Occoquan, Virginia's Embrace of Old and New

The small town balances a strong historic aesthetic with lots of new construction

I recently visited Occoquan, a historic riverside town at the northern edge of Virginia’s Prince William County about 40 minutes south of Washington, D.C. Like so many quaint little towns, Occoquan is small, exclusive, a little boutiquey, and has traded whatever commercial purpose it once had for more or less being a D.C. and Northern Virginia bedroom c…