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Near Potomac Hills Street, 0.6 miles east of Jeffery Road.
Prehistoric people arrived along the shores of the Potomac River some 13,000 years ago. Slowly they transformed from semi-nomadic hunters into farmers and fishermen. Eventually, a group called the Nacotchtanks became the dominant tribe of the . . . — — Map (db m64316) HM
On Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) north of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling west.
Welcome
Welcome to Colvin Run Mill Historic Site. Colvin Run Mill is a tribute to industrial innovation and the working people who made it happen. However, our historic mill (c. 1811), Miller's House (c. 1809), and General Store (c. 1900) . . . — — Map (db m198241) HM
Near Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) north of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling north.
Freedom Hill Chapter
National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
commemorates the significance of
Colvin Run Mill
as a tribute to the American craftsman
and to the rich historical legacy of
Fairfax County
Mill . . . — — Map (db m198249) HM
Late afternoon on June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart began assembling his cavalry brigades at Dranesville. To avoid the Union Army of the Potomac (90,000-strong) then crossing the Potomac upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart ordered . . . — — Map (db m59678) HM
On Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193) near Innsbruck Road, on the right when traveling west.
Once the site of a Forestville School, this building has served the citizens of the Great Falls community for a century. Constructed alongside the Georgetown Pike in 1889, the school consisted of one room until 1911 when a second building, the . . . — — Map (db m2181) HM
On Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193) 0.1 miles east of Stephanie Circle, on the right when traveling west.
Company 12 began as an auxiliary to the McLean VFD as part of the County's World War II Civil Defense. Its name changed to Great Falls VFD Nov. 7, 1955. The bell from the first Forestville School moved here when a new school was built on this site. . . . — — Map (db m182175) HM
Near Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) north of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling north.
After Emma Millard's death in 1919, her sons Alfred and Samuel continued to operate the mill. Alfred lived in the house and kept a formal garden in this spot. Formal gardens were common at the time, kept both as a hobby and to showcase the home's . . . — — Map (db m198248) HM
On Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193) at Seneca Road (Virginia Route 602), on the right when traveling south on Georgetown Pike.
Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, operating well east of Gen. Robert E. Lee, consolidated three brigades of about 5,000 cavalry and horse artillery here on the evening of 27 June 1863. Separated from Lee by the vast Union army then crossing the . . . — — Map (db m198250) HM
On Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) north of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling north.
The architecture at Colvin Run Mill has changed over time. Remnants of the modifications the Millard family made during their more than 50 years in the Miller's House are still visible.
On the side of the house, you can see an upside-down . . . — — Map (db m198245) HM
On Springvale Road (County Route 674) at Wynkoop Drive, on the right when traveling south on Springvale Road.
Just to the southeast were radar and other control equipment that formed a portion of one of three Nike anti-aircraft missile complexes in Fairfax County. The site was operated by the U.S. Army between 1954 and 1962. Established during the Cold War . . . — — Map (db m2091) HM
On Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193) west of Village Centre, on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
The year was 1942, and citizens of Great Falls were concerned that bombings, like those of London, might occur in Washington, DC. In a time of great threats, including attacks on major cities, a handful of Great Falls area citizens came together to . . . — — Map (db m60489) HM
On Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) east of Robindale Road, on the right when traveling west.
Colvin Run Road is a remnant of an 18th-century wagon road from the Shenandoah Valley to Alexandria that probably originated as an Indian path. George Washington passed by here in 1753 and 1754 en route to persuade the French on the Ohio River to . . . — — Map (db m1861) HM
Near Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) north of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling west.
The mill at Colvin Run dates to the early 1800s, but the local landscape continued to evolve. Mill operators and owners added new buildings and modified existing ones to meet changing technology, work, or family needs. Early outbuildings included . . . — — Map (db m198242) HM
On Potomac Hills Street, 0.6 miles east of Jeffery Road, on the left when traveling east.
George Washington walked, rode horseback, and boated through this region pursuing his dream of westward expansion—connecting the Atlantic seaboard to the frontier West. His efforts to reengineer, dam, channelize, and straighten the Potomac River . . . — — Map (db m182174) HM
On Seneca Connector Trail just east of Seneca Road (Virginia Route 602), on the left when traveling east.
George Washington walked, rode horseback, and boated through this region pursuing his dream of westward expansion—connecting the Atlantic Seaboard to the frontier West. His efforts to reengineer, dam, channelize, and straighten the Potomac River . . . — — Map (db m197946) HM
On Potomac Hills Street, 0.6 miles east of Jeffery Road, on the left when traveling east.
Invasion of Washington City
Following the defeat of American militia forces by British regulars at Bladensburg, Maryland on the afternoon of August 24, 1814, a small British force, consisting mainly of officers, marched into the capital . . . — — Map (db m102960) HM
On Seneca Road, on the right when traveling north.
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsvile in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into . . . — — Map (db m59675) HM
Near Seneca Connector Trail east of Seneca Road (Virginia Route 602), on the left when traveling east.
A mature deciduous forest, rich in American beech, oak, tulip poplar, and hickory trees, blankets and ancient headland of the Potomac River Gorge, white sycamore, silver maple, and boxelder trees dominate the flood-washed lowlands. A quiet . . . — — Map (db m197947) HM
Near Seneca Connector Trail east of Seneca Road (Virginia Route 602), on the left when traveling east.
The half-buried stones you see here were part of a house once occupied by Irish-born Stephen and Eliza Kelley. Although Kelleys owned 190 acres nearby, they were living in this house on Gilbert Vanderwerken's property in the 1870s.
The red . . . — — Map (db m197948) HM
Near Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) west of Leesburg Pike (Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling west.
The stately Miller's House was built circa 1809 in the Federal style. For more than a century it was home to the families who operated Colvin Mill Run. Philip Carper of Frederick, Maryland, bought the property in 1811, though we don't know if he . . . — — Map (db m198246) HM
On Springvale Road (County Route 673) just south of Georgetown Pike (Virginia Route 193).
Here, at a former Nike missile site, the U.S. Army
Map Service established a research station to
support geo-location and navigation in 1961. Two
years later, the Map Service Initiated a significant
satellite tracking program that became part . . . — — Map (db m104755) HM
On Colvin Run Road (Virginia Route 743) east of Robindale Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The United States Congress, attempting to use economic pressure to lift British and French trade restrictions, imposed on American shipping during the Napoleonic Wars, passed the Embargo Act of 1807. Ships were not permitted to leave American . . . — — Map (db m198240) HM
Near Seneca Road, on the right when traveling north.
This will become the great avenue into the Western Country. - George Washington
The stone wall you see nearby is not just any stone wall; it was built here in the late 1700s as part of George Washington's . . . — — Map (db m59681) HM
