Burke United Methodist Church

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 congregation moved to a new location in 1979, and the former depot and church became a commercial building.

General J.E.B. Stuart had raided the old train station in 1862, and a historic marker denotes the event.

Photograph from Fairfax County Public Library, Virginia Room, Photographic Archive

Silas Burke House

Silas Burke, a businessman and landowner, built the Silas Burke House circa 1824. His wife lived there for 41 years after his death in 1854. The property includes an ice house, root cellar, and a restored slave house. The Burke mansion is on Burke Lake Road, Burke, Virginia.

In 1891, John Marshall, who owned the general store in Burke, purchased the home. The Copperthite family followed, builders of a racetrack and hotel in Burke. In 1925, the Simpson family purchased the property and renamed the house "Top o' the Hill, and it is owned by their descendants, the Fowlers, today.

Photo by Gilbert Donahue

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