Little Fork Church - Parish Affiliation

Parish Affiliation

It is attached to St. Mark’s Parish that, like most early parishes in Virginia, changed its suzerainty and geographic range as counties became established by partitioning earlier counties due to population growth or shifts. Its creation and history are:

  • St. Mark’s Parish formed from St. George’s Parish 1730-31
  • St. Thomas’s Parish in Orange County partitioned from St. Mark’s Parish in 1740
  • Culpeper County formed out of Orange County in 1748

Little Fork was a chapel of ease for the parish, and thus was never the lower, or main, parish church. It is the only remaining colonial church in the county.

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