Provided by City of Manassas Economic Development Department
Manassas Fall-O-Ween
Time for all things PUMPKIN! 
Pack up the gang for our Old Town Manassas Fall-O-Ween, Oct. 26, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Manassas Museum Lawn!
Come for Halloween-themed treats, arts & crafts, interactive kids’ games, and fun entertainment. PLUS …
- 1 p.m. Kids Halloween Costume Parade when little ones can show off their creative costumes with prizes awarded.
- 2:30 p.m. Pets Costume Parade! Cute costumes are encouraged with prizes for the top dogs (or cats!).
Click HERE for Old Town Manassas Fall-O-Ween
Partner Spotlight: ARTfactory
BOO!
The ARTfactory, housed in the brick 1907 Hopkins Candy Factory, will be transformed into a Factory of Fear, The Horror Hotel. Since the Brenton Hotel was once on this site in the late 1860s, “The Horror Hotel” theme was chosen for this ticketed event, Oct. 17 and 18 AND Oct. 24 and 25, from 6 to 11 p.m. Click HERE for $25 online tickets or pay $30 at the door.
Each of the factory’s four floors will be transformed into an eerie, spooky theme, so grab your bravest and boldest buddies, and get ready for a world like no other!
NOTE: Special Preview Night is Oct. 16, 7 to 9 p.m.; click HERE for $15 tickets.
Hints of History: Veterans coming together
Dated Oct. 1, 1908, this photo from the Manassas Museum Online Collection shows Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands on the Manassas battlefield, forever protected since 1936 as Manassas National Battlefield Park, only six miles northwest from the City of Manassas. At left, veterans shake hands, holding a white flag, while the women at right hold an American flag. According to Manassas Museum Curator, Mary Helen Dellinger, there were several veterans’ reunions on the battlefield over the years; this photo is one of those.
Four years before that 1908 photo, those same fields were overrun with thousands of troops in September 1904. But this time, the site was chosen for staging the first peacetime maneuvers on American soil (referred to as “1904 Army Manuevers“). The event was not a reenactment, but rather a training exercise that studied the experiences and basis for battle plans of the two Civil War battles fought there: First Manassas, July 21, 1861 and Second Manassas, August 28 to 30, 1862.
One of the leaders of The Maneuvers was local George Carr Round (1839-1918), a Union Civil War officer born in Pennsylvania, for whom George C. Round Elementary School is named. Round is pictured below, credited with being the “original promoter of the Army Maneuvers,” shown in his 1864 Signal Lieutenant’s uniform in the Maneuvers brochure. The caption includes he was “commissioned by Abraham Lincoln to rank from March 3, 1863.”
After the Civil War, Round settled in Manassas and worked to bring the North and South together and was instrumental in organizing the Manassas Jubilee of Peace on July 21, 1911, the 50th anniversary of First Manassas.
With Veterans Day approaching Nov. 11, we reflect on the freedoms our nation experiences today, thanks to the dedication and sacrifice of many.
Prince William Reliquary Article on The Maneuvers, January 2010
