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Belvoir (plantation)

Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family.

Belvoir (plantation)
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The place

Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the labor of slaves, it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Belvoir (plantation)

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Piscataway Park

    Piscataway Park is a National Park Service–protected area located 20 miles southwest of downtown Washington, D.C. in and around Accokeek, Maryland. It protects the National Colonial Farm, Marshall Hall, and the Accokeek Creek Site.

    3.2 km · United States National Park Service unit in Prince George’s and Charles counties · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Belvoir (plantation)

Airports
Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 21 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 41 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 68 km
  • Dulles → Belvoir (plantation)
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · $4.5–6
  • Baltimore → Belvoir (plantation)
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · $7–9
  • Richmond → Belvoir (plantation)
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What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDCAcar , offers private group tours to George Washingtons Mount Vernon with vans, minibuses and charter buses.

From Wikivoyage: Mount Vernon (Virginia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Next door to Belvoir (plantation)

Belvoir (plantation) is 25 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.