Upperville Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Upperville is a linear village stretched along U.S. Route 50 for about one mile in Fauquier County, Virginia. Joseph Carr laid it out in 1797 as Carrtown, with commerce at the west end and homes at the east, and the General Assembly established it as a town in 1818. Nearly all of the original fifty lots faced the highway, and that pattern survives because the town has seen no major expansion since the Civil War. Of some seventy-five buildings, at least fifty date from the nineteenth century, most in a modest country Federal style of stone, brick or frame. Landmarks include the 1832 United Methodist Church, the Carr houses, Doctor Smith's stone house and the mid-1950s Trinity Episcopal Church complex. Surrounding estates have kept strip development away. The town is also known for the country's oldest horse show, founded in 1853, and for its place in Virginia's hunt country, which together with its intact planning and architecture led to its listing.