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"In more than twenty-five years of field work, I have not seen another site with a comparable diversity of land forms, plants, and natural communities." -Gary Fleming, Ecologist, Virginia DCR
Arlington County. Area 31 square miles. This county, formerly Alexandria County, was formed in 1847 from the part of the District of Columbia retroceded to Virginia. It was named Arlington County in 1920 for Arlington estate. . . . — — Map (db m210362) HM
An extensive line of rifle trenches connected the advance works of Fort Ethan Allen and Fort Marcy and extended to the west bank of the Potomac River. Auxiliary batteries for the field guns, strategically placed, provided additional strength to . . . — — Map (db m3079) HM
On September 11, 1861, Lt. Orlando Poe led a party of U.S. Army Topographical Engineers to map the area around Lewinsville for military use. Col. Isaac Stevens and 1,800 men protected the engineers. Stevens’s command included the 79th New York . . . — — Map (db m208587) HM
“Benvenue” was part of the 3402 acre “Woodberry” estate granted by Lord Fairfax in 1724 to George Turberville. Charles Lee Corbin Turberville was deeded 400 acres in 1796, which included 198 acres that became known as . . . — — Map (db m178) HM
On July 16, 1970 — two days after county residents voted to raise their own taxes to buy this land — bulldozers began uprooting trees to replace this forest with 309 houses. The development plan failed because of a fight waged by . . . — — Map (db m125175) HM
Lincolnville, a farming community that developed along Kirby Road after the Civil War, was renamed Chesterbrook ca. 1897. The "First Colored Baptist Church of Fairfax County" was founded ca. 1866 by Reverend Cyrus Carter. The one-room Chesterbrook . . . — — Map (db m100884) HM
The high-water marks seem hard to believe, but powerful Potomac River waters sometimes cover this area. How can that happen? High water occurs at least once a year when all the rocks in the falls are covered. Floods occur about every 10 years . . . — — Map (db m194509) HM
Civil War Defenses of Washington 1861-1865 The earthworks and other visible remnants of Fort Marcy and related batteries still remain. Fort Marcy was built in 1862 to protect the Chain Bridge approach to Washington, D.C. — — Map (db m42258) HM
The Virginia approaches to the Chain Bridge were guarded by Fort Marcy on the old Leesburg Turnpike and Fort Ethan Allen on the Military Road. The sites were occupied by Union troops on September 24, 1861, and the earthworks completed in short . . . — — Map (db m70682) HM
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Great Falls Canal and Locks Constructed 1785-1802. Operated until 1821 ——— These works were the major feature of the first river navigation system for trade with the west. This pioneer waterway was . . . — — Map (db m4975) HM
Two 18th-century roads intersect just west of here: Sugarlands Rolling Road (now Georgetown Pike) and Little Falls Road (now Chain Bridge Road). Several historic structures stand near the fork: Langley Toll House (ca. 1820); Langley Ordinary (ca. . . . — — Map (db m2328) HM
This mighty chasm, carved by the
Potomac River, below Great Falls
is dedicated and named
in memory of
Stephen T. Mather
July 4, 1867 - January 22, 1930
With untiring enthusiasm for the National Park Idea, he served as first . . . — — Map (db m101720) HM
These rocks mark the site of of a building of the now-vanished town of Matildaville. Founded in 1790, the town was planned as an industrial community which would profit from its location on the canal. It once boasted a forge, gristmill, store, . . . — — Map (db m194054) HM
McLean originated in this vicinity after the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad began operating in 1906. Its tracks crossed Chain Bridge Road between the villages of Lewinsville and Langley, near the Ingleside community. By 1910 the . . . — — Map (db m181) HM
The McLean Volunteer Fire Department incorporated in 1923 in Fairfax County. A two-bay firehouse was built and a Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1925. Construction of a rear addition in 1932 provided work during the Depression and offered space needed . . . — — Map (db m197001) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m5610) HM
No. 2 Stone of N.W. Leg
Washington-Lee Society
Children of
The American Revolution
Thomas Nelson Chapter D.A.R.
October 12, 1969 — — Map (db m154765) HM
George Washington had a marvelous idea—turn the Potomac River into a navigable waterway linking the East Coast with the Ohio River Valley. To do so, the Patowmack Company, which he helped form, dredged portions of the riverbed and built a . . . — — Map (db m125186) HM
Great Falls Park The Potomac River is the second largest watershed feeding the Chesapeake Bay. Early peoples depended on the river for food and made their homes along its banks. European settlers saw the river as a source for transportation, . . . — — Map (db m4972) HM
The Potomac River begins as a small spring near Fairfax Stone, West Virginia. Like a giant funnel it gathers water from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia as it travels 383 miles to the Chesapeake Bay. . . . — — Map (db m4973) HM
Salona was built on part of the 1719 Thomas Lee 2,862 acre grant known as Langley. During the War of 1812, the estate's owner, the Rev. William Maffitt, reputedly gave refuge to President James Madison as the British burned Washington. Civil War . . . — — Map (db m65488) HM
These rock walls mark the site of a house built in the late 1790's by the Patowmack Company. Intended for the Canal Superintendent and his family, the house took so long to build that only one of the superintendents ever lived in it. Later it was . . . — — Map (db m211318) HM
This building, dedicated in 1988 by William and Dara Laughlin, replaced a long-standing McLean landmark. In 1906, Matthew J. Laughlin, owner of a nearby dairy farm, purchased this lot. He built a residence/store here, which became a focal point of . . . — — Map (db m57488) HM
This canal, skirting the 76-foot drop of the Great Falls of the Potomac, was the most demanding and complex of the five canals built by the Patowmack Company. The company was founded by George Washington on May 17, 1785 to improve the Potomac . . . — — Map (db m2096) HM
The shallow ditch behind this sign marks the bed of the Great Falls portion of the Patowmack Canal. A system of by-passes to provide riverboats easy passage around waterfalls in the Potomac River; it was promoted by George Washington, and built . . . — — Map (db m49411) HM
Mr. Claude Moore was a philanthropist who donated $250,000 in the 1980s to keep the Turkey Run Farm alive as the only privately owned and operated national park.
The Farm then changed its name to the Claude Moore Colonial Farm.
Why . . . — — Map (db m70681) HM
William Watters (1751-1827) was appointed to a circuit at the first American Methodist Conference in Philadelphia in 1773, making him the first officially appointed American-born Methodist itinerant circuit rider. During the Revolutionary War . . . — — Map (db m100972) HM
Graduate U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1837, 8th in Class Resigned Commission to serve with Confederate Army May 1861-April 1865 Adjutant General to General Albert S. Johnston Commanded at Island No. 10, taken prisoner, later exchanged . . . — — Map (db m20398) HM
