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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YI_occoquan_Occoquan-VA.html
After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. Uni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM380_ogle-harris-store_Occoquan-VA.html
This c. 1900 house was Ogle Harris' Store. Harris, son of a slave, first sold homemade ice cream from the house's since-razed summer kitchen. In c. 1910 he moved his family from the building, which was then his residence, and began selling groceri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK_lest-we-forget_Occoquan-VA.html
FlagpoleDonated byMr. Thomas E. Tokash&Mrs. Diane M. TokashDedicated toThe AMERICANFighting Men & Women"LEST WE FORGET"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH_1804-boundary-stone_Occoquan-VA.html
A prominent stone located near this spot was the beginning point of the 1804 survey of Occoquan's boundaries. A survey line running from the stone enclosed the 31-acre tract subdivided into streets and lots on the town plat. Today the stone is bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXJ_old-hammill-hotel_Occoquan-VA.html
The three-story hotel, named for operator Edward Hammill, may be Occoquan's first brick building. Tradition says it was built in 1804, but it likely dates from c. 1830. It was the Town's premier inn. Confederate Col. Wade Hampton made it his headq…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXF_odd-fellows-hall_Occoquan-VA.html
Odd Fellows Crescent Lodge No. 3 erected this frame meeting hall in 1889. Volunteer Lodge members and a paid carpenter built it. The first floor was a public meeting room and theater. The Masons, American Legion, church congregations and other gro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXD_commerce-street_Occoquan-VA.html
Commerce Street was a residential and commercial area from the early 19th through mid-20th centuries. Houses, many of which survive, faced the street on lots surveyed on the 1804 town plat. Businesses included the Hammill Hotel and a General Store…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWV_occoquan-river-bridges_Occoquan-VA.html
Occoquan founder Nathaniel Ellicott built the first bridge here c. 1800. The "Great Mail Route" from Washington to the south crossed here. In 1878 an iron Pratt Truss Bridge was erected. This bridge was on the main east coast north-south highway u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWT_the-dogue-indians_Occoquan-VA.html
The Dogues, an Algonquian tribe, occupied the Occoquan River Watershed in the early 1600s. In their dialect, Occoquan means "at the end of the water." They lived in villages, hunted and fished, and raised corn, beans, squash, and tobacco. They dep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWP_ellicotts-mill_Occoquan-VA.html
John Ballendine established this gristmill at the Occoquan Falls ca. 1755. By 1800 it was owned by Nathaniel Ellicott and housed machinery to unload grain from wagons or barges, grind it, and return it to its carrier. The building, the region's fi…