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Montclair is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 22,279 in the 2020 census. [ 3 ] An affluent residential community surrounding a man-made lake and golf course , development began in the late 1960s and new home construction ended during the 1990s.
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.
Southbridge is an unincorporated master-planned community of over 1,500 homes with more than 5,000 residents located in Prince William County, Virginia. It is situated on over 600 acres (2.4 km 2) near the Potomac River on the Cherry Hill peninsula just north of the Town of Dumfries.
Powells Creek was originally referred to by the Doeg people as Yosococomico, [a] who inhabited the region from the 1600s to the 1700s.. On 3 December 2004, an accident occurred on the U.S. Route 1 bridge over Powells Creek where a truck hauling 27 tons of lime lost its trailer over the side of the bridge and into Powells Creek, spilling the material into the creek and killing fish.
Virginia State Route 234 (SR 234) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.It runs from U.S. Route 1 near Dumfries via Independent Hill as Dumfries Road, bypasses Manassas as Prince William Parkway, and has a brief concurrency with Interstate 66 for 2.27 miles (3.65 km) between exits 44 and 47 before continuing northwest via Catharpin to U.S. Route 15 near Woolsey as Sudley Road.
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 ...
The North Fork of Quantico Creek, from the North Valley trail Map of Prince William Forest Park. Prince William Forest Park is a National Park Service (NPS) site in the U.S. state of Virginia within Prince William County (and very partially Stafford County), located adjacent to the Marine Corps Base Quantico near the town of Dumfries.
Three other major routes, all of which have interchanges with I-95 and terminate at U.S. 1, are VA 123 (Gordon Boulevard), which runs north to Fairfax and ends in Arlington at the Washington, D.C. border, VA 294 (Prince William Parkway), which runs northeast to and ends in the Manassas area, and SR 784 (Dale Boulevard)—which heads northeast ...