Historical Markers in
Prince William County, Virginia

10th New York Vol. Infantry 13th New York Infantry 15th Alabama Infantry 15th Alabama Infantry 1804 Boundary Stone 1804 Occoquan Town Plat 1822 Tavern Site 1822 Tavern Site 1942 19th Indiana Infantry 1st Battalion 7th Marines 1st Battle of Bull Run Memorial 1st Massachusetts Infantry 1st Reconnaissance Battalion 20th New York State Militia 21st Georgia Infantry 21st North Carolina Infantry 22nd Marines WWII 24th New York Infantry 263 Squadron 26th Georgia Infantry 26th Marine Regiment 291 Mustangs 2d Recon Bn 2nd AmTrac Battalion 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines 2nd Bn 4th Marines Memorial Trail Segment 2nd New Hampshire Infantry 2nd New Hampshire Infantry 2nd Rhode Island Infantry 2nd Wisconsin Infantry 3d Battalion, 11th Marines 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines 3rd Battalion, 27th Marines 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion 404 Mill Street 42nd Officer Candidates School Class / The Basic School Class 4-67 45th Georgia Infantry 49th Georgia Infantry 4th Alabama Infantry 4th South Carolina Infantry 5th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry 5th USMC Officers Basic Class 1948 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry 6th Wisconsin Infantry 7 December 1941 71st New York State Militia 73rd Ohio Infantry 76th New York Infantry 7th Engineer Battalion 7th Georgia Markers 7th Georgia Regiment 7th Wisconsin Infantry 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry 8th Georgia Infantry 9/11 Liberty Memorial 9th Engineer Battalion A Debt Repaid A Fight on the Potomac A Historic Place / Ben Lomond Old Rose Garden A Narrow Escape A Railroad Runs Through It A Stand Up Fight A Tradition of Conservation Acquisition of Quantico Marine Reservation Action at Bristoe Station Alabama Cemetery Aldo Leopold Alexander Henderson Alfred Lerner Algonquian Trail Almost Extinct Ambush at Ewell’s Chapel American Gold Star Mothers Memorial America's 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines Battalion Annoying the Enemy Antioch Church Antioch-McCrae African American School Archeology at Brawner Farm Archer’s Brigade Artillery Duel Asbury Church Attack at Deep Cut Bacon Race Church Bacon Race Church and Cemetery Bar on the Beach Memorial Barber Fitness Center Barnes House Battery Heights Battery Heights Battle Along the Railroad Battle of Bristoe Station Battle of Buckland Mills Battle of Kettle Run Battlefield of Bull Run or First Manassas Battles at Bristoe Station Battling for the Rocky Knoll Bel Air Plantation Belle Haven Baptist Church Ben Lomond Ben Lomond Farm Benita Fitzgerald Drive Black Gum Blocking the Union Advance Blocking the Union Advance Bravo Company Bravo Company, The Basic School Brent Town and Bristow Brentsville Brentsville Brentsville Courthouse Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre Brentsville Jail Brigadier General Francis Stebbings Bartow Bristoe 1861-1862 Trail Bristoe 1863 Trail Bristoe Station Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park Broken by Artillery Brooklyn Fourteenth Brownsville Brown's Tavern Site Buckland Bull Run Battlefields Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine Camp Jones Campaign of Second Manassas Campaign of Second Manassas Captain John W. Ripley Carey M. Perkinson Carter Cemetery Cavalry Clash Cedar Run Court House Site Cemeteries Centuries of History Chapman's Mill Charge on Griffin’s Guns Chestnut Oak Chinn Ridge Church During Wartime Clerk's Office CO - Major John Antonelli Co. E, 2d Bn, Spl Tra Regt Co. F, 2d Bn, Spl Tra Regt Col John R. Bates Col Wally Campbell Collo. Richard Blackburn Colonel Cameron Colonel Fletcher Webster Colonel Thomas Colonial Dumfries - Williams Ordinary Colonial Road Colonial Roads Commerce Street Commonwealth of Virginia Memorial Company A Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery Company H Confederate Cemeteries Confederate Counterattack Confederate Headquarters Confederate Winter Camps Confederates in Bristoe Confederates Rally Counterattack County Courthouse County Jail Cpl Don Weber Cpl G. B. (Sonny) Johnston Crusading for Right Davis Family Farmstead Deadly Day for Excelsior