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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNFX_the-birth-of-a-river_Fort-Belvoir-VA.html
Nearly 12,000 years ago, the Potomac River was formed as a result of the final glacial episode of the Pleistocene Epoch. At that time, the Potomac River was little more than a tributary of the Susquehanna River. A variety of large animals known as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDA_the-army-comes-to-belvoir_Fort-Belvoir-VA.html
By 1910, the area including Belvoir was sold to the US Government. In 1912, the land was transferred to the War Department, designated for use as an Army training site, and was first used in 1915. By 1918, the area was transformed into Camp A.A. H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCV_belvoir-grounds-and-potomac-view-trail_Fort-Belvoir-VA.html
(Left Side):The Northern Neck Land GrantA proprietary was land granted to a loyal subject of the King. The Proprietor was permitted to subdivide the land and grant, sell or give it to others. In 1649, King Charles II granted the Northern Neck Prop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMIC_historic-green-spring_Lincolnia-VA.html
A 1784 brick house, spring house, and a designed landscape showcase the unique 1942 collaboration of two American masters of design, Walter Macomber and Beatrix Farrand. Green Spring is the only known place where both designers' work is extant. Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMDH_action-at-annandale_Annandale-VA.html
The roadbed for the unfinished Manassas Gap Railroad was located in this immediate area and crossed Indian Run creek in Poe Terrace Park. The stone bridge abutments are still visible. Financial problems caused work to stop on the railroad in 1857,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEA_burling-defenders_McLean-VA.html
On July 16, 1970 — two days after county residents voted to raise their own taxes to buy this land — bulldozers began uprooting trees to replace this forest with 309 houses. The development plan failed because of a fight waged by hundr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7O_occoquan-workhouse_Lorton-VA.html
This marker honors the suffragists imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 and 1918, for picketing the White House to gain support for an amendment to the Constitution to give women the right to vote. The women were members of the National Wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJV9_the-springhouse_Vienna-VA.html
In the old days, springhouses did the job ofrefrigerators. This springhouse served theoccupants of the farm from the 18th throughthe early 20th centuries.
It was built directly over the spring andshaded by trees. Cool spring water flowinginto t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0Q_the-great-falls-line_Vienna-VA.html
The Bluemont Branch of the Washington & Old Dominion was not the railroad's only line. The Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad arose in 1906 from the vision of two prominent men. Sen. Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia had prospered through coal, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRO_civil-war-action-at-vienna_Vienna-VA.html
On June 17, 1861, at this bend in the railroad, a Union train carrying 271 men of the 1st Ohio Volunteers was ambushed by nearly 700 South Carolina infantry and cavalry. Amid artillery fire, the Ohioans jumped from the platform cars and took cover…