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Rockledge, is a historic home located at Occoquan, Prince William County, Virginia, United States, near Washington D.C. It was built in 1758 from stone at the request of John Balladine, a wealthy local industrialist. Architect William Buckland worked on this house. [3] [4] The historic marker on the site reads:
February 26, 1970 (General Washington Dr. Dale City: Historic plantation manor house built c. 1740 by Charles Ewell. It was the home of Mason Locke Weems (1759 – 1825), the first biographer of George Washington and the creator of the George Washington cherry tree story ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet").
Occoquan Historic District is a national historic district located at Occoquan, Prince William County, Virginia. It encompasses 60 contributing buildings in the town of Occoquan. The buildings are predominantly frame, two-story, residential structures although the earliest examples are constructed of stone or brick.
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Location of Fredericksburg in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. The locations of National ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
State Route 123 (SR 123) or Virginia State Route 123 (VA 123) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 29.27 miles (47.11 km) from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Woodbridge north to the Chain Bridge across the Potomac River into Washington from Arlington .
Historic houses in Occoquan include a 17th-century house at 206 Mill Street and Rockledge Manor, a Georgian mansion built in 1758 by John Ballandine and British architect William Buckland. [7] Two hotels in the town date back to the early 1800s: the Hamill Hotel built in 1804 and the Occoquan Inn built in 1810. [ 7 ]