Prince William County, Virginia
Bel Air
Ben Lomond
Beverley Mill
Brentsville Courthouse and Jail
Brentsville Historic District
Buckland Historic District
Buckland Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine Historic District
Commanding General's Quarters, Quantico Marine Base
Conner House
Davis-Beard House
Effingham
Evergreen
Freestone Point Confederate Battery
Goodwill Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 1
Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Lawn, The
Liberia
Locust Bottom
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Mawavi Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 2
Moor Green
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Cemetery
Mt. Atlas
Nokesville Truss Bridge
Occoquan Historic District
Old Hotel
Old Town Hall and School
Orenda/SP-26 Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 3
Park Gate
Pilgrim's Rest
Pilgrim's Rest (Boundary Increase)
Pleasant Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 4
Prince William County Courthouse
Prince William Forest Park Historic District
Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District
Rippon Lodge
Rockledge
Signal Hill
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Thoroughfare Gap Battlefield
Weems-Botts House
White House
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 EwellÂ’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
ArcherÂ’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 GriffinÂ’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 - LoveÂ’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
EllicottÂ’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
GreggÂ’s Brigade
GroverÂ’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
JacksonÂ’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
LeeÂ’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 HarrisÂ’ 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
SelecmanÂ’s (SnyderÂ’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 KentonÂ’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
WashingtonÂ’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 GraysonÂ’s Grave
Williams Ordinary
Willoughby Tebbs
Wilmer McLean after the Civil War
Wilmer McLeanÂ’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"
"Â…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”
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.
Brief timeline of 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.
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Prince William County, Virginia.