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Caroline County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Caroline of Ansbach
- Seat
- Bowling Green
- Largest town
- Bowling Green
- Total
- 537 sq mi (1,390 km )
- Land
- 528 sq mi (1,370 km )
- Water
- 9 sq mi (23 km ) 1.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 34,413
- Density
- 58.5/sq mi (22.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- www .co .caroline .va .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Caroline of Ansbach
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Contains
- Bowling Green
- Capital
- Bowling Green
- Population
- 30887
- Area
- 1379
- Shares border with
- Spotsylvania County
- Official website
- www.co.caroline.va.us
- Image
- Caroline County Courthouse (Built 1803-1809), Bowling Green (Caroline County, Virginia).jpg
- Households
- 10978
Show 11 more facts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Caroline County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Caroline County, Virginia
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Caroline County, Virginia
- Commons category
- Caroline County, Virginia
- inception
- 1727-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Caroline County, Virginia
- different from
- Caroline County
- water as percent of area
- 1.7
- native label
- Caroline County
- topic has template
- Template:Caroline County, Virginia
- per capita income
- 35588
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Encyclopedic overview
Caroline County is a United States county located in the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The northern boundary of the county borders on the Rappahannock River, notably at the historic town of Port Royal. The Caroline county seat is Bowling Green.
Caroline County was established in 1728 and was named in honor of the British queen Caroline of Ansbach. Developed in the colonial and antebellum years for tobacco and later mixed crops, worked by generations of enslaved African Americans, such agriculture gradually became less important. In the 20th century it was known for thoroughbred horse farms. It is the birthplace of the renowned racehorse Secretariat, winner of the 1973 Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caroline County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.