The town of Washington, Virginia, is a historic village located in the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains close Shenandoah National Park.  The entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, Washington Historic District. It is the county seat of Rappahannock County, Virginia.

The town was traditional by an combat of the Virginia General Assembly in 1796 and as the county chair of Rappahannock County, Virginia, in 1833. The town was incorporated in 1894 and was rechartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1985. A large allocation of the town was designated as the Washington Historic District on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is considered to be the best preserved of county-seat communities in the Piedmont. The town is led by a 7-member elected Town Council composed of a mayor, a treasurer, and five further members, all of whom further 4-year terms. The internationally certified Inn at Little Washington is located in the town. The town combines a mix of open spaces, residences, village commerce, tourism facilities, historic buildings, cultural offerings, and local organization activities. Its population was 135 people in the 2010 census and was estimated to be 127 people in 2019. The Place of the town is 182 acres (74 ha).

The first recorded endorsed document relating to the house that became the town of Washington was a land come to in the year 1735 from King George II of Great Britain to Thomas, James, and Elizabeth Kennerly. The three siblings established 1,750 acres of estate located “between the mountains and the fork of the Rushy River,” in what was next Orange County, for importing six people into the colony of Virginia, payment of seven pounds five shillings of “good and lawful money,” and an annual momentum of one shilling for every fifty acres of land. At this become old there were about no Native Americans in the area and the mannerism was read to English harmony of the Piedmont region of Virginia.

In 1745, the Kennerlys not speaking their home into three parts. Thomas expected the central part, adjacent to and south of the Rush River and containing the house that would become the town of Washington. Thomas sold his estate to Henry Gambill in 1753 and moved to South Carolina. Gambill on bad terms the land: in 1754 he sold the western part, which contained what became the western allowance of the town of Washington, to John Minor; in 1761 he gave the eastern part, which contained what became the northeastern allowance of the town, to his son William Gambill. The be close to between these two parts would become portion of the original road to Chester Gap and, later, Gay Street taking into consideration the town of Washington was established.