Catalpa (Culpeper, Virginia)

[2] During Virginia's colonial period, the Catalpa estate was the seat of Major Philip Clayton.

[2] The plantation was named after a catalpa tree that Clayton brought from Essex and transplanted on the property.

[2] Clayton's tree was the first catalpa introduced to Culpeper County.

[2] Philip Clayton married Ann Coleman the sister of Robert Coleman, on whose land the town of Culpeper was established in 1759, originally named "Fairfax" until the American Civil War.

[2] The Culpeper Minutemen organized on 17 July 1775 under a large oak tree at "Clayton's old field" on the Catalpa estate.