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Oliver Farm, Annandale, Virginia
On Christmas Eve 1931, Robert Stringfellow Oliver, his wife Charlene Byrd Oliver, seven children and 24 cattle moved from Shirlington to this farm house in Annandale, which stands on Gallows Road near Columbia Pike. The cattle drive and move were so…
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Farm, Fairfax County, circa 1910
Fairfax County farmer harvesting a wheat field, circa 1910.
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Dairy Farm, Fairfax County, circa 1940
The image of cows grazing in a Fairfax County field was a familiar site in the mid-twentieth century in Braddock District. In 1936, dairy farming was the county's largest industry with 100 dairy farms and 440 families engaged in farming.
Tags: agriculture, occupations
Barn, circa 1930
This barn was located on the Silas Burke House property.
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Greenfield
Judge Abner Ritchie built Greenfield in 1885 and named it for the green fields on the property. Judge Ritchie was a gentleman farmer; however, when the Kincheloe family bought Greenfield in 1943, it became a dairy farm. During World War II, the…
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