Tag: Front Royal
Front Royal is a town in Warren County, Virginia, United States. The population was 14,440 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Warren County.
Front Royal is roughly 76 miles (122 km) west of Washington, D.C.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 9.5 square miles (24.6 km²), of which 9.3 square miles (24.0 km²) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km²) of it (2.52%) is water.
The entire Shenandoah Valley including Front Royal was forcefully annexed by the Seneca around 1672, but they allowed the Shawnee inhabitants to remain settled in the area as their tributaries. They formally sold their entire claim to the Virginia Colony at the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744. Front Royal, originally known as Lehewtown, had already been settled by whites as early as 1738, and was also known as “Helltown” due to the abundance of rough and wild mountaineers and river travelers in the area, who came into town looking for alcohol and women. It was incorporated as…
