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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.
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)
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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.
In August 2014, the School of Public Policy began providing public policy and public administration education at the undergraduate level, then merged with the Undergraduate and Graduate Department of Public and International Affairs (then a department of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’) to form the George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs.
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. It goes by five local names.
The proceedings of the First Wheeling Convention were recorded by Judge Gibson Lamb Cranmer of Ohio County, Charles B. Waggener of Mason County, and Marshall M. Dent of Monongalia County. Judge Cranmer was also the Secretary of the Second Wheeling Convention and custodian of the manuscript proceedings, journals, and other documents of the ...
Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.