Tags: development
Item #232: Ravensworth Replacement House
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On August 1, 1926, the Ravensworth Mansion mysteriously burned down, though the adjacent outbuildings survived. Subsequently, Dr. George Bolling Lee...
Item #229: VIDEO (NARRATED): FLYOVER OLD BURKE VILLAGE, 1975
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Old Burke Village resident Lonnie Schorer took her camera aloft in the fall of 1975 to shoot the series of pictures that are the basis for this video....
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 #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 #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 #146: Falls Church District
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The Falls Church District preceded the present-day Braddock District. This promotion publication describes the area in 1960. Annandale District was...
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 #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...