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St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church in Fairfax Station was built in 1860 and became the first Catholic Church in Fairfax County.

During the construction of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad through Fairfax County, many Irish Catholic…

Nicholas Fitzhugh, a nephew of William of Chatham, built Ossian Hall in 1780, one of three large homes erected on Ravensworth plantation. Dr. David Stuart purchased Ossian Hall and 831 acres of land in 1804. Dr. Stuart's wife, Eleanor Calvert…

The Marshall Family Cemetery is located in Colonel Silas Burke Park near the intersection of Old Burke Lake Road and Burke Road in Burke, Virginia. The home of John A. and Mary Marshall, which had stood nearby, was relocated and later burned in the…

In 1891, the Little Zion Baptist Church was built for $25 by freed slaves on land donated by Jack Pearson, a former slave of the Fitzhugh family.

The founding congregation was known as the Old School Baptist Group of Blacks and Whites. Reverend…

The Jerusalem Baptist congregation of Fairfax Station formed on May 17, 1840. Charter members worshiped every third Sunday at the Upper Church (Payne's Church), an original colonial Anglican church, which was located south of the courthouse on Ox…

The Hirst House, built in 1962 off Rolling Road, incorporates silos from the family farm in its construction. The architect split the silos lengthwise to create barrel walls of the house roof and ceiling.

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…

Old Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) stood on the corner of Braddock Road and Twinbrook Road near Burke, Virginia. John Marshall and his wife donated land for the church. The congregation met in Ashford School before the building became…

Photographer Matthew Brady captured the devastation of the Civil War in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, nursed the wounded there after the Second Battle of Manassas and the Battle of Chantilly, 1862.

The Burke United Methodist Church opened in a former Southern Railway train station in 1929. Former school teacher and neighborhood handyman, Willie Harlow, made the steeple and the cross, although he did not attend church services there. The…