Dean was born into slavery in Loudoun County on April 15, 1848, and was the daughter of Charles Dean and Annie Stewart Dean. Having secured her freedom as a consequence of the American Civil War (1861–1865), she attended schools in Fairfax County and in Washington, D.C. Dean worked as a domestic servant to help her family purchase a farm in Prince William County after her father’s death and to pay for one of her sisters’ schooling. She attended Sunday school at the First Congregational Church in Washington and later joined the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church there. She never married.
Dean began a lifetime of missionary work and dedication to racial uplift when she founded a Sunday school in Prince William County about 1878. She established additional Sunday schools in the area, several of which became congregations, including Calvary Chapel (later Greater Mount Calvary Christian Church). Dean raised money locally and in northern cities for construction of church buildings. Sh
Manassas to use license plate to commemorate 150th anniversary
The year 2023 marks the 150th Anniversary of the City of Manassas.
One way to celebrate this anniversary is through the creation of a special Virginia license plate featuring the city seal.
The Manassas Historic Resources Board created this special licenses plate in hopes that many of the 36,000 registered city vehicles will show their citypride by pre-purchasing a Manassas license plate.
A minimum of 350 pre-paid applications must be collected by the City before the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will issue the special license plate.
Once that threshold is met, Virginia residents will be able to purchase the license plate directly from the DMV.