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.

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Brimstone Hill

Brimstone Hill dates to circa 1820. In 1839, Charles Arundel purchased the twelve-acre property and acquired a license to operate a tavern. In 1848, the tavern became a polling place for elections. In 1850, Arundel enlarged the building to include an inn and a store, which thrived until the latter part of the nineteenth century. During the Civil War, Confederate raider, John Arundel, was killed on his family property and buried there. The building stands at Burke Lake Road and Route 123 in Fairfax Station, Virginia.

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Boxhill Farm

Born in Switzerland, Frederick Segessenman emigrated to the United States and later built Boxhill Farm in 1896 on eight acres in Annandale. He was a landscaper and a florist and it is believed he planted the boxwood from which the home derives its name. Boxhill Farm stands north of Braddock Road near present-day Wakefield Chapel Road in Annandale.

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