Haymarket, Virginia Haymarket, Virginia Town of Haymarket Location in Prince William County and the state of Virginia.
Location in Prince William County and the state of Virginia.
Haymarket is positioned in Prince William region Haymarket - Haymarket Show map of Prince William region Location in Prince William County and the state of Virginia.
County Prince William Haymarket is a town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States.
Built in 1883 in Greek Revival and Victorian style to act as both a schoolhouse and town hall, in 2001 it became the Haymarket Museum.
Haymarket owes its locale to the Iroquois as the center of the town was their hunting path.
Due to the use of the region as hunting paths, the location, and later the town, was given the nickname The Crossroads.
The town of Haymarket was formally established in 1799 on the territory of William Skinker.
The Virginia General Assembly gave Skinker the rights to lay out the town, which he drew to consist of 13 streets and 140 lots.
Six years later in 1807, the Virginia General Assembly abolished the precinct court in favor of the circuit court fitness that was to be positioned at each county seat.
During the Civil War, on November 4, 1862, Union troops invaded Haymarket, setting the entire town ablaze.
Haymarket was incorporated in 1882, the second town in Prince William County to do so.
While no schools are positioned with the town, the region is now home to 5 schools all part of the Prince William County School System. In the 1970s amid the assembly of the Interstate System, Haymarket became Exit 40 of Interstate 66, giving way to the town's boss away from a non-urban town, as well as its populace boom.
Paul's Church in Haymarket.
In 1994 The Walt Disney Company bought extensive amounts of territory in Haymarket for a proposed Disney's America infamous park. Local resistance to the resort led to its end as a viable idea. William B.
Snyder, a small-town business man convinced Disney to sell the property to him. Snyder, in turn, sold off most of the territory to developers, except for the 405 acres (1.64 km2) donated to the National Capital Area Council who used the territory to problematic Camp Snyder. Atlas, and Old Town Hall and School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Haymarket is positioned at 38 48 46 N 77 38 6 W (38.812670, 77.635084). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all of it land.
The greater town of Haymarket (ZIP code 20169) has a total region of 32.2 square miles (83.4 km2), with 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2) of water. In the town, the populace was spread out with 30.1% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 42.3% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 3.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Haymarket Elementary School opened September 2, 2014 after an August 19, 2014 ribbon cutting ceremony. The town of Haymarket is patrolled by the Haymarket Police Department along with the Prince William County Police department and Virginia State Police.
Roop resigned in 2015 amid a scandal and state investigation into the Haymarket Police Department. The biggest Pick Your Own Spring flower Festival in the United States is positioned just two miles from downtown Haymarket.
"Town Council".
Town of Haymarket.
Historical Information retrieved October 30, 2013.
Prince William County Schools retrieved October 30, 2013.
The Disney Drawing Board Disney's America retrieved October 30, 2013.
US Enumeration Bureau, retrieved October 30, 2013.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Haymarket Elementary School - Start Page".
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