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Located in Old Town Manassas is the Manassas Museum. Inspired by a small museum in Strasburg Virginia, lifelong resident, Walser Rohr suggested the town assemble artifacts for display in a trial museum. The exhibit opened for the centennial celebrations in 1973 and was a success. Since 1991, the museum has increased exhibit spaces to include ...
Manassas (/ m ə ˈ n æ s ə s / [7]), formerly Manassas Junction, [8] is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. The population was 42,772 at the 2020 Census. [9] It is the county seat of Prince William County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. [10] Manassas borders the independent city of Manassas Park ...
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 Manassas, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
This cafeteria-style buffet has a long, storied history in its home state of Texas. The first Luby’s opened in the ’40s, and the chain ballooned to more than 200 locations in the mid-’90s ...
Signal Hill is a historic Confederate Army military site in Prince William County, Virginia. From this location, a signal station atop the hill, Confederate observers in 1861 spotted Union Army troops attempting to cross Sudley Ford. The Confederate response to this maneuver initiated the First Battle of Bull Run. [2]
Included in the 16-acre (6.5 ha) site are four large warehouses, processing buildings including a stemmery and a re-drying plant, and ancillary buildings and structures, including the American Tobacco Company's 1939 research laboratory. The complex exhibits a historical range of trends in the processing and storage of tobacco.
On July 21, 1911, U.S. President William Howard Taft and Virginia Governor William Hodges Mann shook hands on the courthouse lawn during the Manassas Peace Jubilee commemorating the 50th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major conflict of the American Civil War. The town of Manassas became large enough for the Virginia ...
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