Prince William County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 280,813. Its county seat is the independent city of Manassas. The County was named for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of King George II.

Prince William County, today a part of the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area, was formed in 1730 from portions of Stafford and King George Counties, originally included Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Loudoun, and Fauquier Counties. The first courthouse was constructed on the south bank of the Occoquan at Woodbridge in 1731. Four other sites have served as the County Courthouse. Dumfries, a thriving 18th century shipping port which rivaled Boston and New York, was chartered in 1749.

During colonial times, the "Potomac Path" or "King’s Highway" had become a major transportation route, linking the northern and southern colonies. Lafayette, Washington and Rochambeau were travelers along this route, stopping at the Woodbridge plantation of George Mason; Rippon Lodge, the oldest standing Colonial house on the Potomac River and home of Colonel Richard Blackburn; and the Stagecoach Inn at the port of Dumfries. U.S. Route 1 closely follows this early route. Henry Lee III, known as “Light Horse Harry” and the father of General Robert E. Lee, lived just north of Dumfries on the Leesylvania Plantation. The John Tayloe family owned the Neabsco Iron Works, also near here, which provided iron for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

Foreseeing the coming break with the Mother Country, the citizens of Prince William assembled at Dumfries on June 6, 1774, and adopted the Prince William County Resolves. Later in the same year, one of the first companies of Minutemen in Virginia was organized. William Grayson, a native son, played a prominent role in securing Virginia’s ratification of the Constitution and was to become Virginia’s first United States Senator.

Several additional towns were chartered before the Civil War, but of these, only Haymarket (1799) and Occoquan (1804) remain - with Dumfries - as functioning municipalities today. Prince William was the setting for the First and Second Battles of Manassas, two of the most significant battles of the War Between the States. Today, the events of these battles are remembered and memorialized in the Manassas National Battlefield Park located just northwest of the City of Manassas.

The town of Quantico (1927) came into existence after the creation of the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Manassas and Manassas Park withdrew from the County in 1975 to become independent cities.

For more information on activities in and around Prince William, Virginia, visit:

Visit Prince William County
Marine Corps Base - Quantico, VA
Virginia Tourism
Virginia Time Travelers

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