Bernice Watt Montgomery lived the first ten years of her life at Oak Hill when it was a 50-acre working farm. Her grandfather had purchased the...

Mary Grace Watt Pulley lived the first seventeen years of her life at Oak Hill when it was a 50-acre working farm. Her grandfather had purchased the...

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

Not all locations are geographically exact....

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

Rosemarie Schelling and her family moved to the Braddock District when her husband was stationed at the Pentagon during the 1960s. Their five children...

James Roland was born in northern Virginia. His parents had moved to the area from Tennessee after World War II because of the better job market. ...

Oak Hill mansion, built in 1790, is the only remaining home of the three manor houses of the Fitzhugh dynasty built on the Ravensworth plantation....

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...

Dennis Howard traces part of the history of African Americans in Fairfax County from the nineteenth century. He recreates the story of his own family...