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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW3_weems-botts-house_Dumfries-VA.html
Weems-Botts HouseDumfries, VirginiaMarked by Bill of Rights Chapter, NSDAROctober 6, 1996
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This Property has beenplaced on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW1_jordan-springs_Stephenson-VA.html
During the Civil War, both United States and Confederate forces used Jordan Springs resort as a hospital at different times. Wounded and sick Confederate soldiers from the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields came to the springs—although Mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0_historic-occoquan-center-for-the-processing-of-grain_Occoquan-VA.html
Originally known for its public tobacco warehouses and iron foundry, in the second half of the 18th century Occoquan also became a center for the processing of grain, particularly wheat farmed in the surrounding backcountry. John Ballendine built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVV_the-tin-shop_Waterford-VA.html
15481 Second Street · Built 1875-1885 · Historic Use —Housed harness-making, tin roofing and tinware businesses; post office (1885-1897) · ?Current Use —Waterford Fair; office space
The Tin Shop is built over a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVS_the-beehive-brick-kiln_Lorton-VA.html
From the turn of the century until the late 1960's nine kilns on this site were operated by inmates of the Lorton correctional facility.
The bricks stacked inside this kiln are ready to be baked. For 4 to 5 days coal fires in each of the hearth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVP_women-suffrage-prisoners-at-occoquan-workhouse_Lorton-VA.html
Adjacent to this park a group of women was imprisoned in 1917 for demanding the right to vote. The road to Occoquan Workhouse had started in 1848.
In July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, officially opening the American women's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVL_the-first-courthouse-of-prince-william-county_Woodbridge-VA.html
One hundred and fifty yards east of this spot stood the first courthouse of Prince William County organized in 1731. This monument erected by the Bicentennial Committee of Prince William County, September 25, 1931, was presented to the people of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVK_occoquan_Woodbridge-VA.html
Captain John Smith explored this region in 1608. The town of Occoquan began with the opening of a tobacco warehouse on the shore of the Occoquan River in 1734. Occoquan grew as the focus of the commercial and manufacturing activities of John Balle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJ_early-land-patents_Woodbridge-VA.html
In 1653, Thomas Burbage obtained 3,000 acres between the Occoquan and Neabsco Creek. Burbage's Neck later passed to Martin Scarlet (d.1695), pioneer settler and sometime Burgess. George Mason II gained 534 acres of Occoquan River frontage includin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI_fairfax-county-prince-william-county_Woodbridge-VA.html
Fairfax CountyArea 417 Square MilesFormed in 1742 from Prince William and Loudoun, and named for Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the Northern Neck. Mount Vernon, George Washington's home, is in this county.
Prince William CountyArea 345 Square Mil…