Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Remington, VA

Remington is a small incorporated town in Fauquier County, Virginia, less than a mile northeast of the Culpeper County line, near U.S. Routes 15, 17, and 29 and Virginia State Route 28.

The town covers only about 0.2 square miles, all of it land.

The area was settled in the early to mid-19th century and was known from 1839 as Millview, in reference to a mill along the nearby Rappahannock River.

The community was renamed Bowenville around 1850, and again renamed Rappahannock Station after the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was completed through the town in 1852.

Before the railroad era, Remington was a commercial port on the Rappahannock Canal in the mid-19th century, but the canal failed financially and its operations were abandoned.

In 1890 the town took the name Remington — one account says in honor of a well-liked railroad conductor named Captain Remington — and it was officially chartered in March 1890.

Remington was the site of the First Battle of Rappahannock Station and the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station during the Civil War, the Battle of Brandy Station was fought just across the Rappahannock River, and Confederate raider Col. John S. Mosby made raids in the town.

The Remington Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Three large fires, in 1895, 1919, and 1925, destroyed several of the town's commercial buildings, yet its dwellings, churches, and stores still show Remington much as it appeared in the early 20th century.

The population of Remington was 626 at the 2020 census, up from 598 in 2010, when the town had 238 households.