Washington Va is a town in Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States. It is famous for being the oldest of the 28 communities by the name of Washington in the United States. The town was surveyed by George Washington himself in July of 1749. The population was 183 at the 2000 census. It is also the county seat of Rappahannock County. It is nicknamed Little Washington because of its proximity to Washington, D.C., which lies only 70 miles east.The Town of Washington was formerly the location of a trading post utilized by frontier families and members of the resident Manahoac tribe. All of the territory in and around the current town was under the ownership of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Camer...

  ... on. In 1748, Lord Fairfax met a 16 year-old George Washington, a distant relative of his. Being impressed by his character, Fairfax employed Washington to survey his lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. On 24 July 1749, the town layout as it appears today was surveyed and platted by Washington with the assistance of his chainmen John Lonem and Edward Corder as part of his service to Fairfax. The village was officially established as a Town by the Virginia General Assembly on December 14, 1795 when it gained the requisite population of 200. Records from an 1835 gazetteer state that the town contained one academy, fifty-five dwellings, four mercantile stores, two taverns, one house of worship, twenty-seven trade shops, and two large flour mills