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Woodbridge is 200 Years Old!

[This article was written by Stephen E. Phinney in 1995, when he was serving on the Prince William County Historical Commission. It was published in the November, 1997 issue.]
Two hundred years ago, a wooden bridge was built over the Occoquan River near its mouth along the Potomac Path, the major highway from Alexandria south ( later called the King’s Highway). Thomas Mason, the owner of the plantation in the area named his plantation “Woodbridge.”
This bridge lasted about 10 years being washed away in 1807 by one of the recurring floods seen on the Occoquan River. But the name of the plantation and of the settlement that grew up in the area remained.

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