On March 11, 1748, George Washington and George William Fairfax crossed the Occoquan above the falls near here, with Washington entering the service of Lord Fairfax and Fairfax going to meet his constituents in Frederick County. They traveled on horseback along an unmarked route roughly paralleling the Davis Ford-Minnieville corridor to the Court House near Independent Hill. By evening they had reached Neavil’s Ordinary on the south fork of the Dumfries Road, 40 miles from Ft. Belvoir, where they had begun.