White Post Historic District

White Post is a small crossroads village in southwestern Clarke County, Virginia, where two roads meet at a white-painted octagonal wood post eleven feet tall. The post gave the town its name and has been replaced several times. The district has twenty-eight buildings, including late 19th-century frame and stucco houses, two churches, a parish hall, a 1913 post office and three abandoned commercial structures. Five modern houses do not contribute to its character. The most prominent building is Bishop Meade Memorial Church, a large brick Gothic Revival church dedicated in 1875, with corbelled cornices and pinnacled pilasters. The village grew around a marker Lord Fairfax set up in the 1760s to direct travelers to Greenway Court. It is also known as the birthplace of Bishop William Meade, a leader of the Episcopal Church's revival in Virginia. A log house of about 1784 is the only surviving 18th-century building. Together the buildings preserve the rural character and small scale of a Valley crossroads town.