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Western Prince William Heritage Choose to Begin the Scavenger Hunt at Any Numbered Stop 4. The tour begins at a central location, the Manassas Museum. The museum starting point is located at 9101 Prince William Street in downtown Manassas. At www.manassasmuseum.org you will find directions to the museum. However, you may Western Prince William Heritage choose to begin the scavenger hunt at any numbered stop. Family Scavenger Hunt 5. Complete the tour, answering the simple questions as you go. In the Mosby Heritage Area You have to be at each site to answer the questions. Please do not copy answers from someone else or try to find answers on copyright 2008 by the Mosby Heritage Area Association- line! We want you to visit the sites—the route we give you and being there on site is the point of this scavenger hunt. Prince William County’s western end is a key part of Virginia’s Mosby Heritage Area. One of the Old Dominion’s most historic counties , 6. Fill out the registration form in back. Then send the Prince William begs to be loved, and to do that, it needs to be explored! completed scavenger hunt booklet with its form to: This scavenger hunt is an exploration of Manassas (the county seat) and western Prince William. It gives a sampling of Prince William Director of Education, Mosby Heritage Area Association and its heritage. It’s meant to be a fun and educational family outing. Post Office Box 1497, Middleburg, Virginia 20118 How to do the Scavenger Hunt: 7. Call the Mosby Heritage Area weekdays with your questions at (540) 687-5578. If you reach voicemail, leave a message! 1. Talk your family into the idea. Choose a day to go exploring. Decide who drives, who navigates, and who does the reading 8. Consider using the scavenger hunt with friends or visiting to the others. The student must write their own answers down company—it makes a great tour of western Prince William. in their own handwriting. Put the answers right in this booklet. The Mosby Heritage Area Association: Heritage areas help preserve 2. This scavenger hunt means for you to truly explore western a region’s precious heritage by assisting citizens and visitors in recog- Prince William County. It may take more than a day to do nizing and appreciating it. Founded in 1995, this 1,800 square-mile this. Look at the tour and decide how to break up your tour; it heritage area includes Loudoun, Fauquier, Clarke, and Warren counties plus western Prince William. Civil War cavalry leader John Mosby was is nicely broken in half between stops 8 and 9. taken as the symbol of the heritage area due to his fame and the role he 3. Our prize for completing the scavenger hunt is a cotton Mosby played in the region. With its heart-catching “lay of the land,” distinctive local architecture, handsome farms, historical villages and Heritage Area t-shirt of gray with dark red lettering—“Got small towns, miles of scenic country roads and the world-famous Blue Mosby?” on the front, and “No . Mosby’s Got You” on the Ridge and its foothills, it is worth loving and preserving. The Mosby back with the heritage area logo. A shirt goes to each student Heritage Area is “hallowed ground” since so many soldiers from North who completes their own scavenger hunt in a booklet. Extra and South fought and died here in the Civil War’s most famous and copies of the scavenger hunt can be downloaded from our web deadly guerilla war. The Mosby Heritage Area Association’s mission is site. Additional t-shirts for drivers, friends, brothers or sisters to educate about and support the preservation of the historic, cultural, are available at a special 50% discount price of $10.00 each and scenic resources in the region. We would love to have you join us! ($14.00 postpaid) by calling us at (540) 687-6681. Let us know of your involvement with a family scavenger hunt effort. Learn more about us at: www.mosbyheritagearea.org Part A. Western Prince William Scavenger Hunt. 3. The Hopkins Candy Factory. Leaving the train station waiting room by the track-side door, turn right and walk along 1. BEGIN: The Manassas Museum. Start your tour at the the station platform to Battle Street. Cross Battle Street, then Manassas Museum, 9101 Prince William Street in Manassas. carefully cross the busy railroad tracks. Once across, you’ll see There is parking beside the museum for use during your walking a 3-story brick building on your right—the Candy Factory. Go tour of downtown Manassas. The Museum is open from 10-5 inside, then up the stairs to the candy factory