Those Places Thursday: Belleview Female Seminary

Alexandria Gazette
15 December 1835

BELLEVIEW FEMALE SEMINARY,
Prince William County, Virginia,

Is situated near a good turnpike road, 30 miles from Alexandria, 45 from Fredericksburg, and 4 north of Haymarket, and between farms of Stuart G. Thornton, Esq. and Dr. Charles B. Stuart. The situation is one of the healthiest in Virginia.

MRS. MAXWELL, grateful for the encouragement she has received since opening the above, begs leave to inform her friends and the public, that she has made arrangements for the reception of an additional number of young ladies as boarders. Every attention shall be paid to their manners, morals and general improvement. Mrs. Maxwell has had several years experience as a teacher, and her system has been approved in Europe and N. America, as being eminently calculated for the attainment of a solid, useful, and polite education. 

References: Stuart G. Thornton, Esq., Dr. Charles B. Stuart, Snow-Hill, Prince William County; Hon. John Taliaferro, King George County; Mathew Carey, Esq. and Rev. Alexander McCoskry, Philadelphia.

Terms: Board and tuition in Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammer, Geography, with use of maps and globe, History Ancient and Modern, Mythology, Natural Philosophy, Needle Work, muslin, lace, rice, bead, rug, cloth and filagree work, per annum, payable quarterly in advance, $100. Bed and bedding $7. French $16. Music, with use of piano, $24. Day pupils in all the English branches, with works, $16. -- Junior class $12. Embroidery per quarter $8. Shell and Wax work each do. $6. Oriental, Mezotinto, Velvet and Satin Painting, each do. $6. Drawing do. $6.

Belleview, near Haymarket, Dec. 15, 1835.

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Those Places Thursday: Bids for Sites

Fredericksburg Free Lance (Va)
15 April 1909

BIDS FOR SITES

ONE THOUSAND ACRE TRACTS NEAR THIS CITY OFFERED TO GOVERNMENT - PRICES VARY

Bids were opened in Washington for the sale to the District of two tracts of land to be used as sites for new workhouse and reformatory buildings to replace the present penal institutions along the Eastern branch.  There were thirty-four bids, some offering sites for both institutions and others offering only one site.

The District asked for proposals to sell to the District two tracts of land widely separated, of not less than 1,000 acres each, either or both to be situated in the states of Maryland or Virginia.

Among the bids were the following:

Wm. Metzger, Woodbridge, 1,100 acres in Prince William county, $42,000, or $36.21 per acre.

B. B. Detweller, 1,287 acres near Quantico, $18,000.

John S. Barbour, 1,400 acres in Prince William and Fairfax counties, $40,000.

Charles H. Rhoades, 1,185 acres near Gainesville and Haymarket, $33,000.

J. A. Marshall, 1,750 acres near Occoquan, $35,000.

Butler-Taliaferro Co., 1,218 acres in Stafford county, near Brooke station, $30,000.

C. B. Robinson and Dora Robinson, 1,035 acres on Potomac river near Reid station, in Stafford and Prince William counties, $33 per acre.

Charles M. Wyeth et al, $1,000 acres near Fredericksburg, $23 per acre.

Oscar B. Billingsley, 1,000 acres on Potomac river, eighteen miles below Colonial Beach, at $20 per acre.

Oscar H. Billingsley, 1,180 acres at Freestone Point, $35,400.

Horace H. Wescott and O. G. Pessona, 1,057 acres in Prince William county, near Gainesville, $37.21 per acre, or $40,000.

R. J. Marshall & Co., 1,500 acres in Prince William county, opposite Indian Head, fronting on Potomac river, $36,000.