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http://braddockheritage.org/items/browse/tag/ravensworth/page/2?output=atom <![CDATA[braddockheritage.org/]]> 2020-07-01T13:57:57-04:00 Omeka http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/202 <![CDATA[Historic Survey Report: Oak Hill]]>

2011-09-09T18:00:15-04:00

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Historic Survey Report: Oak Hill

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Survey description of Oak Hill, dated February 13, 1970, for the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/177 <![CDATA[Oral History: Rosemarie Schelling]]>

2011-09-15T22:29:20-04:00

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Oral History: Rosemarie Schelling

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Rosemarie Schelling and her family moved to the Braddock District when her husband was stationed at the Pentagon during the 1960s. Their five children joined a neighborhood of large families. Rosemarie Schelling remembers family activities, outdoor sports, rural roads, and holiday celebrations.She traces changes in daily life.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/174 <![CDATA[Oak Hill: Interior Views]]>

2011-09-10T22:31:07-04:00

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Oak Hill: Interior Views

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Oak Hill mansion, built in 1790, is the only remaining home of the three manor houses of the Fitzhugh dynasty built on the Ravensworth plantation. Richard Fitzhugh, great grandson of the original Ravensworth owner, built Oak Hill in the late Georgian style. The mansion was remodeled in the Colonial Revival Style in the 1930s. A replica Federal period mantle, decorative carved medallions, and a marble hearth are among the Revival features. Outside, original boxwoods line the driveway.

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Photos by Gil Donahue

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Copyrighted material, not to be reproduced without permission of owner, Gilbert Donahue

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/173 <![CDATA[Map: Eighteenth Century Land Ownership]]>

2011-10-05T16:48:01-04:00

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Map: Eighteenth Century Land Ownership

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This map of local land ownership in the eighteenth century in the Braddock District area shows the original buyer's name for each land patent or grant. Ravensworth was the single largest land grant in Northern Virginia. William Fitzhugh, son of an English middle-class woolen draper purchased the roughly 22,000 acres in 1685. Although he lived in nearby King George County, he turned Ravensworth into one of the largest tobacco plantations in Northern Virginia, importing slaves and hiring overseers to work the property. Six generations of his family farmed there.

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Map by George Mason University's Department of Geography GIS Center of Excellence, based on the companion map to Beginning at a White Oak...Patents and Northern Neck Grants of Fairfax County, Virginia by Beth Mitchell, circa 1977.

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]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/172 <![CDATA[Oral History: Dennis Howard]]>

2011-09-15T22:24:32-04:00

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Oral History: Dennis Howard

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Dennis Howard traces part of the history of African Americans in Fairfax County from the nineteenth century. He recreates the story of his own family from slavery to the present day. His ancestor, Horace Gibson, and fellow former slave Moses Parker established a blacksmith shop and purchased land near the intersection of Little River Turnpike and Prosperity Avenue after the Civil War. The partners eventually expanded their holdings to 400 acres, and the area later became known as Ilda.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/135 <![CDATA[Oral History: Bill Wrench]]>

2011-09-13T22:54:04-04:00

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Oral History: Bill Wrench

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Bill Wrench came to the Braddock District in 1957 as the Director of the Economic and Industrial Development Committee (later, the Economic Development Authority). Lack of development in the county surprised him then, but his job was to integrate industrial development with residential growth. In 1960, he left the government and opened his own business, an oil distributorship and then a gas station. His family became part of the new Ravensworth Farm subdivision. Bill Wrench looks at roads, gas station management, and what brings people to live in the area.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/131 <![CDATA[Oral History: Donna Soderholm]]>

2011-09-13T23:05:06-04:00

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Oral History: Donna Soderholm

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Donna Soderholm moved to the Braddock District of Fairfax County in 1963. Compared to Chicago, the Virginia suburbs were undeveloped and her husband's commute to downtown DC took only a half hour. Most families in her neighborhood had four or more children who spent most of their free time outdoors playing together. She compares earlier days with the present time.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/128 <![CDATA[Oral History, Part 1: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson(1921 - 2008)]]>

2011-08-04T14:14:21-04:00

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Oral History, Part 1: Delbert (Bill) Sheads and Elsie Sisson(1921 - 2008)

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In Part 1 of two interview sessions, Bill and Elsie (Sheads) Sisson, brother and sister, reminisce about their family, which came to the Braddock District from Culpepper, Virginia, in 1903. They talk about people and places, schools, lumbering and saw mills, and church life.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/122 <![CDATA[Oral History: Ruth Miller]]>

2011-09-13T23:11:40-04:00

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Oral History: Ruth Miller

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Ruth Miller moved to the Braddock District from Flint, Michigan in 1961. A single mother of three, she taught elementary school. Ruth Miller discusses artifacts of earlier years and the changing geography of the community.

]]> http://braddockheritage.org/items/show/112 <![CDATA[Oral History: Bill Hellwig]]>

2011-09-13T23:22:11-04:00

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Oral History: Bill Hellwig

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Bill Hellwig's family moved to Fairfax County in 1952. His father, a civil engineer, conducted studies for developers on the feasibility of land tracts for development, including the preliminary engineering work for most of Springfield. Bill Hellwig joined the Park Authority after college graduation and by 2005 had worked for the Authority for 33 years. He discusses the development of the parks and their programs.

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