Preserving the natural & historic resources of the Brandy Station area of Culpeper County, VA
Brandy Station Foundation
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Upcoming Events
Make Your Reservations Now! Friday April 11, 2025
BRANDY STATION FOUNDATION ANNUAL MEETING & DINNER
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The Brandy Station Foundation Annual Dinner & Business Meeting begins at 6PM on Friday April 11, 2025 at the Country Club of Culpeper at 2100 Country Club Road in Culpeper. At the meeting, the membership will vote on the Board of Directors for the year 2025-2026 presented by the Nominating Committee and any other matters to be brought before the Membership.
Please remember that in order to vote at the annual meeting, you must be a BSF member in good standing and have paid your dues on the date of or before the meeting.
Our speaker is Daniel Davis on "The Hottest Fire I Was Ever In: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863.”
Dan is the Senior Education Manager at the American Battlefield Trust. He is a former seasonal historian at Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Site and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and the author or co-author of numerous books and articles related to the Civil War. His work can be found in the Emerging Civil War Series, Blue & Gray Magazine and Hallowed Ground.
Please make reservations early as seating is limited to fifty. The buffet dinner cost is $40 per attendee.
Please make reservations by March 28, 2025. Make reservations here or by emailing the Brandy Station Foundation at bsfgh1863@gmail.com and paying at the event.
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 10AM-1PM
Park Day at the Graffiti House, 19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station
This is an annual hands-on volunteer event to help Civil War and other historic sites shine their brightest. The Brandy Station Foundation will hold its Park Day at the Graffiti House. If you can help that day, please call the Foundation at 540-317-5581 or email bsfgh1863@gmail.com. Projects include mulching, replacing boards on walkways, moving rocks, inside cleaning, and laying a brick walkway.
Thanks for participating and volunteering to enhance the Graffiti House!
Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 1 PM.
Brandy Station Foundation Lecture Series
Special Guest Speakers – Reo Hatfield II & Ron McCoy:
“The Hatfields and the McCoys – From Civil War to Family Feud”
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Brandy Station Volunteer Fire Department Hall, 19601 Church Rd, Brandy Station, VA 22714
Brandy Station, VA – The names of speakers Reo Hatfield II and Ron McCoy are instantly recognizable because of the world-famous feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys. However, in 2003, Reo and Ron signed the historic Hatfield-McCoy truce, which was broadcast live on national television. That document would be a formal truce ending all hostilities, implied, inferred, and real between the Hatfields and the McCoys. This free talk will include the Hatfield family’s military service during the Civil War and the years-long feud between the families.
We look forward to hearing the true story behind the family feud. Please come prepared to hear answers to many of your questions. There will be a book signing after the event.
Reo B. Hatfield II is the President and CEO of Prince Michel Vineyard, Brewery, and Winery in Leon, Virginia. He is a former Vice Mayor, City Councilman and Planning Commissioner member of Waynesboro, VA, as well as a retired Chief of Police of Waynesboro. Hatfield also served for two years in Korea with the U.S. Army as a Sergeant and is a private pilot. Hatfield is best known nationally for the historic Hatfield-McCoy Truce, which officially ended the infamous Hatfield and McCoy feud. On June 14, 2003, in a televised event on The CBS Early Show, Reo Hatfield, along with Ron McCoy and Bo McCoy, signed the truce live before an estimated 3.5 million viewers. The signing symbolized a new era of unity, demonstrating that even one of the world’s most famous feuding families could come together as one American family.Ron McCoy is the great-great-great-grandson of Randolph McCoy, patriarch of the family at the time of the feud. He helped organize the first national reunion of the Hatfields and McCoys in 2000. In 2003, he was one of the principal signers of the historic Hatfield-McCoy truce. He is the author of Reunion, a book which chronicles the reconciliation of the Hatfields and McCoys and one man’s journey to discover his family heritage in the shadow of America’s most famous feud.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Descendants Day at the Graffiti House
19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station
Descendants Day at the Graffiti House will be a day devoted to meeting and hearing from the descendants of the Battle of Brandy Station, the winter encampment in Culpeper County and those involved in the beginning of the Overland Campaign. There will be food, multiple speakers, re-enactors, living history encampment, exhibits and much, much, more.
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this event with your entire family.
July, 2025 Date and time to be announced
Special screening of the movie "Glory" at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater,
19053 Mt Pony Rd, Culpeper, VA.
This event in Culpeper will feature reenactors and a crew member from the movie.