“The most disastrous [day] this division ever passed through.”

“In my opinion, property protected and researched, Buckland has the unique potential to teach generations to come much about American values, especially the role of free enterprise, in the development and growth of the U.S. during its founding years between the American Revolution and the Civil War Era. Too often, as at Jamestown, no architectural evidence and few documents survive to help tell significant pieces of the story as it does at Buckland.”

“The rout was the most complete that any cavalry has ever suffered during this war.”

“Visited by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, Lafayette and Lee, the town of Buckland remains a living relic of an early Virginia mill town. According to Carter Hudgins, Chair, Department of History and American Studies at Mary Washington College, There is no place quite like Buckland. That is not because there were not places like it. There were scores, but they were long ago overwhelmed by neglect or growth and, as a result, Buckland is a unique portal into a time.that gave shape to…America ‘s singular capacity for entrepreneurial success. The wealth of surviving material could and should become the center for an important re-evaluation of how Virginia and how by extension, the new nation embraced and shaped a future made possible by Republican Government… Early American towns were centered on commerce. Buckland and other rural Virginia towns represented the earliest capitalistic American landscape.”