On N. Main Street (U.S. 1) at Colonial Street, on the right when traveling south on N. Main Street. Reported missing.
Williams Ordinary is believed to have been built in the 1760s, although the exact construction date is unknown. The building’s symmetrical façade features header bond, a brick pattern rarely found in Virginia. This building was one of the most . . . — — Map (db m3297) HM
On N Main Street (U.S. 1) at Colonial Street, on the right when traveling south on N Main Street.
Dumfries, an important Potomac River port chartered in 1749, became strategically significant in the autumn of 1861 when Confederate forces built batteries along the Potomac River nearby to blockade Washington, D.C. Gen. William H.C. Whiting, . . . — — Map (db m3207) HM
On Fraley Boulevard (U.S. 1) north of Williamstown Drive, on the right when traveling north.
On 26 December 1862, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart led 1,800 cavalry out of Fredericksburg on his third and last major raid. Stuart divided his column and on 27 December launched a two-pronged attack on Dumfries, a major Union supply base. The garrison . . . — — Map (db m166460) HM
On King Street 0.1 miles north of Cameron Street, on the left when traveling north.
This treed hill is believed to have been the site of a slave
burial ground prior to the Civil War. After the war, Freedmen and Blacks who were free before the war were denied burial in the town cemetery because of existing racial prejudices. These . . . — — Map (db m267815) HM
On Frayley Boulevard (U.S. 1) north of Williamstown Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Just east of this location along the Quantico creek was the plantation known as Graham Park. This property was patented by John Graham (1711-1787) who came to Virginia from Scotland about 1733. Graham is known as the founder of Dumfries since the . . . — — Map (db m519) HM
On Main Street just north of Colonial Street. Reported permanently removed.
A tobacco warehouse was built here in 1730; the town was established in 1749 and became a noted port. In 1774 it elected one of the first Revolutionary Committees of Correspondence. Washington came to Dumfries frequently. On December 12, 1862, Wade . . . — — Map (db m291099) HM
On Frayley Boulevard (U.S. 1) north of Williamstown Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Dumfries, first settled in the early 18th century, became in 1749 the first town in Prince William County chartered by the House of Burgesses. It soon grew in wealth and importance as a major port, rivaling Alexandria, Baltimore, and New York in . . . — — Map (db m520) HM
On Batestown Road, on the right when traveling west.
Born October 12, 1915, John Wilmer Porter was raised in the Batestown neighborhood of Dumfries. After attending the Cabin Branch School, he was hired at a local car dealership and became skilled in auto body repair. In 1945, after a wartime job with . . . — — Map (db m246807) HM
On Cameron Street just west of Duke Street, on the right when traveling west.
Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825), minister, bookseller, and writer, owned a half-acre lot here from 1798 until 1802. Weems published the first edition of his most influential work, later known as The Life of Washington, in 1800. Widely . . . — — Map (db m269860) HM
On South Fairfax Street at Duke Street, on the right when traveling east on South Fairfax Street.
Forty yards southerly of this spot stood the third court house of Prince William County. The brick in this monument came from the foundation of this old court house, and was donated present owners of said court house lot. — — Map (db m2274) HM
On Duke Street at Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Duke Street.
On June 6, 1774 a committee of Prince William County freeholders and merchants met at the county courthouse in Dumfries in response to the recently passed Coercive Acts. These punitive measures were designed to clamp down on Massachusetts after the . . . — — Map (db m248318) HM
On Cameron Street west of Duke Street, on the right when traveling west.
One of the first resolves in Virginia was passed here in Dumfries, the Prince William County seat, on June 6, 1774. Six months earlier, the events of the Boston Tea Party took place, and the British Parliament closed the port of Boston. Angry . . . — — Map (db m248317) HM
On Pyrite Mine Road 0.7 miles east of Scenic Drive, on the left when traveling east.
"Before I will give you another penny, I will let the shafts fill up with water and the frogs jump in," the mine superintendent told workers who were seeking a raise of 50 cents per day. Unbeknownst to the workers, a cheaper but higher grade of . . . — — Map (db m285329) HM
This site was the location of the 1745 stone church and the frame edifice of the Dettingen Parish in the twentieth century.
Here lies the mortal remains of the Dumfries pioneers, from 1667. — — Map (db m7296) HM
On Pyrite Mine Road 1 mile east of Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Today Virginia pine trees grow on the hillside where the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine operated, and Quantico Creek no longer runs orange or smells of sulfur. In 1995 the National Park Service and the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy . . . — — Map (db m233903) HM
On Frayley Boulevard (U.S. 1) north of Williamstown Drive, on the right when traveling north.
The roads through Prince William County were important routes for the Revolutionary War campaign of 1781. In April, the Marquis de Lafayette passed through the county on the King's Highway with a portion of Gen. George Washington's Continental Army. . . . — — Map (db m166461) HM
Revolutionary War Patriots and War of 1812 Veterans known to be interred in Historic Dumfries Cemetery
Revolutionary War
QM Timothy Brundige 1754 - 1822 •
PVT George Smith 1765 - 1822 •
Patriot Thomas Cave 1745 - 1802 •
PVT William . . . — — Map (db m85566) WM
On Duke Street at Cameron Street, on the left when traveling north on Duke Street.
Weems-Botts House
Dumfries, Virginia
Marked by Bill of Rights Chapter, NSDAR
October 6, 1996
Also on the house:
This Property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the . . . — — Map (db m2360) HM
On Cameron Street just west of Duke Street, on the right when traveling west.
Built in 1747, the Weems-Botts House is one of the oldest surviving structures in Dumfries. The smaller, original section of the house comprised two rooms and served as the Quantico Church vestry until the town confiscated it during the American . . . — — Map (db m101526) HM
