Events on Pohick Creek
Here on Pohick Creek the second George Mason settled in 1690. Here the Iroquois Indians, by a treaty of 1722, agreed to deliver up runaway slaves. The fourth George Mason wished to build Pohick Church on the creek, but was overruled by George Washington.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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