GCREMQ Mayfield Fort (Traditional Cache) in Virginia, United States created by vmi88

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Hidden : 11/27/2005

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Hidden Historical Area on a higher elevation in Manassas, Virginia. It is the site of a Mayfield Civil War Fort.

The site is free to the public. For more information about Mayfield Fort visit the Living Here section of this web site and select the Manassas Museum System or call the Museum Office at (703) 368-1873.

The 11 acres comprising the Mayfield Earthwork Fort is situated between the Buckhall and Russia Branch tributaries of the Occoquan River, its strategic high ground and water resources made its occupation advantageous. Native Americans occupied the site as far back as 3,700 - 2,500 BC. Prehistoric artifacts uncovered on the site reflect a hunter/gatherer culture with extensive migration and trading connections.

European settlement began in 1740 when the land was patented to Peter Hamrick (or Hambrick) and became known as "Mayfield." In 1779 it was sold to Robert Hawson Hooe. The Hooes were an established Virginia family of considerable wealth and a long history of settlement in the lower Potomac region. The Hooe family shaped Mayfield into a bustling operation featuring a stone house, a sizeable number of support buildings.

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