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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWT_the-dogue-indians_Occoquan-VA.html
The Dogues, an Algonquian tribe, occupied the Occoquan River Watershed in the early 1600s. In their dialect, Occoquan means "at the end of the water." They lived in villages, hunted and fished, and raised corn, beans, squash, and tobacco. They dep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWQ_mayfield-civil-war-fort_Manassas-VA.html
American Indians lived on the land long before white settlers and slaves came to this area. Living in nomadic hunter-gatherer groups, people called the Dogues and the Mannahoacs roamed the Northern Virginia Piedmont region. Archaeological evidence…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWP_ellicotts-mill_Occoquan-VA.html
John Ballendine established this gristmill at the Occoquan Falls ca. 1755. By 1800 it was owned by Nathaniel Ellicott and housed machinery to unload grain from wagons or barges, grind it, and return it to its carrier. The building, the region's fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWO_rockledge_Occoquan-VA.html
John Ballendine built this finely proportioned Georgian House, "Rockledge," in c. 1760. William Buckland, a premier colonial Chesapeake architect, reportedly designed it. "Rockledge" is a rare example of a Tidewater Virginia stone dwelling. Severa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWN_methodist-church_Occoquan-VA.html
This brick, lancet-windowed church, built ca. 1925 is Occoquan's second Methodist church. The first wood-frame church, located on Commerce St. behind the present structure, burned in the 1916 town fire. Besides its original tenants, other church c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWM_mill-street_Occoquan-VA.html
Mill Street has been Occoquan's commercial center since the early 1800s. The Alton Hotel, Taverns, a bank, a pharmacy, grocery and hardware stores, and other businesses served local residents and travelers on the main east coast north south highwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW8_occoquan-wharves_Occoquan-VA.html
Occoquan's Public Wharf was here. This wharf and others at the Occoquan River's highest navigable point were key to the 19th- and early 20th-century town's porsperity. Ships were built, barges carried grain to Ellicott's Mill, and flour, logs, fis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW7_mayfield-civil-war-fort_Manassas-VA.html
This 11-acre historic park, part of the Manassas Museum System, contains one of only two surviving Civil War fortifications in the City of Manassas. The earthwork was built by Confederate troops in the Spring of 1861 as part of the Manassas Juncti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW6_1804-occoquan-town-plat_Occoquan-VA.html
In 1804, after Virginia's General Assembly granted a charter, Occoquan was platted on 31 acres of founder Nathaniel Ellicott's and others' land. The Plat laid off streets and lots. Structures shown included the public wharf, Ellicott's Mill and Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4_william-grayson-bandstand-memorial_Dumfries-VA.html
Erected byThe Prince William CountyHistorical Commissionin observance of theAmerican Independance Bicentennial1976