Augusta County, Virginia
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Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surroun
The Augusta County Courthouse in March 2005
Augusta Stone Church built in 1749
View of Augusta County countryside across the Shenandoah Valley toward the Blue Ridge Mountains
I-64 and I-81 in Augusta County
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II. She never became queen consort, as Frederick p
Augusta County, Virginia
…independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county seat is Verona. The county was created in 1738 from part of Orange County and was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. It was originally a huge area, but many of its parts were carved out to form other counties and several states until the current borders were finalized…
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1750
Princess Augusta as a child
One of the first portraits of Augusta by William Hogarth, 1736–1738
Augusta and her family in 1739, by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Notably, the man standing to her right is not her husband, but William Irby, 1st Baron Boston.