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The Occoquan River as it passes the town. By 1765, Anglo-American colonists had established an industrial settlement at Occoquan, with grist mills and tobacco warehouses. [citation needed] The Merchants Mill established by Quaker Nathaniel Ellicot may have been the first automated grist mill in the nation. It operated for 175 years until ...
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.
Occoquan may refer to: Occoquan, Virginia; Occoquan River; Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge; Lorton and Occoquan Railroad; Occoquan Workhouse (prison) 1917 imprisonment of suffragettes at the Occoquan workhouse
The Doeg (or Dogue) tribe of Virginia were part of the coastal Algonquian language family. They probably spoke Piscataway or a dialect similar to Nanticoke.. According to one account, the Doeg had been based in what is now King George County, but about 50 years before the founding of Jamestown (ca. 1557), they split into three sections, with groups going to Caroline County and Prince William ...
The Accomac people [3] were a historic Native American tribe in Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia. [1] They were loosely affiliated with the Powhatan Confederacy. [1] Archeological and historical record suggest trading relationships between the Accomacs and the Powhatans as well as other related groups such as the Occohannocks. [4]
The refuge has a mix of wetlands, forest, and native grasslands that provides a diversity of habitats for wide variety of species. Wetland habitats cover about 50% of the refuge and include wet meadows, bottomland hardwoods, open freshwater marsh, and tidally influenced marshes and streams. Upland meadows and mature oak-hickory-beech forest are ...
The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial is a monument to American suffragists.The memorial is located in Lorton, Virginia's Occoquan Regional Park and stands in close ...
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