Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Upperville, VA

Upperville is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) straddling Fauquier and Loudoun Counties in Northern Virginia, along U.S. Route 50 about fifty miles from downtown Washington, D.C.

Upperville was founded in the 1790s along Pantherskin Creek and was originally named Carrstown for its first settler, Josephus Carr, before an 1819 act of the Virginia General Assembly renamed it Upperville.

Upperville first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted just 178 residents in the village itself.

The Upperville Historic District is a Virginia Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are nearby Blue Ridge Farm, Greengarden Farm, Oakley and Rose Hill Farm.

Upperville lies eight miles west of Middleburg in Virginia's famous Piedmont horse country, home to prominent Thoroughbred breeding farms and grand country estates.

The Upperville Colt & Horse Show, conceived by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany and first held in 1853, remains the oldest horse show of its kind in America.

Henry T. Oxnard built his Blue Ridge Farm horse-breeding operation at Upperville in 1903; Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson bought it in 1928, and the Grayson family still owns the property.

Paul Mellon's prestigious Rokeby Farm is near Upperville, and in the 1950s Mellon donated the money to build the village's Trinity Episcopal Church, which remains the center of the community's social life.

Mellon's wife Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon, who designed the White House Rose Garden, established her botanical library at Oak Spring near Upperville.

Cisco Systems co-founder Sandy Lerner owns and operates a farm in Upperville, continuing the village's modern association with wealthy estate owners.