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Silent Sentinel
... century, Prince William County grew and flourished. Its proximity to both the new capital city of Washington, D. C., and the lush Shenandoah Valley brought settlers and traffic through the county in ... definitely about when or by whom the Stone House was constructed. An examination of Prince William County tax, court, and deed records reveals only that the house was built sometime between ...
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Silent Sentinel
... time on the peninsula formed by the York and James Rivers. To the residents of Prince William County, who had suffered firsthand the effects of battle less than a year earlier, this shift ... passing troops as they took their positions on the once and future battlefield. General (36k) William Taliaferro's Confederate division, marching north on the Sudley Road the morning of August 27 ...
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Genealogy
... 20, 2005 Genealogy The Ben Lomond Manor House has a very distinct place in western Prince William County history. The original builders of the manor house, Benjamin Tasker Chinn (1807-1886), and ... of Independence and a granddaughter, Mary Willis Ambler of Jamestown, who married John Marshall of Prince William County, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The third and fourth ...
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Where It All Began
... from old Prince William County occurred in 1742, again shifting the population center. Three other counties were made from Old Prince William. They were Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria, now Arlington county. ... into the interior of the county, old Prince William County also moved from a maritime to a farming economy. To learn about the society of western Prince William County, with its roots ...
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Carter Chinn History
... also listed in the Prince William County Minute Book from March 6, 1833 to March 2, 1836 as surveyor having surveyed land from New Market to Bethlehem in western Prince William County. He was a member ... Tyler (1838-1902) of Clifton in Prince William County, son of William and Mary Emily (Bronaugh) Bailey of the Shelter on February 27, 1863, in Tappahannock, Essex County by the Reverend H.W.L.Temple ...
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The Civil War Years
... must be held by the national army." The winds of war were blowing through western Prince William County. The newspapers reported that Federal troops were going to march on Richmond and take the ...
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Links
... Alexandria to ever-expanding markets in Europe and South America. In 1759 Fauquier County was created from old Prince William County, and the related documents noted that the boundary between the two counties passed ...
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Personal Possessions
... 10 Razor and case. 11 Pvt. Ludwell Thomas Rector, Co. H "Black Horse Troop," (Fauquier County), 4th Virginia Cavalry, carried this Colt pocket revolver, Model 1849, through the war. The wear ... on the Richmond and Danville railroad. 15 Holy Bible carried by Lt. William Raymond Free, Co. B "Quantico Rifles" (Prince William county), 49th Virginia Infantry. 16 Tobacco found in a pocket of Colonel Gibbons ...
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US National Parks By Name
... Douglass NHS DC Frederick Law Olmsted NHS MA Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial NMP VA Friendship Hill National Historic Site PA Return ... UT-NE-CA Potomac Heritage NST MD Poverty Point NM LA Prince William Forest Park VA Pu'uhonua a Honaunau NHP HI Puukohola Heiau ... White House DC White Sands NM NM Whitman Mission NHS WA William Howard Taft NHS OH Wilson's Creek NB MO Wind Cave ...
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US National Parks By State
... Garfield NHS OH Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial OH William Howard Taft NHS OH Return to the Top Oklahoma Chickasaw ... NHP VA Cumberland Gap NHP KY-TN-VA Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial NMP VA George Washington Birthplace NM VA George ... L. Walker NHS VA Manassas NB Park VA Petersburg NB VA Prince William Forest Park VA Richmond NB Park VA Shenandoah NP VA ...
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