Brigade Dean Divers Church Death of Fletcher Webster Dedicated to Force Reconnaissance and Special Operations Marines, Corpsmen and Their Families Dedicated to The China Marine Deep Cut Defeat and Disarray Defending the Cannon Denig's Demons Memorial Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division Dumfries - Love’s Tavern Dumfries Cemetery Dumfries Methodist Church Bell Dumfries Raid Dumfries Rest Area Dunklin Monument Dying in Line Early & Gordon at Bristoe Station Early Land Patents East Coast Radio Transmitting Station Eastern Red Cedar Ebenezer Baptist Church Echo Company Edson's Raiders Effingham Effingham Ellicott’s Mill End of the Water Events Along Neabsco Creek Fairfax County / Prince William County Fallen Warrior Farm Ford Farm Ford Farm Life Federal Artillery Position Federal Artillery Positions Federal Winter Quarter Field Hospital Fifth Prince William County Courthouse Fight at the Fence Line Fight at the Fenceline Fight for a Pine Thicket Fighting in Twilight Final Struggle Firefighter Marines 9/11 Memorial First Battle of Manassas First Brigade First Brigade First Contact First Marine Division Association Memorial Flight from Matthews Hill Flowering Dogwood Fourth Brigade Fourth Marine Division Association Memorial Fourth Marine Division of World War II Frank Head Free People Of Color At Thoroughfare Freedmen's Legacy Freedom High School Sundial Memorial Freedom Park Freestone Point Earthworks G-3-1 Gearwheel Assembly General Barnard Elliott Bee George T. Stovall Glascock Cemetery Golf Company 2/7 Golf Company, The Basic School Gracias Graham Park Green Level Plantation Greenwich Greenwood Presbyterian Church and Cemetery Gregg’s Brigade Grover’s Attack ▪ Union Bayonet Charge Groveton Groveton Confederate Cemetery Groveton Monument H-3-7 Korea 1950 Haislip-Hall House Haymarket During the War Haymarket Post Office Hazel Plain Headwaters to Baywaters Henry Hill Henry House Here Lie Men from the State of Alabama Historic Carbide Bunker Historic Farm Road Trace Historic Landscape Historic Landscape Restoration Historic Occoquan Historic Occoquan Historic Occoquan Historic Preservation and Maintenance Historic Road Trace History of Dumfries HML/HMLA-167 HMM-362 Ugly Angels Vietnam Memorial “Wing” Home of the "Boy Major" Honoring the Dead Hopewell Gap Hotel Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment Hotel Company, The Basic School Howison Homestead In Commemoration of the Manassas National Jubilee of Peace In Commemoration of the Secretaries' First Conference In Memoriam In Memory In Memory of Major Wit J. Bacauskas, U.S.M.C. In Memory of the Union Soldiers In the Footsteps of North Carolina In This Area Are Buried India & Mike Companies Invaded Farmland Iron Mike Iron Pulley Wheel Iwo Jima Jackson Opens Fire Jackson Strikes Jackson’s Route James Robinson House Jennie Dean Joe Rosenthal 1911-2006 John Henry Balch Jordan Hall Julie J. Metz Amphitheater Kelly Hall Kemper's Brigade Kemper's Brigade Kitchen Yard Kwanzan Cherry Tree Latrobe's View Lee Catches Meade Lee, Longstreet and Jackson Meeting Leesylvania Leesylvania State Park Lee's Last Move North: The Bristoe Station Campaign of 1863 Lee’s Woods Historic Trail Lest We Forget Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller Lieutenant Ramsey Lieutenant William P. Mangum Like a Stonewall Little Union Baptist Church Little Union Baptist Church LtCol Lew Dement USMC Lucinda Dogan House Maddox Cemetery Manassas National Battelfield Park Manassas National Battlefield Park Manassas School #8 Mann Hall Marine Corps Battle Names Marine Corps Engineers Memorial Marine Corps Musicians Association Marine Corps Mustang Association Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 Marine Spouses and Children Memorial Marines and Corpsmen Marines of the 1st 155 Gun Battery SP Mary Bird Branch Trail Mason Locke Weems and George Washington Matthews Hill Mawavi Road McIntosh's Battery McLean Farm Meadowville Methodist Church Military Operations Mill Street Mill Wheel Minnieville Mitchell's Ford Molly Marine Molly Marine Montclair Veterans Flagpole Monument To The Confederate Dead Neabsco Creek Neabsco Iron Works Neabsco Ironworks & Mills Neabsco Mills Ironworks New School Baptist