Browse Resources (8 total)
Oral History, Part 2: Lee Hubbard
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 Hubbard became a member of the police department and he talks about criminal cases, traffic, and the…
Tags: agriculture, civil war, commerce, education, fire department, occupations, police, railroad, traffic, world war ii
Oral History, Part 2: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson (1921 - 2008)
In Part 2 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock District from Culpepper, Virginia, in 1903. They talk about people and places, schools, lumbering and…
Oral History, Part 1: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson(1921 - 2008)
In Part 1 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock District from Culpepper, Virginia, in 1903. They talk about people and places, schools, lumbering and…
Oral History: Suzanne (Suzi) Fowler Neal
Suzanne Fowler Neal's family moved to Northern Virginia in the early 1900s. In 1925, they moved into Silas Burke House, which they called Top o' the Hill. Suzi Fowler talks about growing up with a large family living in a historic home, the physical…
Oral History: Robert Mizer
While in the U. S. Navy in 1979, Robert Mizer was stationed at the Pentagon. He moved his family into the Ravensworth area of the Braddock District and remained. A volunteer fire fighter, he talks about the history of the Burke Volunteer Fire…
Tags: burke, civic activism, development, fire department
Oral History, Part 1: Lee Hubbard
Part 1 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 Hubbard became a member of the police department and he talks about criminal cases, traffic, and the…
Tags: agriculture, civil war, commerce, education, fire department, occupations, police, railroad, traffic, world war ii
Oral History: John Fox
John Fox was seventeen when his family moved to Annandale in 1939. His father started the Annandale Volunteer Fire Department, and John Fox served with that department. He describes the technology of fire fighting and major blazes facing the…
Tags: agriculture, annandale, commerce, crises, development, fire department, recreation, sports
Oral History: Stewart Lynn and Becky Bryce
The Bryce family represents four generations of Fairfax County residents. They discuss daily life growing up in the country from the time of dirt roads to present-day development.
Tags: agriculture, burke, childhood, crises, development, education, fire department, occupations, traffic