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Pohick Church

9301 Richmond Highway, Lorton, VA , USA
Telephone: (703) 339-6572
URL: Pohick Episcopal Church
Latitude & Longitude: 38° 42' 32.783364", -77° 11' 35.906208"
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This building was begun in 1769 and completed by 1774, succeeding an earlier church two miles to the south. It was the lower church of Truro Parish, established in 1732, the parish of Mount Vernon and Gunston Hall. George William Fairfax, George Washington and George Mason, vestrymen, were members of the building committee under which the church was constructed.
Pohick Church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1969.
 
StoppingPoints.com Editorial on Pohick Church:
Originally founded circa 1695 as Occoquan Church. See also Cranford Memorial Methodist Church

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
   
 
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