Historical Markers and War Memorials in Dumfries, Virginia
Manassas is the county seat for Prince William County
Dumfries is in Prince William County
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On Fortuna Center Plaza near Dumfries Road (Virginia Route 234), on the right when traveling north.
Located in Prince William Forest Park, the Pyrite Mine trail leads you to a peaceful, open expanse above the banks of the Quantico Creek. From 1889 to 1920 the area was busy with the sights, sounds and smells of mining. The Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine . . . — — Map (db m233829) HM
On N. Main Street (U.S. 1) at Colonial Street, on the right when traveling south on N. Main Street.
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 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
Near Park Entrance Road north of Joplin Road, on the right when traveling north.
The old roadbed to your right was a forerunner of today's interstate highways. American Indians made a path through the woods so they could travel between villages and their hunting and fishing grounds along tidewater creeks. European settlers . . . — — Map (db m211322) 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 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 m150716) HM
On Fortuna Center Plaza near Dumfries Road (Virginia Route 234), on the right when traveling north.
The Potomac Path, or King’s Highway, was a major transportation route linking the northern and southern colonies in colonial America. Following an ancient Indian trail, the road assumed great importance for overland travel between the colonies and . . . — — Map (db m5365) 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
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 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 Fortuna Center Plaza near Dumfries Road (Virginia Route 234), on the left when traveling west.
Built by Richard Blackburn of Ripon, England circa 1745, Rippon Lodge was home to many noted individuals including Colonel Thomas Blackburn, a former aide to General George Washington, Judge Wade Ellis, a Federal Judge in Washington, D.C., and . . . — — Map (db m5366) HM
On Fortuna Center Plaza near Dumfries Road (Virginia Route 234), on the right when traveling north.
The Weems-Botts House offers a fascinating history on Virginia’s oldest chartered town and two of the more colorful personalities to have lived here: the Rev. Mason Locke Weems and attorney Benjamin Botts. Weems, biographer of George Washington, was . . . — — Map (db m5371) HM
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
On Fortuna Center Plaza near Dumfries Road (Virginia Route 234), on the right when traveling north.
Built in the form of an eighteenth century mansion, neither a construction date nor a builder for the Ordinary is known. It has been suggested that it was built around 1765 by James Wren because of the many stylistic parallels between it and the . . . — — Map (db m5368) 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
