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Chantilly Baptist Church and Cemetery
The church was founded in 1880 by Revered Marshall D. Williams of Prince William with a service held in a “little log schoolhouse.” The first trustees appointed were William H. Newman, Abeham Edwards, John Monroe, Levi Harris, Benjamin Bias, John…
Cub Run Primitive Baptist Church
Cub Run Primitive Church was a spiritual center of the Bull Run community, founded by African Americans descended from enslaved people manumitted by Robert Carter’s Deed of Gift. The present building was built on land donated by Anthony Harris in the…
Cub Run Colored School
Around 1887, a one-room schoolhouse for African American children was constructed near Cub Run and was called the Cub Run School. The one-room Cub Run School was deemed inadequate for the growing population in 1928. Land was acquired from the…
Mount Olive Church
The Mount Olive Church was organized as the Montezuma Baptist Church around 1885 in Centreville, Virginia, in what was known as "Uniontown" and later recognized as "Bush Town." The Montezuma Baptist Church was admitted into the Northern Virginia…
Robinson's Mill/Lane's Mill
James Pendleton Robinson, like his grandfather James “Gentleman Jim” Robinson of Prince William County, after emancipation, became a prominent member in the community. Robinson owned a farm opposite Nestor Kincheloe’s mill at the confluence of Big…
Alta Lee Dairy
Lawrence and Gladys Lee purchased a 120-acre dairy farm located on Centreville Road in 1945. The farm, like their daughter, was called Alta Lee. Alta recalled a carefree childhood centered on family, school, and church, spending time riding horses…