Fairfax Line
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title:
Fairfax Line
text:
The Fairfax Line was a surveyor's line run in 1746 to establish the limits of the "Northern Neck land grant" in colonial Virginia. The land grant, first contrived in 1649, encompassed all lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, an area of 5,282,000 acres (21,380 km). By 1719, the lands had been inherited by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781). By that time the question of the boundaries of the designated lands had also become highly contentious. In 1745 it was
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wiki
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Surveyor's line
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_Line
date created:
2008-06-08T03:21:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:42:42Z
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