Rapidan Historic District is a national historic district located at Rapidan, in

Culpeper County Culpeper County is a county located along the borderlands of the northern and central region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 52,552. Its county seat and only incorporated community is C ...

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 The Rapidan Passenger Depot is located at the junction of VA 614, VA 615, and VA 673 in Rapidan, Virginia, United States. History In January 1848 three petitions were submitted to the Virginia General Assembly from businessmen in Culpeper County ...

(c. 1890), and the Peyton-Grhby House (c. 1890). Also located in the district is the separately listed

Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church Waddell Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Rapidan, Orange County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a Carpenter Gothic frame building covered with board-and-batten siding. It features a three-s ...

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Historic districts in Orange County, Virginia Victorian architecture in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Historic districts in Culpeper County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Culpeper County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{OrangeCountyVA-NRHP-stub