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Dumfries peaked in size and importance in 1763. For about 15 years Dumfries was a thriving port when several factors brought about its demise: the Revolutionary War, erosion and siltation, and the shift in the main shipping commodity (from tobacco to wheat and sugar). The Dumfries Cemetery contains burials of some of the Dumfries pioneers.
When SR 234 (Dumfries Road) was widened to four lanes divided, and relocated slightly north, the old Dumfries Road was renamed Independent Hill Road, and the rest was made an extension of Bristow Road, ironically signed as SR-619. After SR 619 turns right, unposted, onto Joplin Road, Bristow Road continues (also as SR-619) and intersects with ...
The U.S. Postal Service has deemed that residents may use "Southbridge, VA" as their mailing address, sharing the 22026 ZIP code with the Town of Dumfries. In addition, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles allows residents to select "Southbridge, VA" as their legal residence for their driver's license and vehicle registration.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Triangle has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.8 km 2), all of which is land. It is bounded to the north and west by Dumfries, to the west by Prince William Forest Park, and to the east by the Potomac River.
The eastern side of the peninsula was long occupied by low-density single-family homes, while the western side remained more industrial. This changed with the construction of Southbridge on the Potomac, a master-planned community of approximately 1,500 homes on 600 acres of land in southwestern Cherry Hill, founded in 1990 and built largely from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s; River Oaks, a ...
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Like most “vegetable” recipes from around this area, it contains a big, fat ham hock. Recipe: The Pioneer Woman. NRedmond/istockphoto. 3. Sweet Potato Pie.