History is woven into the fabric of everyday life in the Fredericksburg area starting with the birth of our nation to the war that almost tore it apart. Here, George Washington grew up and, according to legend, threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. Patrick Henry met with Thomas Jefferson and other patriots at local taverns and you can walk those same streets today in Old Town. In fact, Old Town Fredericksburg is home to the nation’s largest collection of carefully restored 18th century homes and structures.

The Fredericksburg area, including the land on which Fawn Lake now stands, had more battles fought here during the civil war than anywhere else in the nation. The scene of the Battle of the Wilderness, now a National Park, borders Fawn Lake. This explains the significance of some of Fawn Lake’s street names like Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet and Baldy Ewell Way, another Confederate general who played amajor role in the Battle of the Wilderness.

Once the cental hub of colonial commerce and the movement of independence…later the Confederacy’s bloody line of defense against the army of the North…today Fredericksburg is ranked “One of the Best Small Towns in America.”

And, with Washington D.C., Richmond, Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown all within a short drive, you’ll find that Fawn Lake is ideally located right in the center of one of the most historically dense areas in the entire country. Here the history runs so deep you could spend a lifetime trying to go to every historic landmark within a two hour radius and still barely scratch the surface.