Morgantown Historic District is a national

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located near

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Fauquier County, Virginia Fauquier is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,972. The county seat is Warrenton. Fauquier County is in Northern Virginia and is a part of the Washington metropolitan area. History In 16 ...

. It encompasses 7 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in the Reconstruction-era African-American rural village of Morgantown. The district contains four dwellings, the Mount Nebo Baptist Church (1902), an abandoned Morgantown School (c. 1891), a meat house, the ruins of an outbuilding, and a cemetery. an
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in 2004.

References

Historic districts in Fauquier County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Fauquier County, Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{FauquierCountyVA-NRHP-stub