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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…

Delbert [Bill] Sheads was drafted when he was 19 years old and inducted into the U.S. Army in January 1943. and was assigned to the 113th Armored Cavalry Reconnaissance Regiment. He and his girlfriend, Doris Hollis, attended Fairfax High School…

Women on the homefront in Fairfax during World War II coped with shortages of wartime. Through monthly meetings at Home Demonstration Clubs, they worked together to plant victory gardens and to learn how to use and preserve food and clothing.

During World War II, elementary school children in the Braddock District joined in home front support of the war. Children would buy stamps, put them in books, and trade in each completed book for a war bond to help the war effort.

Drafted at the age of 19, Delbert [Bill] Sheeds was shipped to Europe, landing in France after D-Day in June 1944, and moving through France, Belgium and into Germany within 20 miles of Berlin.

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…