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The Louis Berger Group, Inc., on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), conducted an archeological investigation of the Guinea Road Cemetery in preparation for road construction at that site.

Located at the intersection of…

Survey description of Wakefield Chapel, dated February 17, 1971, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

Survey description of Ravensworth mansion, dated February 24, 1972, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

Survey description of Ossian Hall, dated February 25, 1972, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

Survey description of Oak Hill, dated February 13, 1970, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

Survey description of King's Grant, dated July 17, 1974, for the Fairfax County Department of Historic Resources Reconnaissance Level Survey.

Survey description of John Marshall House, dated February 22, 1972, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory

Survey description of Aspen Grove, dated September 1, 1970, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

When road construction threatened the Guinea Road Cemetery in 2004, the Virginia Department of Transportation sought information about those buried there. Dennis Howard of Springfield told the history of his family members, the families of slaves…

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 property in 1889 for $900. She tells of her family and remembers her childhood on the historic property…