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Montross is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and serves as the county seat of Westmoreland County in the historic Northern Neck.

The town's slogan is "return to the village."

The Old Westmoreland Court House in Montross was the site of a June 22, 1774 meeting where a resolution introduced by Richard Henry Lee was adopted to aid Boston after the British blockade of its port.

After the 1775 Gunpowder Incident, the Westmoreland Committee of Safety convened at the Montross courthouse on May 23, 1775, and passed a resolution denouncing Royal Governor Lord Dunmore.

The 2020 census counted 333 people in Montross, down from 384 in 2010; Census Bureau survey estimates have put the town's population higher, at roughly 553 people in about 252 households.

Westmoreland High School, formerly Washington and Lee High School, is located in the town and serves students from across Westmoreland County.

The Westmoreland County Museum in Montross, founded in 1941, is the oldest museum in the Northern Neck and holds a portrait of Sir William Pitt painted by Charles Willson Peale that county patriots commissioned in 1768.

Montross is near the George Washington Birthplace National Monument, a 550-acre park on the former Popes Creek Plantation where George Washington was born.

Stratford Hall, the Lee family plantation established by Thomas Lee in the 1730s, stands near Montross; it was the birthplace of Robert E. Lee in 1807 and of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Westmoreland State Park on the Potomac River near Montross is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, offers about 6 miles of trails, and is known for fossil hunting for ancient shark teeth along the river.