Virginia: Fairfax County History Commission
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XW_the-orange-and-alexandria-railroad-trestle_West-Springfield-VA.html
The original bridge crossing Accotink Creek was built in 1851 as part of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. During the Civil War the wooden trestle was an attractive target for Confederate soldiers. In his 28 Dec. 1862 raid on Burke's Station, Confederate …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2FS_salisbury-plain_Chantilly-VA.html
This land was the eastern most boundary of a 3,111 acre grant, known as Salisbury Plain, acquired by Henry Lee from Thomas 6th Lord Fairfax in 1725 when it was part of the Stafford County frontier. This area became Prince William County in 1730, Fairfax Cou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2Z5_manassas-gap-railroad-independent-line_Fairfax-VA.html
The Independent Line of the Manassas Gap Railroad ran through this area. Conceived to extend the Manassas Gap Railroad to Alexandria, grading on this part of the line began in September 1854. Financial problems stopped the work in May 1857. In various place…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM37V_odricks-corner_McLean-VA.html
In 1872 Alfred Odrick, a former slave and carpenter, purchased 30 acres and built a house on the south side of Lewinsville Road, later intersected by Spring Hill Road to form Odrick's Corner. By 1879 a one-room schoolhouse, Odrick's School, had been built t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3LS_newington_Lorton-VA.html
Newington was the name given to the second Truro Parish Glebe House completed in 1760 after it became the private residence of Richard and Sarah McCarty Chichester after 1767. The William Nevitt family acquired the house and 1000 acre tract in 1828 and occu…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3MJ_the-guinea-road-cemetery-reinterment_Annandale-VA.html
Virginia aristocrat William Fitzhugh was granted 21,996 acres in 1694: The Ravensworth tract, which was divided into northern and southern halves in 1701 and subsequently subdivided among Fitzhugh heirs throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The cemetery l…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3QQ_baileys-crossroads_Falls-Church-VA.html
In 1837 Hachaliah Bailey (1774-1845) from Westchester County, New York, purchased 526 acres in the northeast quadrant formed by the intersection of Leesburg and Columbia Pikes. Here he built his home, known as "Moray," which was destroyed by fire in 1942. B…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3X6_manassas-gap-railroad-independent-line_Centreville-VA.html
The roadbed of the Independent Line of the Manassas Gap Railroad ran through this area. Conceived to extend the Manassas Gap Railroad from Gainesville to Alexandria, grading on this part of the line began in September 1854. The nearby stone bridge abutments…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 she had liv…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 Millard. It …