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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…

Mary Grace Watt Pulley lived the first seventeen 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…

The Falls Church District preceded the present-day Braddock District. This promotion publication describes the area in 1960. Annandale District was renamed Braddock District in 1992.

A Thursday, November 19, 1964, newspaper article in the Springfield Independent reports on the opening of Kings Park Elementary School, the 121st school to open in Fairfax County.

A newspaper headline in 1951 announced that Burke farmer, Jones Jasper, asked the District Court for a preliminary injunction against any airport within 12,500 feet of his 100-acre farm. The suit charged that "frequent operation of large, heavy,…

Ravensworth Farm was among the first subdivisions to develop during the boom of the early 1960s.

Kings Park was part of the growth of suburban communities in the Braddock District during the 1960s. Most residents were families with a stay-at-home mother, and community activities for children and adults developed including Friday night movies…

A 1951 letter from Paul C. Kincheloe, Chairman of the Northern Virginia Committee Opposed to a Supplemental Airport at Burke, Virginia. This letter to Kincheloe's unnamed senator argued against support for the airport.

In 1959, the federal government advertised the sale at auction of land originally purchased and consolidated to construct an international airport at Burke. When an alternate site in Chantilly was chosen, almost 900 acres of land formerly designated…

The 2005 pen and ink sketch of local artist, Chris Lipsey illustrated probable effects of the Burke International Airport, had the proposal succeeded.