A Look Back at Braddock District, Fairfax County, Virginia

Item #233: Map: Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington

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Published in 1878-1879 by G. M. Hopkins, this atlas mapped communities within a 15-mile radius of Washington, D.C. Separate editions were issued for...

Item #223: Map: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Road

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This 1939 map shows the location of the road built by the CCC in the 1930s to provide access to what was then an extensive forest, likely for fire...

Item #196: Map: Braddock District Area

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The historical material in this website refers to events and places located in or near the geographic area now or previously included in the Braddock...

Item #187: Map: Braddock District in the Civil War

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During the Civil War, the area now considered the Braddock District lay between northern and southern strongholds intersected by critical railroad...

Item #179: Map: Braddock's Historic Sites

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This maps notes historic sites in the Braddock area from the eighteenth century to the present time.

Not all locations are geographically exact....

Item #178: Map: Area Transportation Networks--Roads and Railroads

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Braddock District is served by a mixture of modern and original transportation networks that date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The document...

Item #173: Map: Eighteenth Century Land Ownership

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This map of local land ownership in the eighteenth century in the Braddock District area shows the original buyer's name for each land patent or...

Item #78: Map: Proposed Burke International Airport

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The map shows the proposed location of the Burke International Airport, on a 4,500-acre tract near Burke. According to The Evening Star, June 14,...

Item #61: Map: Fairfax County Tornado, 1973

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A newspaper clipping shows the path of the tornado that occurred in Fairfax County on April 1, 1973, April Fools...

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