Church No Sacrifice Forgotten November Company NYPD Marine Corps Association Oak Grove - Bacon Race Church Occoquan Occoquan Occoquan River Bridges Occoquan Wharves Odd Fellows Hall Ogle Harris’ Store Old Bennett School Old Bethel Church Old Bethel High School Old Black Top Road Old Cabin Branch / Clarkson School Old Hammill Hotel Old Telegraph Road On Hallowed Ground On the Skirmish Line Once a Marine .... Always a Marine One-Room School One-Sided Slaughter Opening Shots Outbuildings Outnumbered Outnumbered: The Stand in Robinson Lane Peace Jubilee Piedmont Forest Trail Pittsylvania Point-Blank Volley Pollution Solution Pope's Headquarters Portici Position 7th G.A. Regt. Potomac Path Potomac Path Powells Creek Crossing Preparing for Battle Preserving History Prince William County / Stafford County Prince William County Court House Prince William County World War I Memorial Purple Heart Memorial Pvt Homer Leroy Cutrer - Tennessee Pyrite Mine Pyrite Mine Road Quantico Quantico Baptist Church Quantico Church Quantico National Cemetery Quantico National Cemetery Carillon Range 14 Training Complex Re-Burying the Dead Reclaiming the Land Remembering Our Fallen Brothers Retreat from Chinn Ridge Revolutionary Soldiers Spence and William Grayson Revolutionary War Campaign of 1781 Revolutionary War Patriots and War of 1812 Veterans Rhode Island Battery Rippon Lodge Rippon Lodge Road to the Valley Road to Yorktown Road to Yorktown Roads to Bristoe Station Robinson House Rock Fight Roll of Honor Ruffner Public School Number 1 Russell House and Store Saplings of Hope Seasonal Encampments Second Battalion First Marines Vietnam Memorial Second Battalion, 4th Marines Second Battle of Manassas Second Battle of Manassas Second Battle of Manassas Second Battle of Manassas Second Brigade Second Brigade Second Brigade Second Brigade Second Bull Run Monument Second Lieutenants of The Basic School Second Prince William County Courthouse Selecman’s (Snyder’s) Ford Semper Fidelis Semper Fidelis Memorial Park Senator John W. Warner, Jr. Ship's Bell Shooting Gallery Shooting Gallery Short of Total Victory Signal Hill Signal Hill Monument Simon Kenton’s Birthplace Site of C.C.C. Camp P-71, “Camp Recovery” Sixth Marine Division Slave Quarter Soldiers of the Sea Spence and William Grayson St. Paul's, Episcopal Stone Bridge Stone House Stone House: Witness to War Stones, but No Bones Stony Lonesome Farm Strategic Crossing Stuart's Hill Stuart's Hill Walking Trail Sudley Church Sudley Methodist Church Sudley Springs Sudley Springs Ford Swimming in Bounty Tavern Tavern Archaeology Tavern Cellar Tavern Lot Tavern Square TBS Class 4-69 KIA Texas The Arrival of Jefferson Davis The Bartow Monument The Basic School The Basic School Class 3-69 The Basic School, Class 5-69 The Battle Begins The Battle Begins The Battle of Buckland Mills The Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap & Chapman's Mill The Battlefield In 1862 The Ben Lomond Manor House The Boys of '67 The Buckland Mill The Burying Ground The Carolina Road The Chinn Family The Chosin Few Battle Monument The CO Vans The Crossing Trail The Defense of Dogan Ridge The Dogue Indians The Fight for Matthews Hill The First Courthouse of Prince William County The Freestone Fisheries The Freestone Point Hunt Club The Gallows The Grave of Our Dear Mother, Judith Henry The Lee and Fairfax Family Cemetery The Lee Family Cemetery The Lieutenants of The Base School Class 3-67 and 41st OCC The Lost Community of Kopp, Virginia The Macrae School The Marine Corps League The Marines of '61 The Matthew Farm The Nation's River The Old Potomac Path The Potomac Path The Potomac Path The Public Lot The Rock Fight The Seventy-First Regiment The Shirley Cemetery The Tank Infantry Team The Tavern The Third Basic Officers Class of 1957 The Thoroughfare Colored / North Fork School The Town The Unfinished Railroad The Unfinished Railroad The Union Fifth Corps at Dawkins Branch The Van Pelt House The Wisconsin Company The "Tigers" of Louisiana The ‘Striking Sixth’ Memorial Third Brigade Thomas Jonathan Jackson Thornberry House Timothy T. Day Town of Occoquan Town of Occoquan Troop Movements and Camp Turning the Tide Twilight Clash U.S. Infantry Battalion