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Spotsylvania County, Virginia

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17historic places

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1721formed

140,032pop. 2020

32cemeteries

8CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Massaponax.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Andrews Tavern	Glenora	Building	1976
Fairview	Fredericksburg	Building	1993
Fall Hill	Fredericksburg	Building	1973
Kenmore	Spotsylvania	Building	1993
La Vista	Guinea	Building	1997
La Vue	Fredericksburg	Building	1994
Lansdowne	Fredericksburg	Building	2013
Massaponax Baptist Church	Massaponax	Building	1991
Oakley	Spotsylvania	Building	2002
Prospect Hill	Mineral	Building	1982
Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation	Fredericksburg	Structure	1973
Spotsylvania Court House Historic District	Spotsylvania	District	1983
St. Julien	Fredericksburg	Building	1975
Stirling	Massaponax	Building	1989
Sylvania Plant Historic District	Fredericksburg	District	2020
Tubal Furnace Archeological Site	Chancellor	Site	1982
Walnut Grove	Spotsylvania	Building	2004

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Spotsylvania was formed in 1721 (1721-05-01) from Essex, King, Queen, King William.

SPOTSYLVANIA created from ESSEX, KING AND QUEEN, and KING WILLIAM.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Spotsylvania County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,252	13,002	14,254	15,161	16,076	14,828	9,239	10,571	9,905	11,920	13,819	34,435	90,395	140,032

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park	National Military Park	12.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

32 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 32 of 32 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beech Grove Cemetery	38.36757	-77.66139
Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery	38.09305	-77.53499
Bethel Christian Church Cemetery	38.10929	-77.77416
Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery	38.10124	-77.53499
Branch Fork Baptist Church Cemetery	38.14891	-77.8351
Confederate Cemetery	38.2027	-77.58315
Craigs Church Baptist Church Cemetery	38.22179	-77.82471
Elys Ford Baptist Church Cemetery	38.35489	-77.67677
Fairview Cemetery	38.30707	-77.64138
Forest Hill Cemetery	38.23748	-77.42472
Good Hope Baptist Church Cemetery	38.11271	-77.76916
Goshen Baptist Cemetery	38.22685	-77.62684
Grace Methodist Church Cemetery	38.27392	-77.7569
Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery	38.14656	-77.71252
Laurel Hill Memorial Park	38.31639	-77.68583
Little Mine Road Cemetery	38.15736	-77.73777
Massaponax Baptist Church Cemetery	38.19401	-77.5097
Mine Road Cemetery	38.16779	-77.71946
Mount Hermon Baptist Church Cemetery	38.14634	-77.86874
Mount Hope Baptist Church Cemetery	38.28695	-77.5616
Olivet United Methodist Church Cemetery	38.16961	-77.81012
Piney Branch Baptist Cemetery	38.25582	-77.63624
Second New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery	38.20292	-77.46919
Shady Grove Cemetery	38.22179	-77.7161
Sunset Memorial Gardens	38.2693	-77.49499
Tabernacle United Methodist Church Cemetery	38.28624	-77.58804
Travelers Rest Baptist Church Cemetery	38.14664	-77.60093
True Light Cemetery	38.17014	-77.80583
Wallers Baptist Church Cemetery	38.07152	-77.66415
Wilderness Cemetery	38.31061	-77.67021
Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery	38.29402	-77.69527
Zion Methodist Church Cemetery	38.19379	-77.58668

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Spotsylvania Court House	20,471	4.3 km	VA048
Chancellorsville	21,863	15.2 km	VA032
Wilderness	13,173	15.7 km	VA046
Salem Church	7,947	17.9 km	VA033
Fredericksburg	11,920	18.5 km	VA034
Fredericksburg	15,262	20.4 km	VA028
Mine Run	15,507	21.3 km	VA044
Morton'S Ford	5,662	30.2 km	VA045

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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