Culpeper in Culpeper County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Culpeper Minute Men

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

1. Culpeper Minute Men Marker

Inscription. Virginia's third Revolutionary Convention, which met in the summer of 1775 as royal authority was collapsing in the colony, passed an ordinance establishing 16 units of minute men for the colony's defense. Recruits from Culpeper, Fauquier, and Orange Counties - known as the Culpeper Minute Men - assembled in a field half a mile south of here in Sept. Among them was Lt. John Marshall, later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The battalion arrives in Williamsburg in Oct., and five companies helped defeat the British at the Battle of Great Bridge south of Norfolk on 9 Dec. Relieved by regular troops and released from active duty by the spring of 1776, many minute men joined the Continental Army.

Erected 2024 by Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number J-10.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical month for this entry is September 1775.

Location. 38° 28.802′ N, 78° 0.318′ W. Marker is in Culpeper, Virginia, in Culpeper County. It is on Sperryville Pike (U.S. 522) 0.1 miles west of Virginia Avenue/Colonel Jameson Boulevard, on the left when traveling west. Marker is in the front yard of the house at 721 Sperryville Pike. There

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is no pull-off. Parking is in the cemetery across the road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 721 Sperryville Pike, Culpeper VA 22701, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area

and in Northern Virginia.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: John S. Barbour’s Birthplace (approx. 0.2 miles away); Who Were The Culpeper Minute-Men? (approx. 0.4 miles away); Culpeper Minute Battalion (approx. 0.4 miles away); What Did The Minute-Men Accomplish? (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Revolutionary War (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Civil War (approx. 0.4 miles away); Major Gabriel Long (approx. half a mile away); Yowell Meadow Park (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Culpeper.

Other markers no longer nearby. Culpeper Minute Men (has been replaced with this marker); a different marker also named The Revolutionary War (was approx. 0.4 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); a different marker also named The Civil War (was approx. 0.4 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Related marker. Click here for another marker that is related to this marker. Old Marker At This Location also titled "Culpeper Minute Men".

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

2. Culpeper Minute Men Marker

Culpeper Minute Men Monument - Yowell Meadow Park/Lakeview Subdivision image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

3. Culpeper Minute Men Monument - Yowell Meadow Park/Lakeview Subdivision

Culpeper has multiple monuments to the Minute Men, all erected in different period. This one is accessible on a knoll between the forested portion of the Yowell Meadow Park Trail and the Lakeview subidivision's nature trail off Monument Lane.

Culpeper Minute Men Marker - Yowell Meadow Park image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

4. Culpeper Minute Men Marker - Yowell Meadow Park

This is the newest of Culpeper's three Minute Men monuments, and was erected just east of the park's basketball courts by the north bridge over Mountain Run.

Culpeper Minute Men Marker - Old Orange Road & Main Street image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

5. Culpeper Minute Men Marker - Old Orange Road & Main Street

This monument, the oldest of Culpeper's three to the Minute Men, stands just south of the Main Street (Business Rt. 29) and Old Orange Road (Routes 3 & 15) intersection coming into town from the south, on the same median as Gilmore's Auto Service & Gas Station.

General Edward Stevens - Leader of Culpeper's Minute Men image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, October 25, 2025

6. General Edward Stevens - Leader of Culpeper's Minute Men

Edward Stevens was the second-in-command of the Culpeper Minute Battalion and commander of the regiment from Culpeper County proper. He fought at Great Bridge and later rose to the rank of General, seeing action at Brandywine, Germantown, Camden, Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown. Stevens held land north of town, with a farm residence (known as "Fairview") in the general location of the 1850s house at 133 West Fairview Road. He gave land to the Culpeper Masons for a Masonic Cemetery, and his family plot (shown) on that farm was incorporated into their burial ground over time. The General's grave is the second from right, with a 1975 tablet affixed at the foot of the gravestone. Stevens later had a house in town at the corner of Main and Davis streets which was substantially expanded and modified in multiple renovation periods, and is today best known as A.P. Hill's Boyhood Home. Stevens Street east of the city offices is named in his honor, as well.

Credits. This page was last revised on November 13, 2025. It was originally submitted on November 12, 2025, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. This page has been viewed 64 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on November 12, 2025, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.