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Crossroads | by Priscilla Knight, Contributing Writer
CENTREVILLE, VA
Virginia bluebells bloom
in abundance along Bull Run
and Cub Run in spring.
In 1789 the Virginia
General Assembly
chartered 'Centreville,'
where people traveling
from Washington or
Alexandria to Leesburg,
Winchester, Warrenton
and other towns stayed
overnight. George
Washington rested there,
as did Thomas Jefferson
on his way from
Charlottesville to
his presidential
inauguration in 1801.
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Centreville, Virginia
C
entreville, Virginia, thrives today
as a fast-paced suburb of
Washington, D.C.
But dotted among landscaped malls,
modern office buildings and homes,
historic markers indicate something
important happened here years ago.
It did.
If land radiating out from its crossroad
center at Lee Highway (Rt. 29), Sully Road
(Rt. 28), Braddock Road, and I-66 could
talk, it would say, " Let me tell you about
founding fathers, Civil War battles, spies
in hoop skirts, and electricity. " This
" census-designated place " in Fairfax
County sits at a Virginia-history
crossroads, and is worth a visit.
COLONIAL 'MELTING POT'
At a spot on a bluff, with vistas of
mountains and valleys carved by fresh
water runs, 17th-century settlers established
a crossroads village. By the 18th century,
landowners, tenant farmers, slaves, and
convicts from English prisons worked
together from dawn to dusk. Michel Jean
de Crevecoeur, a French nobleman who
came to the British colonies in 1755,
observed: " Here there are no great lords
with everything and a horde of common
This Fairfax County community is a Virginia-history crossroads.
people with nothing. ... Here individuals
of all nations are melted into a new race of
men whose labor and posterity will one
day cause great changes in the world. "
FROM COLONY TO COUNTRY
Also in 1755 British Gen. Edward
Braddock led his troops west through the
village to fight in the French and Indian
War. Mud hampered his military caravan.
To lighten the load, legend says Braddock's
men buried two brass cannons and
$30,000 worth of gold coins in the village.
Braddock died from battle wounds. No
one found the treasure.
Ultimately, the British received Canada
from France and Florida from Spain, but at
a cost England's King George III thought
the colonists should help pay. His
" taxation without representation " ignited
the American Revolutionary War in 1775
and caused the colonists to declare
independence in 1776. Despite few
supplies and funds, Gen. George
Washington's Continental Army and
French forces defeated the British at
Yorktown in 1781.
In 1789 the Virginia General Assembly
chartered " Centreville, " where people
traveling from Washington or Alexandria
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