Browntown is an unincorporated community located in Warren County, Virginia. Browntown is the center of a large land area (more than 14,000 acres) that is officially and traditionally known as Gooney Manor. Gooney Manor takes its name from a creek that forms in the mountains and flows northward to the Shenandoah River. The manor, part of Lord Fairfax’s holdings west of Virginia’s the Blue Ridge Mountains, runs from the mountain tops on the east and south to Flint Run on the west, and what is now the Poor House Road on the north.
