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- Batestown,_Virginia abstract "Batestown is an extinct unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia. The town was located along the farthest terminus of Mine Road in what is now a western neighborhood of Dumfries along the banks of Quantico Creek. It was an enclave for freed slaves named for Mary Bates, the matriarch of the community.Batestown and Hickory Ridge both suffered the same fate. Between 1933 and 1937, the Federal Government began implementing a Resettlement Administration program to form Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area, where rural farmers were supposed to relocate for more fertile land. The RA bought 79 pieces of property in both Hickory Ridge and Batestown and condemned another 48, to form a new recreation area. However, the RA often made no effort to actually resettle the displaced residents.The area residents resisted the relocation efforts, sometimes retreating into the park boundaries to escape detection. This continued until the beginning of World War II, where the park was taken over by the Office of Strategic Services as a spy training ground. The park was surrounded by barbed wire and fences, and patrolled by dogs and armed guards. All remaining forty-four holdouts were evicted, some literally carried away screaming.At the end of the war, the displaced residents hoped their land would be restored, but to date these families have received no compensation. Instead, the property was turned over to the National Park Service and renamed Prince William Forest Park.".
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- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageRevisionID "597773801".
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_populated_places_in_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Populated_places_in_Prince_William_County,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Dumfries,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Hickory_Ridge,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_former_counties,_cities,_and_towns_of_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink National_Park_Service.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Office_of_Strategic_Services.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Prince_William_County,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Prince_William_Forest_Park.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Quantico_Creek.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Recreational_Demonstration_Area.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Resettlement_Administration.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Unincorporated_area.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Batestown".
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Batestown, Virginia".
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Batestown,_Virginia wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Prince_William_County,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia subject Category:Former_populated_places_in_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia subject Category:Populated_places_in_Prince_William_County,_Virginia.
- Batestown,_Virginia hypernym Community.
- Batestown,_Virginia point "38.580666666666666 -77.31202777777777".
- Batestown,_Virginia type Community.
- Batestown,_Virginia type Place.
- Batestown,_Virginia type Settlement.
- Batestown,_Virginia type Community.
- Batestown,_Virginia type Place.
- Batestown,_Virginia type SpatialThing.
- Batestown,_Virginia comment "Batestown is an extinct unincorporated community in Prince William County, Virginia. The town was located along the farthest terminus of Mine Road in what is now a western neighborhood of Dumfries along the banks of Quantico Creek. It was an enclave for freed slaves named for Mary Bates, the matriarch of the community.Batestown and Hickory Ridge both suffered the same fate.".
- Batestown,_Virginia label "Batestown, Virginia".
- Batestown,_Virginia sameAs Q4868845.
- Batestown,_Virginia sameAs m.0cgct9.
- Batestown,_Virginia sameAs Batestown.
- Batestown,_Virginia sameAs Q4868845.
- Batestown,_Virginia lat "38.580666666666666".
- Batestown,_Virginia long "-77.31202777777777".
- Batestown,_Virginia wasDerivedFrom Batestown,_Virginia?oldid=597773801.
- Batestown,_Virginia isPrimaryTopicOf Batestown,_Virginia.