An experimental digital history archive that is an attempt at documenting the
transformation and history of Northern Virginia in the past fifty years. This latest version has been created
and designed by Charlie Evans.
An inexperienced Union army marched past here on the way to the Manassas battlefield. Many soldiers returned wounded on the way back and were treated in the church. The area then became a Confederate campgound during the winter of 1861-1862. Trails…
Sully was the home of Richard Bland Lee, uncle of Robert E. Lee, and northern Virginia's first representative to congress. He lived here with his wife, Elizabeth Collins Lee, from 1794-1811. During the Lee residency, the farm was supported by…
Bronze sculpture by Joseph P. Pollia (1893–1954) is approx 13 foot tall on a 6 foot black granite base. Monument stands in the approximate position General Jackson was holding at First Manassas.
To the right the viewer sees George Washington's Gristmill. This is the original location of the site, but the building itself is a 1923 reconstruction paid for by the Commonwealth of Virginia--commemorating Washington's 200th birthday.
This image was taken from the inside of the reconstructed 16-sided treading barn at George Washington's Mount Vernon. The barn was designed and invented by Washington in 1791 to help process and thresh wheat.