Buffett tribute band plays Thursday at the Depot

The name Zann Miner, born Elizabeth Ann Nelson in Brownsville, Texas, is synonymous with Culpeper history.

A pictorial account of downtown Culpeper wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the boyhood home of famed Confederate General A.P. Hill, a Culpeper native

The Masonic building on East Davis Street looks much like it did when it was built more than a century ago.

Town of Culpeper native Elliott DeJarnette has practiced law for 30 years on Main Street.

The old Virginia Hotel retains its three levels and porches in this photo from the early 1900s.

When M.E. Rudy first opened Culpeper Motor Corporation 52 years ago, the large majority of his business - 90 percent to be exact - came from farmers.

M.E. Rudy, founder and longtime owner of Culpeper Motor Corporation on Bus. 29, was just 23 when this picture was taken of him in Warrenton in 1950.
Notice the Navy blues.

Two-term Virginia Governor William “Extra Billy” Smith (1846-49 and 1864-65) lived in this mansion on North Main Street.

State Theatre is supposed to reopen in 2009.

In its nearly 260-year history, Culpeper County has had three courthouses.

A center of commerce, culture and transportation, the Culpeper Depot has changed form four times through the ages.

This old building no longer stands at the corner of South Main and Culpeper streets, but it shows up on the March, 1886 Sanborn Insurance Map - the earliest map of its kind commissioned in Culpeper.

New York newspaper artist Edwin Forbes sketched this picture of “Dick, the cook” near Culpeper Court House - today’s town of Culpeper - in September 1863.

What’s blue and red with a big smiling chef all over it? It’s the Baby Jim’s Snack Bar sign, North Main Street’s most recognizable steel and neon landmark.

Collis Jenkins III, proprietor of Baby Jim’s Snack Bar on North Main Street, was just 2-years-old when this photo with mom was taken at home.

West Davis Street, then and now, was and is a place of law.

Today, the bottom floor of the blue building at 118 North Main St. sits vacant.

For 75 years, the Lord Culpeper Hotel has stood strong, at three stories tall, in the center of downtown.