Neabsco Iron Works

Its activities included farming, leatherworking, milling, shipbuilding, shoemaking, and smithing, as well as supplying raw materials used as weaponry during the American Revolution.

Established around 1737, By John Tayloe I, a wealthy Virginia land owner, who owned several iron works.

The works shut down around 1820 as it could no longer compete with cheaper iron being produced in the North and had exhausted its supply of abundant, available fire wood.

Slag from Iron blasting litter the terraced work areas on the slope above the two furnace locations.

The Creek and Neabsco Harbor are now silted in due to deforesting for tobacco farming and rampant development upstream.

As a reference, the Neabsco Industrial plantation, contained an approximate area from South at Powell's Creek to North at the Occoquan River, East at Route one, and West at a north–south line drawn at Bonita Fitzgerald Drive.