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The Best Attractions In Prince William County

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Prince William County is a county on the Potomac River in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 402,002, on 1 July 2015, the population was estimated to be 451,721, making it Virginia's second-most populous county. Its county seat is the independent city of Manassas.A part of Northern Virginia, Prince William County is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2012 it had the seventh highest income of any county in the United States.
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  • 1. National Museum of the Marine Corps Triangle
    The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps. Located in Triangle, Virginia near MCB Quantico, the museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attractions in the state, drawing over 500,000 people annually.In July 2013, the museum announced plans for a major expansion, to include sections on more modern Marine Corps history, such as the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, a combat art gallery, and a war on terror gallery.
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  • 2. Potomac Mills Woodbridge
    Potomac Mills is a shopping mall in Woodbridge, Virginia in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. It is located near Interstate 95 between Smoketown Road, Telegraph Road and the Prince William Parkway. In 1993 it was said to be the state's top tourist destination. The mall was the first in the Mills Corporation's chain of shopping malls, and has over 225 retailers and an 18-screen AMC movie theater. It was expanded in 1993, adding a wing anchored by Marshalls and JCPenney, along with a Burlington Coat Factory.Cohoes Fashions was also an early tenant. It closed in 1987 and became a Woodward & Lothrop outlet store. Other original tenants included IKEA, Sears outlet and Waccamaw Pottery. The IKEA location at Potomac Mills was one of the company's earliest retail outlets in America, and pro...
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  • 3. Manassas National Battlefield Park Manassas
    Manassas is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 37,821. The city borders Prince William County, and the independent city of Manassas Park, Virginia. The Bureau of Economic Analysis includes both Manassas and Manassas Park with Prince William County for statistical purposes. Manassas also serves as the seat of Prince William County. It surrounds the 38-acre county courthouse, but that county property is not part of the city. The City of Manassas has several important historic sites from the period 1850–1870. The City of Manassas is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is situated in the Northern Virginia region.
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  • 4. Leesylvania State Park Woodbridge
    Leesylvania was a plantation and historic home in Prince William County, Virginia. It was the home of Henry Lee II and his wife Lucy Grymes. In addition to its prominent residents, the plantation was known at the time for its productive land and especially the quality of its tobacco. The Lees raised five boys and three girls at the home, most notably, Henry Light-Horse Harry Lee and Richard Bland Lee.Today, only a small portion of the foundation of the house remains and is part of Leesylvania State Park. The house and its path were completely bulldozed in the 1950s to make way for a road. Lee and his wife are buried on the property. The site and the cemetery are accessible by trail. The Leesylvania Archeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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  • 7. Quantico National Cemetery Quantico
    Quantico is a town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 480 at the 2010 census. Quantico is located just northwest of the Potomac River and just south of the Quantico Creek. The word Quantico is a derivation of the name of a Doeg village recorded by English colonists as Pamacocack.Quantico is surrounded on three sides by one of the largest U.S. Marine Corps bases, Marine Corps Base Quantico. The base is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and HMX-1 , Officer Candidate School, and The Basic School. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration's training academy, the FBI Academy, the FBI Laboratory, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command, and the Air Force Office of Special Inve...
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  • 8. Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge Woodbridge
    The Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located where the Occoquan River meets the Potomac River in Woodbridge, Virginia, United States. The 644-acre site, about half of which is wetlands, was a popular tourist spot known as Dawson Beach until the 1940s, after which it was used for military research by the U.S. Army's Harry Diamond Laboratories from the 1960s to the 1990s. When the land was purchased from the military, it was temporarily called the Marumsco National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge was formally established and renamed in 1998, and is now managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Potomac River National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
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  • 11. Splash Down Waterpark Manassas
    Splash Down Waterpark, a waterpark located within Ben Lomond Regional Park in Sudley, Virginia , is operated by the Prince William County Department of Parks and Recreation. The park was built at the location of the Ben Lomond swimming pool, opening in May 1996. Among slides and wading pools, the facility also houses an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
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  • 13. Prince William Forest Park Triangle
    Prince William Forest Park was established as Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area in 1936. Its location is in Triangle, Virginia, adjacent to the Marine Corps Base Quantico. The park is the largest protected natural area in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region at over 16,000 acres . Today, the park is a window into the past and serves as an example of what much of the East Coast once looked like centuries ago. The park serves as the largest example of Eastern Piedmont forest in the National Park System . The park also protects the Quantico Creek watershed. It is a sanctuary for numerous native plant and animal species.
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