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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFSB_manassas-1900_Manassas-VA.html
As Manassas grew and prospered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the historic district filled with prominent homes, churches, and commercial buildings. The town had two banks and two newspapers. Telephone service began in 1895. Albert Spe…
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In this vicinity stood the Civil War era Orange & Alexandria Railroad repair shops.
Just east of Manassas City Hall stood the sidings and turntable of the railroad, used to reverse the direction of a train. When the Confederates evacuated the M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFRK_manassas-1850_Manassas-VA.html
The Kate Hooe House at 8920 Quarry Road is the only known building in the historic district believed to date from the pre-Civil War period, when Manassas was a small village at the junction of two railroad lines. This wood frame house contains a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFRJ_manassas-1890-1900s_Manassas-VA.html
After the county seat moved to Manassas in 1892, and the Southern Railway continued to prosper, the area outside the core downtown and along the railroad track experienced a building boom.
The new clapboard homes ranged in style from Italianate…
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During the cold winter night of December 5, 1905, a smoldering fire began in Blossom's Alley across the tracks from the train depot. It soon raged through the young town of Manassas, destroying 35 homes, the post office, and business bordered by M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFOY_maid-of-erin_Manassas-Kerry.html
Work of local manPat McAuliffe1846-1921
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFOX_manassas_Manassas-VA.html
According to tradition the name Manassas was derived either from an Indian source or from Manasseh, a Jewish innkeeper at Manassas Gap (35 miles west). The community originated in 1852 at the junction of the Manassas Gap and Orange & Alexandria ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEIT_prince-william-county-world-war-i-memorial_Manassas-VA.html
Dedicated to the CitizensofPrince William Countywho lost their lives inthe service of their country inthe the 1917 - World War - 1919Fewell Athey · Carrington Bailey · Maurice Beavers · John Blackwell · John C. Blight &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1N_confederate-cemetery_Manassas-VA.html
Dedicated by the Ladies Memorial Association of Manassas, on August 30, 1889, to the heroes of Virginia and her sister states, who yielded their lives on July 18 & 21, 1861 & August 28, 29 & 30, 1862, in defense of the Confederate cause.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LK_battle-of-bull-run-bridge_Manassas-VA.html
In Aug. 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson from the Rappahannock River to keep Gen. John Pope's and Gen. George B. McClellan's armies from uniting. Jackson marched on Aug. 25, and Lee followed the next …