STAFFORD, Va (7News) — Join us on a road trip to Stafford, Virginia, where we sit down with Stafford County Commissioner of Revenue Scott Mayausky at the historic Government Island.

STAFFORD, Va. – Slaves and free men toiled long days on a small island on Aquia Creek, quarrying the sandstone that was used to build the White House and the Capitol. More than 200 years late… ...

The rugged island, purchased four years ago by the county government, is a rarity in a landscape of instant communities that raised the county's population by more than one-third between 1990 and ...

You can hike through the bedrock of Colonial America in a Stafford County park that opened in November. Government Island is the 17-acre quarry where slaves and free blacks extracted stone for the ...

Today, it’s a peaceful Stafford County park with a mile and a half of wooded trail, rocks, plants and wildlife. But in the 1790s, it was a hub of activity: This island provided the stone for the ...