To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Revolutionary War, Lafayette was escorted on a two-year tour of the United States. During that tour he visited Warrenton where he was fetted at a banquet attended by 5,000 Fauquier County residents.

Warrenton’s native son, Richard Norris Brooke, was a prolific artist. Famous for his portrayals of local African-American life, and finally landscapes. Exhibit displays several of Norris’s most recognized works and information about the life of the artist.

Exhibit covers Mosby’s life from his military career to the civilian positions he held until the end of his life.

Warrenton Supply

Dr. Anderson’s Dental Office

Madison Barber Shop

Jeffries Drug Store

Ullman Department Store

Artifacts and stories about the men of Fauquier’s Black Horse Troop in the Civil War.

Artifacts from local Indian tribes including stone tools, arrowheads, tomahawk, and grindng stones.

This New Testament was a gift from John Singleton Mosby to Alexander
Dixon Payne in August 1874, when the two officers were involved in an argument over local politics. Mosby felt insulted by Payne’s attitude toward him and Payne challenged Mosby to a duel using squirrel rifles at 40 paces. Mosby attempted to reduce Payne’s anger by giving him this New Testament, but local lore relates that Payne accepted the Good Book, but placed it inside a desk drawer in his office rather than read it for spiritual comfort.

Cooler heads prevailed, however, and the potentially tragic affair ended without so much as a snap of a trigger from the squirrel rifles.

Known as Weatherman, National TV Personality, Actor, Narrator, Clown, Comedian and Author. These all describe Fauquier resident Willard Scott. The exhibit includes Willard’s original Ronald MacDonald shoes!