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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ2_neabsco-mills-ironworks_Dale-City-VA.html
The Neabsco Mills Ironworks complex, under the ownership of three generations of the Tayloe family, of Richmond County, operated between 1737 and 1828. Located near this site, it was one of the longest continually operating ironworks in present-da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPX_stone-bridge_Centreville-VA.html
From the east side of this stream Union cannon fired the first shots of First Manassas at Confederates on the opposite ridge. The attack was a ruse. Though Stone Bridge offered one of the few easy routes across Bull Run, the main Union columns wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPV_the-patowmack-canal_McLean-VA.html
1785-1828
This canal, skirting the 76-foot drop of the Great Falls of the Potomac, was the most demanding and complex of the five canals built by the Patowmack Company.
The company was founded by George Washington on May 17, 1785 to improve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPU_electric-trains-on-the-w-od_Vienna-VA.html
Electrification arrived in 1912, after the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the Southern Railway's Bluemont Branch were consolidated into the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new owners brought modern interurban trolley cars. Wire str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPT_tracks-into-history_Vienna-VA.html
The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The B&O was diverting farm produce from the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPS_fairfax-nike-missile-site_Fairfax-VA.html
During the Cold War a ring of Nike anti-aircraft missile sites defended the nation's capital, reminiscent of the perimeter of forts that protected it during the Civil War. Just east of here was located the launch control equipment for one of the t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPR_lorton-nike-missile-site_Lorton-VA.html
Located north of here was one of three Nike anti-aircraft missile complexes in Fairfax County operated by the U.S. Army and the Army National Guard between 1954 and 1974. The sites were established during the Cold War to defend Washington from Sov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQ_great-falls-nike-missile-site_Great-Falls-VA.html
Just to the southeast were radar and other control equipment that formed a portion of one of three Nike anti-aircraft missile complexes in Fairfax County. The site was operated by the U.S. Army between 1954 and 1962. Established during the Cold Wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPP_vienna-station_Vienna-VA.html
Vienna Station, shown in the center of the photograph below in 1864, has stood here since the arrival of the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railway (later the Washington & Old Dominion Railway) in 1859.
The farm community of Ayr Hill consiste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPN_vienna-centennial-park_Vienna-VA.html
(Front Side): History of the Railroad in Vienna * 1859 to 1968* 1859 — Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad begins passenger, mail and freight service to Vienna.* 1861 — First use of a railroad in war occurs in Vienna during the Ci…