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Background Information. The County has 21 historic
areas that are of State and National significance. The
Final Report for Survey Update of Historic properties in
Fauquier County, Virginia (March 20, 2002) indicated
that all were pre-qualified and recommended for designation
on the Virginia Landmarks and National Register of Historic
Places.
As a result
of the referenced report, the County has pursued this major
project with both Board of Supervisors and private
contributions. As a result of our County program, the
following nine communities have the completed documentation
and have fulfilled the Department of Historic Resources’
(DHR) public hearing process, and their historic areas are
officially on both the National Register and Virginia
Landmarks listings: Ashville, Atoka, Casanova, Delaplane,
Markham, Morgantown, New Baltimore, Rectortown, and the Town
of Remington.
Marshall
& Paris DHR Public Hearings. Maral Kalbian, the
County’s architectural historian consultant, has completed
the detailed surveys and essential applications for both the
Marshall and Paris Historic District nominations so defined
under State and Federal definitions and criteria. This
district has no connection or bearing on the Fauquier
County Zoning Ordinance’s Historic Area Overlay District
(Part 3, Section 4-300). This designation absolutely
has no connection with the Architectural Review Board (ARB)
oversight. Being listed on the Virginia Landmarks and
National Register of Historic Places only conveys an honor
and recognition of a property’s historic significance; it
does not place any constraints on the property owner. Being
listed on either register does not restrict or prevent an
owner from altering, tearing down or otherwise disposing of
the property.
The
mandatory public hearing for the proposed Marshall and Paris
Historic District nominations were both conducted on October
23, 2006, at the Marshall Community Center. David Edwards
from Virginia Department of Historic Resources advertised
the public hearings in local newspapers and provided letter
notices to all property owners within the proposed historic
area limits and adjoining property owners. Both David
Edwards and Maral Kalbian presented the survey findings and
responded to questions raised. Twenty-eight people attended
the hearing; no one spoke in opposition.
The
Department of Historic Resources staff will present these
findings to the Commonwealth Board of Historic Resources in
December of 2006. The Virginia Landmarks designation will
be acted upon in that month, while the National Register
designation takes approximately 3-months.
Marshall
Historic District Summary Information. Marshall was
originally known as Salem until the 1880s. The original
town was laid out on a 30-acre parcel in the late 1790s and
subdivided into 52 half-acre lots. The proposed historic
area is shown on the attached map, including the
African-American neighborhood of Rosstown which was
developed on the eastern edge of Marshall. This primarily
linear district encompasses approximately 99 acres that are
historically and visually associated with the community’s
growth and development as a crossroads in the late 1700s and
a railroad and commercial center in the mid and late 1800s.
The district includes 139 properties with 217 contributing
dwellings, churches, commercial buildings and outbuildings.
Copies of
the entire survey, application and photographs are available
for public inspection upon request in the Planning Division
at 10 Hotel Street (3rd Floor), in the Warren
Green Building in Warrenton. It can also be viewed on the
Virginia Department of Historic Resources webpage
(
http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_A-F.htm
).
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