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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.
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]
Occoquan (/ ˈ ɒ k ə k w ɒ n /) [6] is a town in Prince William County, Virginia founded in 1804. [7] The population was 934 at the 2010 United States Census . The current mayor is Earnest W. Porta Jr.
"A Ferry Tale Ending" was how the Sun headlined a photo of a unique marriage proposal arranged in September 1993, after a man dressed in a tuxedo jacket and tie buzzed past a ferry heading into ...
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:
Woodbridge was a plantation formerly located on the Occoquan River in Prince William County, Virginia, across from Colchester. There was a ferry there. George Mason, a United States Founding Father, willed the land to Thomas Mason, his youngest son, in 1792. The unincorporated city of Woodbridge takes its name from the plantation.
Belmont Bay is accessible by boat via the Belmont Bay Harbor marina, which has a boat refueling station and is located along the banks of the Occoquan River. [9] Northeast of the community is Woodbridge station, located off U.S. Route 1, which serves Amtrak's Northeast Regional line and Virginia Railway Express's Fredericksburg Line.
The River View at Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton opened in 2018, part of the Jean R. Packard Center. The center also features Brickmakers Cafe. Occoquan Regional Park is a regional park along a tributary of the Potomac River , located in Lorton in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia , USA.