Find out how much Fredericksburg Real Estate is worth

Known as the community “Where History Never Gets Old,” Fredericksburg, Virginia, has been a center for historic events since Colonial times. More recently, it has seen spillover growth caused by the booming technology industry of neighboring Northern Virginia.

A nearly 300 years old community of tidy neighborhoods with historic mansions and new real estate developments, Fredericksburg today covers 10 square miles and offers its residents peaceful living and excellent public schools.

The historic section of the city spreads over 40 square blocks and contains more than 350 buildings built before 1870. Among local landmarks are George Washington's boyhood home, Ferry Farm, and the law firm where James Monroe practiced law. Old Town Fredericksburg appropriately bills itself as “Eighteen blocks of shopping and the rest is history.”

Plenty of modern conveniences like shopping and dinning are available to residents. The community also offers numerous parks where residents can fish, boat, hike, golf, and play organized sports at various ball courts.

Real estate in Fredericksburg is widely varied. The average property in the area is a modest, older single-family home of two bedrooms. Historic homes and smaller units in apartment buildings or row house developments are also available. Prices range mostly between $170,000 and $330,000, but many properties sell for sell and more, depending on size, location, structure, and age.

Located on the Rappahannock River near the head of navigation at the fall line, Fredericksburg developed as the frontier of colonial Virginia shifted west out of the coastal plain. The town was founded in 1728.

Today, annual events celebrate the city's past and present through celebrations for George Washington's birthday, as well as that of Hugh Mercer, Colonial patriot and physician, and Corrine Melcher, who donated her home, gallery and gardens to the citizens of Fredericksburg.

Many historic homes are open for special tours at certain times of the year. Civil War battles are commemorated with reenactments and family picnics. The “Fredericksburg Area Civil War Weekend: Lest We Forget” is among the largest Civil War observances.

Thousands of visitors from around the nation and abroad flock to Fredericksburg each year to visit sites like the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County National Military Park, which encompasses the sites of four of the bloodiest Civil War battles. The Fredericksburg National Cemetery holds many of the nearby 100,000 men who died in the battles in and around Fredericksburg, but many soldiers are in unmarked graves around the park. The land within the park's 8,400 acres changed hands seven times during the Civil War.

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