)
Lake Pelham, named after Confederate artillery officer John Pelham, was renamed Lake Culpeper in 2022
Source: US Geological Survey (USGS), Culpeper East VA (1:24,000 scale topographic quadrangle, 2022)
Culpeper in 1878
Source: David Rumsey Map Collection, OW Gray & Son Atlas - Gray's New Map of Culpeper, Virginia (1878)