exhibit on the right. Tuesday through Sunday and on federal holiday Mondays. If you This building opened in 1908 as a candy factory for the Hopkins wish to tour the museum, there is a small admission charge. Company. They made hard candy and chocolates and sent them The Manassas Museum is a great place to get oriented to the all over the south in the early 1900s. Later, it was a flour and feed history of Manassas and Prince William County. You can tour it mill. It was once the largest factory building in Manassas. Today, now or come back to it for another day when you have more time. it’s been remodeled as a Center for the Arts. Look at the exhibits. It is a good source for books and pamphlets on Prince William. Question #3: What were the 2 most popular candies made by the Question #1: How many cannons sit on the front lawn of Hopkins Candy Factory 100 years ago when it was operating? the Manassas Museum? At what building do they point? 4. Old Opera House. Turn right out of the candy factory and 2. The Southern Railroad Depot. Walk across Prince William walk one block up Battle Street to Center Street. Turn right; the Street to a red brick train station with a red tile roof facing the third building on your left (the far side of Center Street) is the Manassas Museum. Manassas was originally a railroad junction Conner Opera House. From the late 1800s to the middle of the near the village of Tudor Hall. The Orange & Alexandria Railroad 1900s, most towns of any size had an “opera house.” These cutting south into Virginia intersected here with the Manassas Gap auditoriums were more for concerts, meetings, movies, and other Railroad that ran west into the Shenandoah Valley. Both railroads public events than real operas. This one, built after a major fire in still exist, but with different names. This depot was built in 1914 town, went up in 1906—the pride of Manassas! Several reunions and is a museum of Manassas railroad history, a visitor center, and of Mosby’s Rangers were held here in the early 1900s. The a waiting room for the train. Go first to the museum in the middle. bearded, white-haired Civil War veterans wanted to remember their great adventures as young Confederate soldiers years before. Question #2a: On one side of the museum room, there are two huge iron wheels connected by an axle. Reading the signs on Question #4: What do the big letters on the side of the opera the wall telling about these railroad objects, to what did these house spell? huge wheels belong? 5. Old Town Hall. Continue along Center Street, crossing Main Street until you come to the Old Manassas City Hall on the right. Question #2b: Looking at the waiting room next to the museum Built in 1914, this building used to serve as a firehouse on the first and walking around the depot, which railroads still offer service floor, and a town hall upstairs. Later, it became city hall until it to passengers here? was replaced by a newer building next door in 1987. Today, this handsome building is the symbol of the City of Manassas. Around the side of the building closest to you, you’ll see a huge steel tire hanging from a chain. This was once a locomotive tire, and was Question #6a: Who owned the farm “Mayfield” on which one of three purchased in 1909 to be struck with a metal bar to Mayfield Fort was constructed? [Read the sign at the top.] warn volunteer firemen of a fire. You’ll see a sign that tells more. Question #5: This building was once a firehouse. On which Question #6b: How many stone markers are in the cemetery at side of the building were the fire engine “bays” (doors)? Mayfield Fort? Return to your car by retracing your steps to Main Street, turning 7. Ben Lomond. Turn right out of the parking lot onto Battery left, and going two blocks back to the parking lot of the Manassas Heights Boulevard, then right again onto Quarry Road. Cross the Museum. You will re-cross the railroad tracks on your walk. The divided highway (Liberia) and turn left, to continue on Liberia in remainder of the scavenger hunt will require your automobile. the same direction you had been going. You will be driving on Liberia to the Manassas city limits. At the Prince William County 6. Mayfield Fort. Leaving the Manassas Museum parking lot, line, the same road continues as Lomond Drive. Drive on Liberia turn right onto Prince William Street, then immediately right then Lomond a total of 4.0 miles until you see Garner Street on again onto Main Street. Go 0.5 mile on Main Street to the “T” your right. [If you reach Rt.
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