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Manassas contains several historic sites dating from 1850 to 1870. Manassas surrounds the 38-acre (15-hectare) county courthouse, which is located on county property. Manassas is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area and is in the Northern Virginia region.
The county's fifth courthouse was built in 1892–1893, on land donated by former Union officer and Virginia lawyer and delegate George Carr Round.After several legal disputes, including one decided by the Virginia Supreme Court, the county government moved to this building near the county's most important railroad station, from the centrally located but increasingly isolated Brentsville ...
Fauquier County was created from western Prince William County in 1759. In 1790 Prince William County's population was 58% white; most of the remainder were enslaved African Americans. The county had been an area of tobacco plantations, but planters were changing to cultivate mixed crops due to soil exhaustion and changes in the market.
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What are the impacts by ethnicity, race and ZIP codes? The county’s snapshot indicates Native Americans with the highest opioid overdose death rate: 68.8 per 100,000. Black people are next at 54 ...
Osbourn High School has earned the Governor’s STEM Academy Designation. [5] Students at Osbourn are also given the opportunity to attend The Governor's School at Innovation Park, a school that is housed on the Prince William County campus of George Mason University that focuses completely on a Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum.
The modern 10th congressional district was formed in 1952. For the next two decades, it consisted of Arlington, Alexandria, and most of Fairfax County. As a result of redistricting following the 1970 census, it lost Alexandria and was pushed westward to take in Loudoun County.
Notable buildings include the former Manassas Presbyterian Church (1875); the former All Saints Roman Catholic Church (1878); the Sillington, Hazen Building, formerly the National Bank of Manassas (1896); the former Hopkins Candy Factory (1908-1909); the old Manassas Town Hall; the Trinity Episcopal Church (1922); the Grace Methodist Church (1926); and the Norfolk-Southern Railway passenger ...