White Post

White Post, VA

White Post, VA is an unincorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, USA.  White Post is located at the crossroads of White Post and Berrys Ferry Roads off Lord Fairfax Highway.

In the 1730s, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the major landowner in the lower Shenandoah Valley through an inheritance from his mother Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, settled here and built his "Greenway Court" manor home.  His plantation was unusual in an area settled mostly by German and Scots-Irish subsistence farmers.

When you ride thorough the town of White Post, you'll see the actual "white post" in the center of town which was surveyed and placed by George Washington.