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The intersection of Hunter Mill Road and Chain Bridge Road marks the center of historic Oakton. The community took its name from the massive oak tree that stood at this corner until Hurricane Isabel in 2005.
Three buildings stood on this . . . — — Map (db m184078) HM
Here in 1934, at her home Harmony Farm, Florence Jodzies founded the Vale Home Demonstration Club, affiliated with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. An excellent speaker and writer, Jodzies campaigned for better living conditions in rural . . . — — Map (db m240415) HM
Before you is Flint Hill Cemetery, the resting place of many of this area's most prominent Civil War-era civilian and military figures. Twenty-four veterans, including four who served in Confederate Col. John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers, are . . . — — Map (db m59041) HM
Considered to be a main north/south route from Fairfax Court House. Hunter Mill Road served as a key passageway for Union and Confederate traffic during the Civil War. The road was used to travel to and from the great battles of First and Second . . . — — Map (db m35373) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m7433) HM
Second Schoolhouse
The Civil War devastated the Flint Hill community. The farms and land were laid to waste and poverty was rampant. This delayed the building of a new school.
The free public school system was officially established in . . . — — Map (db m184081) HM
This relocated and restored building became known as the Oakton Schoolhouse. This is the third schoolhouse in a series of schools, active from the mid-nineteenth century to 1912, which was originally located on Chain Bridge Road and then moved to . . . — — Map (db m184080) HM
Vale School was built as a one-room public school ca. 1884. A second room was added in 1912. The school closed in 1931 when many small Fairfax County schools were consolidated. In 1934, women of this farming community formed Vale Home Demonstration . . . — — Map (db m38711) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m7431) HM
