Rapidan Historic District is a national historic district located at Rapidan, in Culpeper County and Orange County, Virginia. It encompasses 34 contributing buildings in the crossroads village of Rapidan. They include three churches, a post office, a commercial building, one meeting hall, two railroad depots, twenty-one residences, and six outbuildings. Notable buildings include the Emmanuel Episcopal Church (1874), "Annandale" (c. 1825), the Rapidan Trading Post (1903), Rapidan Post Office (1914), Lower Rapidan Baptist Church (1914), Rapidan Passenger Depot (c. 1890), and the Peyton-Grhby House (c. 1890). Also located in the district is the separately listed Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
^David Edwards and Staff (February 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rapidan Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map
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