U.S. Servicemen and Women Held Prisoner by Terrorists Memorial Unfinished Railroad Union Church Various Sections of Virginia Artillery Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Vision of Victory Visions of Victory Visit from the President of the Republic of Korea VMB-612 VMFA-333 Squadron History VMO-6 Wade Hampton Waller Hill War in the Chesapeake War in the Chesapeake War-Time Henry Hill Washington (Louisiana) Artillery Battalion Washington-Rochambeau Wagon Route Washington’s First Journey to the Frontier Water Fowl And Their Habitat Weems Botts Museum Weems-Botts House Welcome to Dumfries Welcome to Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge White Hall White Oak William Edward Ray, Sr. William Grayson Bandstand Memorial William Grayson’s Grave Williams Ordinary Willoughby Tebbs Wilmer McLean after the Civil War Wilmer McLean’s Yorkshire Woodbridge Airport World Trade Center Monument World War II U.S. Marine Raiders 'Staff Sergeant Reckless' "A Pacific Paradise on the Potomac" "Always Faithful" "At the Point of Rock" "Freedoms Flying Memorial" "I Expect We Had Better Charge" "Light Horse Harry" Lee "Rockledge" "The Very Vortex of Hell" "We are in hell and fire on all sides" "We Have Never Blushed Before" "…Like a Stone Wall" “Camp Fisher” Civil War Campsite “Camp Fisher” Civil War Campsite “Leesylvania” “Let There Be Lights” “Pleasureland of the East” “The Unfinished Railroad” “We Shall Bag the Whole Crowd”
Virginia played a significant role in the American Civil War. It was the site of many major battles, including the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, and the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
Prince William County, located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, has a rich and diverse history that stretches back centuries. The area was originally inhabited by Native American tribes before European settlers arrived in the 17th century. It was named after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, who would later become King William IV of Britain.

During the American Revolution, Prince William County played a significant role. It was the site of several battles, including the Battle of Bull Run in 1861, which marked the first major land battle of the Civil War. The county was occupied by both Union and Confederate forces during the war, leading to considerable devastation and loss.

Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Prince William County saw significant agricultural growth, with tobacco, wheat, and corn being the primary crops. The expanding railway system in the region allowed for increased trade and transportation. However, the Great Depression caused a decline in the agricultural industry, leading many residents to seek employment elsewhere.

In recent decades, Prince William County has experienced rapid growth and urbanization. The construction of the Interstate 95 highway and the expansion of nearby Washington D.C. have contributed to its development. The county is now home to a diverse population, and its economy is driven by a mix of industries, including technology, defense, and government. The county also boasts numerous parks, historical sites, and cultural attractions, making it an appealing place to live and visit.

This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Prince William County, Virginia.

  • 1731 - Prince William County is created from Stafford County.
  • 1752 - Dumfries becomes the county seat.
  • 1774 - Brentsville replaces Dumfries as the county seat.
  • 1790 - Manassas is established as a town.
  • 1861 - Manassas becomes the site of the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War.
  • 1870 - The county seat is moved again, this time to Brentsville.
  • 1894 - Manassas becomes an independent city, separate from Prince William County.
  • 1932 - The county seat is finally moved back to Manassas.
  • 1951 - Prince William County experiences significant population growth due to the construction of Quantico Marine Corps Base.
  • 1985 - The county becomes a part of the Washington metropolitan area.
  • 2000 - Prince William County becomes the second most populous county in Virginia, following Fairfax County.