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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 540 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANASSAS  , a

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district of
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Prince
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William
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county,
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Virginia, and a
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town of the district, about 3o m . W.S.W. of Washing-ton, D.C . Pop . (191o) of the district, 3381; of the town, 1217 . The
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village of Manassas (in the town), known also as Manassas Junction, is served by the Chesapeake &
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Ohio and the
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Southern
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railways .
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North of the junction is
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Bull Run, a small stream which empties into the Occoquan, an
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arm of the
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Potomac . In this neighbourhood two important battles of the
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American
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Civil
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War, the first and second battles of Bull Run, were fought on the 21st of
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July 1861 and on the 29th-3oth of
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August 1862 respectively; by Southern historians these battles are called the battles of Manassas . At Manassas is the Manassas
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Industrial School for Coloured Youth (non-sectarian; privately supported), which was founded in 1892 and opened in 1894; in 1908–1909 it had nine teachers (all negroes) and 121 pupils, all in elementary grades .

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