Item #138: Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC): Annandale Campus
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The Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) is part of the multi-campus institution. In 1966, then-Governor Mills Godwin...
Item #136: Terra Centre Elementary School, Burke
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Terra Centre Elementary School was built underground for energy efficiency. The school's roof doubles as an athletic...
Item #135: Oral History: Bill Wrench
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Bill Wrench came to the Braddock District in 1957 as the Director of the Economic and Industrial Development Committee (later, the Economic...
Item #134: Oral History: Helen Winter
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Helen Winter moved to Annandale in 1969. She comments on the positive effects of immigration on the growth of the community and the development of...
Item #133: Oral History: Valerie Vahouny
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Val Vahouny and her family moved to a new home in the original Kings Park development in 1963. Like many families in the 1950s, she and her husband...
Item #132: Oral History: Mayo Stuntz
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Mayo Stuntz is a descendant of the Fitzhugh family who came to the area in the 1600s. Born in 1915, he traces his genealogy, childhood, and county...
Item #131: Oral History: Donna Soderholm
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Donna Soderholm moved to the Braddock District of Fairfax County in 1963. Compared to Chicago, the Virginia suburbs were undeveloped and her...
Item #130: Oral History: Elizabeth Silliman
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Elizabeth Silliman first came to Northern Virginia in 1950, and to the Braddock District of Fairfax County in 1970. She talks about physical changes...
Item #129: Oral History: Margaret Shutler
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Margaret Shutler came to Fairfax County in 1964, the mother of six children and wife of a member of the U.S. Marine Corps ordered to the Pentagon. ...