"One of Bull Run's tributaries is Popes Head Creek, a stream whose strange name, possibly taken from a street name in London, 1 first appeared in the Northern Neck Grants in 1710. Present-day Fairfax County still lay within the boundaries of Stafford County, and Englishmen were eagerly taking up lands on what was then the frontier."
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