Tags: agriculture
Item #225: Oliver Farm, Annandale, Virginia
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On Christmas Eve 1931, Robert Stringfellow Oliver, his wife Charlene Byrd Oliver, seven children and 24 cattle moved from Shirlington to this farm...
Item #216: Oral History, Part 2: Lee Hubbard
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Part 2 of two parts. Lee Hubbard's family can trace its roots in Fairfax County to the 1700s. He discusses his childhood and milestone events. Lee...
Item #215: Oral History, Part 2: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson (1921 - 2008)
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In Part 2 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock...
Item #183: Memories: Joanne Mellender Hollis
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Joanne Mellender Hollis first moved to Fairfax as a child in 1932. She remembers activities of her childhood and life during World War II, when...
Item #181: Oak Hill Memories: Bernice Watt Montgomery
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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...
Item #180: Oak Hill Memories: Mary Grace Watt Pulley
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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...
Item #176: Oral History: James Roland
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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. ...
Item #128: Oral History, Part 1: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson(1921 - 2008)
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In Part 1 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock...
Item #117: Oral History: Paul Kincheloe
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Paul Kincheloe grew up on a dairy farm on Burke Road his father bought in the early 1940s. The farm was sold and developed into the Lake Braddock...