A Look Back at Braddock District, Fairfax County, Virginia

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Item #227: Animation (narrated): Growth and Development in Braddock District, 1940 to 2004

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Growth and shifts in population and suburban development in Fairfax County are driving forces in the creation and continuing evolution of Braddock...

Item #209: Slide Show: Development in Kings Park

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A series of aerial images from 1937 to 2002 shows how development changed the area of Kings Park near the intersections of Braddock, Rolling and Burke...

Item #184: Memories: Rita Rogers

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Rita Rogers moved with her husband and young sons into the Lake Braddock subdivision in 1971. She remembers the early years of the...

Item #182: Memories: Elizabeth Dove

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Elizabeth Dove remembers Braddock Road in the 1930s, describing the neighborhood, home ownership, and daily...

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 #116: Oral History: Robert Hunt

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Robert Hunt moved to the Kings Park neighborhood in the late 1950s. He became president of the Kings Park Civic Association and later, a member of...

Item #108: Oral History: Clara Greinke

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Clara Greinke, her husband and three sons moved to the Braddock District in 1960. Roads were narrow and often still dirt-covered. She notes how the...

Item #102: Oral History: Elly Doyle

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Elly Doyle moved to Fairfax County during the early 1950s. A civic activist and former member and chairman of the Fairfax County Park Authority Board,...

Item #97: Oral History: Edward Carr

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Edward Carr took over his father's development firm, a major corporation in Northern Virginia. He describes the acquisition, planning, development,...

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