Dumfries, Virginia This article is about the town in the United States.
Dumfries, Virginia Town of Dumfries Official seal of Dumfries, Virginia Location in Prince William County and the state of Virginia.
Location in Prince William County and the state of Virginia.
Dumfries, officially the Town of Dumfries, is a town in Prince William County, Virginia.
The populace was 4,961 at the 2010 United States Census.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km ), all of it land.
The town is situated 78 miles north of the state capital, Richmond.
Dumfries history began as early as 1690 when Richard Gibson erected a gristmill on Quantico Creek.
The Town of Dumfries was formally established on 60 acres (240,000 m2) of territory at the head of the harbor of Quantico Creek, provided by John Graham.
He titled the town after his birthplace, Dumfries, Scotland. After much political maneuvering, the General Assembly established Dumfries as the first of seven townships in the county.
Dumfries received its charter on May 11, 1749, making it the earliest continuously chartered town in Virginia.
The Ceremonial Seal of the Town of Dumfries embodies elements of its heritage, from the reconstructionof 1651, when the first patents were issued to colonists, who following the Potomac recognized the value of a snug harbor in Quantico Creek.
Thus the foundations for the establishment of a town, which in 1749 received its charter from the Colonial government in Williamsburg, Virginia.
They are overlaid on a chart of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River, with Dumfries pointed out at the head of Quantico Creek.
The thistle indicates the Scottish framers of the town, with the name of Dumfries, taken by John Graham, the founder, with respect to his home in Scotland.
When Dumfries became the second dominant port in Colonial America receiving tobacco from the upland, it rivaled New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
For about 15 years Dumfries was a grow port when a several factors brought about its demise: the Revolutionary War, erosion and siltation, and the shift in the chief shipping commodity (from tobacco to wheat and sugar).
The Dumfries Cemetery includes burials of some of the Dumfries pioneers.
Alexander Henderson assembled a home known as the Henderson House which still stands on a hill in Dumfries, as well as owning various territory in Prince William Forest Park.
Dumfries was combined with the improve of Triangle, Virginia to form Dumfries-Triangle in the 1950 United States Census.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 35.0% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 4.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $43,672, and the median income for a family was $46,927.
Residents of Dumfries are presently represented in the Virginia House of Delegates by L.
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