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Culpeper Battlefields State Park

2022 establishments in VirginiaProtected areas established in 2022Protected areas of Culpeper County, VirginiaState parks of Virginia

Culpeper Battlefields State Park is a state park currently under development in Culpeper County, Virginia. The park was authorized for creation by Governor Glenn Youngkin on 21 June 2022 and is scheduled to officially open on 1 July 2024, although many of the sites were previously protected and are now open to the public. It will be the first state park in Culpeper County and the northern Virginia Piedmont region. The park will feature several disconnected battlefields where major engagements took place during the American Civil War, with primary focus on the Cedar Mountain battlefield, just south of Culpeper, and Brandy Station Battlefield, which took place northeast of the town. In addition, parts of the battlefields at Kelly's Ford, Rappahannock Station, and the Union winter quarters on Hansbrough's Ridge near Stevensburg will be included in the park.

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Pitts Theatre, also known as the State Theatre after 1970, is a historic movie theater located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in 1937–1938, and is a concrete block structure faced in brick in the Art Deco style. The building consists of a symmetrical three-bay façade, with a central theater entrance flanked by storefront retail spaces. The façade features a stepped massing that recedes from the entrance and storefronts. The interior has a sophisticated circulation system, which enabled balcony patrons, which were initially African-American, and white patrons to enter the theater separately to separate spaces; the main balcony and auditorium, respectively. The theater closed in 1992.The theater was reopened in May 2013 with a performance by Lyle Lovett, after renovation supported by federal and state historic tax credits. The newly renovated performing arts venue's rebirth would be short lived, however. In an open letter to the Culpeper community on September 14, 2016, the State Theatre Foundation's board of directors announced that it would be ceasing operations immediately and refunding any ticket holders for upcoming performances. The letter did not give any specifics as to what would eventually become of the downtown icon, only stating "...to diligently work to decide the best course of action for the facility..." The building again sits closed to the public, as it once had for nearly twenty years, on Culpeper's Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.