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Mason County, Virginia has existed twice in the U.S. state of Virginia's history. Formed in 1788, and 1804, respectively, both counties were named for George Mason, a Virginia delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and each was separated from Virginia due to the creation of a new state, partitioned in accordance with Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.
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Mason County is the name of several counties in the United States: Mason County, Illinois; Mason County, Kentucky, originally Mason County, Virginia (1788–1792) Mason County, Michigan; Mason County, Texas; Mason County, Washington; Mason County, West Virginia, originally Mason County, Virginia (1804–1863)
Feb. 18—OHIO VALLEY — Mason County returned to "green" on the West Virginia COVID-19 County Alert System map on Thursday as the county's percent of positivity fell to 2.92 percent. According ...
It is the seat of justice of Mason county Virginia, and contains about 15 or 20 families, a log courthouse, a log jail and as usual (but unfortunately) in the Virginia towns, a pillory and whipping post. Point Pleasant seems rather on the stand in point of improvement, arising, it is said, from the difficulty in establishing the land titles.
Lexington was an 18th-century plantation on Mason's Neck in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. [3] The estate belonged to several generations of the Mason family, and is now part of Mason Neck State Park .
Mason Neck is a peninsula jutting into the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, southwest of Washington, D.C.. It is surrounded by Belmont Bay to the west, the Potomac River to the south and east, Gunston Cove to the northeast, and Pohick Bay to the north-northeast. Mason Neck forms the southernmost section of Fairfax County in Northern ...
Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, United States. [4] [5] Built between 1755 [6] and 1759 [7] by George Mason, a Founding Father, to be the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre (22 km 2) slave plantation.