Editing The Plains, Virginia (section)

==Attractions==
The Plains is home to [[Great Meadow]], a large open-air and open-field facility that hosts several large events throughout the year, such as the [[Virginia Gold Cup]] [[Steeplechase (horse racing)|steeplechase]] horse race, which attracts over 50,000 guests on the first Saturday of each May, as well as being the home of the [[Team America Rocketry Challenge]] held in the same month.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.virginialiving.com/travel-exploring/a-day-in-the-country/|title=A Day in the Country |last1=Ridgway-Khalifa |first1=Daisy |date= March 21, 2012|website=[[Virginia Living]] |publisher=Cape Fear Publishing|access-date=June 27, 2016 }}</ref>

Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market features fresh, homemade and local products. Hours are Sunday, 10:00&nbsp;a.m. to 3:00&nbsp;p.m. beginning the last Sunday in April through the 2nd Sunday in November. It is open the first two Sundays in December for the "Christmas on the Farm" show.

A museum exhibit, "Footprint to Change", is located at 4243 Loudoun Avenue near the train tracks that go through town. The building houses the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County offices, library and archives as well as the museum.<ref>{{cite web| title=Virtual Museum| url=http://www.aahafauquier.org/Museum/VirtualMuseum/tabid/58/Default.aspx| work=Footsteps to Change| publisher=Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County| access-date=November 20, 2013}}</ref>

Long Branch Baptist Church (est. 1786), the third oldest [[Baptist]] church in Virginia, lies {{convert|4|mi|0}} north of The Plains in the unincorporated area called [[Halfway, Virginia|Halfway]]. The evangelist William Broaddus, founder of Southwestern Seminary in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], Kentucky, was pastor there in the 1830s. His nephew [[John Broadus]] is often called "the father of [[homiletics]]" (preaching).

[[Wakefield School]], a pre-school through Grade 12 independent school, is located just south of the town limits.

Actor [[Robert Duvall]] once owned a restaurant in The Plains called "The Rail Stop", named after the [[Norfolk Southern Railway|Norfolk Southern]] [[B-Line (Norfolk Southern)|B-Line]], which runs through the town. He still makes his residence north of town at his {{convert|360|acre|km2|adj=on}} Byrnley Farm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/robert-duvall-at-home-in-rural-virginia/article_3c3561af-7369-57b6-adfe-8086debc180e.html|title = Robert Duvall at home in rural Virginia}}</ref>
The town is also home to a seasonal [[corn maze]] owned and operated by a family in Charlottesville.

The [[National Association of Rocketry]] held NARAM-50 there in the summer of 2008.

The [[Masonic lodge]] was organized on a site near the present post office. The Plains Lodge U.D. held its first meeting on December 29, 1898, and continued to work "Under Dispensation" until the Grand Lodge of Virginia met in [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]] on December 15, 1899, and issued the lodge a charter under the name of Cochran Lodge No. 271.

[[Beverley Mill]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1972,<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> and most of the town was listed as [[The Plains Historic District]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fauquier/311-5001_ThePlainsHD_2014_NRHP_Final.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for The Plains Historic District|publisher=Virginia DHR|access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20140606.htm|publisher=National Park Service|title=NRHP actions taken, 5/26/14 through 5/30/14|access-date=June 6, 2014}}</ref>