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In June of 1862, fighting in Virginia was focused around the Confederate Capital in Richmond. In a series of battles known as the Seven Days Campaign, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee beat back Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Federal Army of the Pot…
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Welcome to Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park. The park interprets three important Civil war events that took place around Bristoe Station. This trail focuses on the fall 1861 Confederate encampment known as "Camp Jones" and the 1862 Battle…
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During the late summer of 1861, Confederate troops from Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia camped in the vicinity of Bristoe Station. Typhoid, measles, and other contagious diseases quickly swept through these camps deci…
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Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park is one of Prince William County's most treasured open spaces. This peaceful landscape features over 2.7 miles of walking and equestrian trails. Wildlife abounds in the fields, woods and ponds. Evidence of …
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In the autumn of 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, with Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill's III Corps in the lead, pursued Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union army as it withdrew towards Washington. On the afternoon of 14 October, Maj. Gen. Go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V4_road-to-the-valley_Bristow-VA.html
By the first quarter of the 1700s, revisions to the road laws in the colony mandated more convenient travel routes over land. In conjunction with new settlement pushing west through the Piedmont region to the Blue Ridge, a series of old Indian tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4UU_brentsville_Bristow-VA.html
Fourth seat of the Prince William County government. Courthouse, jail, Episcopal Chapel, and White House were built in 1822 on land originally part of the Brent Town tract confiscated from Robert Bristow, a Tory, in 1779. ♦ St. James Church …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K_brentsville-the-public-lot_Bristow-VA.html
(caption of upper, left picture) Prince William County's surveyor, Thomas Nelson Jr., recorded this plat of Brentsville on November 30, 1822. The Public Square is outlined in red. The Courthouse, Jail, and Clerk of the Court's Office were construc…
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(caption of upper, left picture) The Brentsville School as it appeared ca. 1940.Lucy Walsh Phinney Collection, Gift of Steve and Cynthia Phinney in Memory of Lucy Phinney
This school was built in 1928 over the original location of the County Cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185_brentsville-clerks-office_Bristow-VA.html
Built by 1822 with the Courthouse and Jail, the Clerk's Office was located here. The three buildings created a symmetrical design within the Public Lot. The Clerk's Office was built to be "?26 feet by 16; pitch 18 feet; walls of the foundation 2 f…