Virginia: Historic Occoquan
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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 headquarters in…
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Ex-slave Lewis H. Bailey organized Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1883. It is one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in Easter Prince William County. The original church, built on this site in 1883-1884, was one of Occoquan's first churches. F…
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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 buried by lan…
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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 groceries, meat, …