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Occoquan
Jefferson Davis Hy,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
38° 39' 55.40688",
-77° 14' 38.211576"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Captain John Smith explored this region in 1608. The town of Occoquan began with the opening of a tobacco warehouse on the shore of the Occoquan River in 1734. Occoquan grew as the focus of the commercial and manufacturing activities of John Ballendine, who had an iron furnace, forge, and sawmills at the falls of the river before 1759. After the American Revolution , Occoquan emerged as a flour-manufacturing center with one of the nation's first gristmills to use the laborsaving inventions of Oliver Evans. In 1804, Occoquan was established as a town and thrived as a commercial and industrial center into the 1920s.
Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00 |
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Related Themes: American Revolution, the Revolutionary War.
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Occoquan Historical Marker Location Map, Prince William County, Virginia Map
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