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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RU_belvoir_Fort-Belvoir-VA.html
Belvoir, meaning "beautiful to see," was built about 1741 for William Fairfax, land agent for his cousin Thomas, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron and Northern Neck proprietor. George Washington was introduced to Belvoir and its gentry culture while …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RS_fort-belvoir_Fort-Belvoir-VA.html
Fort Belvoir is named for the 18th-century plantation that was owned by William Fairfax. The house burned in 1783. The U.S. War Department acquired much of the Belvoir tract in 1912 as a training center and named it Camp A. A. Humphreys for Maj. G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KW_ira-noel-gabrielson_Oakton-VA.html
Oakton resident Dr. Ira Noel Gabrielson was a pioneer conservationist, distinguished field ornithologist, and renowned author. He served as the first director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and an international leader of conservation projec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KU_waples-mill_Oakton-VA.html
Approximately 1,200 feet southeast of this marker, on the west side of Difficult Run, was located Waple's Mill. George Henry Waple built it in 1867. For twenty-three years beginning in 1890 the grist and sawmill was owned and operated by Edward Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K1_devereux-station_Clifton-VA.html
In 1863, during the Civil War, Pennsylvanian Herman Haupt, a noted bridge designer and the superintendent of Union military railroads, commissioned John Devereux, the railroad superintendent in Alexandria, to build a siding on the Orange & Alexand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4K0_ivakota-farm_Clifton-VA.html
On this land stood Ivakota Farm, founded as a Progressive Era reform school and home for unwed mothers and their children. In 1915 Ella Shaw donated her 264-acre farm to the National Florence Crittenton Mission (NFCM). Named for the states where s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4JX_fort-buffalo_Falls-Church-VA.html
Nearby once stood Fort Buffalo. Thisearthwork fortification was built by the 21st New York Infantry of the Union army in 1861 and named for the troops' hometown. During the Civil War, a concentration of forts existed in the Seven Corners section o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4J9_little-river-turnpike_Annandale-VA.html
The earliest private turnpike charter in Virginia was granted by the General Assembly to the Company of the Fairfax and Loudoun Turnpike Road in 1796. By 1806 the 34-mile-long road connected Alexandria with Aldie on the Little River in Loudoun Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4DB_the-origins-of-lake-accotink_West-Springfield-VA.html
Indigenous People. The original inhabitants of the lands around Accotink Creek lived as semi-sedentary hunters and gatherers who moved seasonally to fallow game. These peoples spoke varying forms of the Algonquin language. The river system provide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM47N_masons-hill_Annandale-VA.html
During the Civil War, Confederate Col. J. E.B. Stuart used Mason's Hill and nearby Munson's Hill as outposts for the First Virginia Cavalry from late July to the end of Sept. 1861. Capt. Edward Porter Alexander of the Signal Corps established a si…