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diff --git a/30054-0.txt b/30054-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c518356 --- /dev/null +++ b/30054-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3872 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30054 *** + + A Virginia + VILLAGE + + Reprinted by the Centennial Committee of the + Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society + + April 1985. + + [Illustration] + + "_Celebrating + Our + Centennial Year_" + + 1885-1985 + + + _President_ + Sue Bachtel + + _Vice President_ + Rowland Bowers + + _Treasurer_ + Delores Cannon + + _Recording Secretary_ + June Douglas + + _Corresponding Secretary_ + Vivian Norfleet + + _Immediate Past President_ + Col. Merl M. Moore + + _Elected Directors_ + Louis & Sue Olom + Mary Bowers + Charles A. Hobbie + Howard & Betty Hughes Melton + Robert & Susan Wayland + B.J. & Judith Segel + Harry Cannon + Florence Murphy + Dick & Betty Allan + Jerry Blystone + Kenneth & Melena Huffman + Harold & Ida Silverstein + Raymond & Marie Stewart + Martha Vinograd + James M. Boren + + _Honorary Life Members_ + Ruby and Mel Bolster + Leath B. Bracken + Mrs. Edgar D. Brooke + Mrs. Meres G. Brown + Major General and + Mrs. William Carter + Elizabeth Graham (Mrs. John A.) + Miss Helen MacGregor + Mrs. Charles G. Manly + Mrs. Paul Schlager + Louise Shepard (Mrs. Ernest) + Mrs. Calvin W. Smith + Lorraine Williams (Mrs. Fonda) + Pat Wollenberg (Mrs. Roger) + + + Falls Church + Village Preservation + & Improvement Society + + + + +Dear Friends, + +The Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS) is +pleased to be able to reprint _A Virginia Village_ by Charles A. Stewart +as part of its Centennial observance in 1985. We are especially grateful +to the Mary Riley Styles Public Library of Falls Church for permission +to use their copy of _A Virginia Village_ for the reproduction. + +_A Virginia Village_ provides a snapshot of Falls Church at the turn of +the century, at a time when the predecessor of VPIS, the Village +Improvement Society (VIS) (pp. 16-18), was in full swing. Thus it is a +fitting backdrop to our year of special activities. + +As you will note, many of the buildings and settings in the 1904 edition +have been lost or altered in the past 80 years. To make the book more +useful and enjoyable to current readers, we have added a Foreword, +Comments on the Structures Pictured, a Name and Street Index, and a +biographical sketch and photograph of the author. The new information is +not all inclusive and we invite you to cross-reference your reading with +the other sources listed in the Foreword. + +The Society is indebted to several of its members who worked long and +hard to made this edition possible. In particular, we would like to +thank the chairman of the project, Colonel Merl M. Moore (a former VPIS +President); Mr. Edmund F. Becker, who wrote the Foreword; Mr. Henry H. +Douglas, who as usual is an indispensable resource on the history of +Falls Church; and Mr. Richard T. Allan, whose editing skills were +invaluable. + +We hope this 1985 edition will become a cherished reminder of The +Society's 100th anniversary and a valuable edition to your personal +library. Sincerely, + + _President_ + + Rowland Bowers + _Vice President_ + + Harold Silverstein + _Chairman, Centennial Committee_ + +[Illustration] + + + + +ABOUT THE FALLS CHURCH VILLAGE PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY + + +In 1985, its Centennial Year, the Falls Church Village Preservation and +Improvement Society comprises over 750 citizens and businesses dedicated +to improving the quality of life in Falls Church. + +The Society recognizes that it is the inheritor of the civic purposes +and activities of the Village Improvement Society (VIS) of Falls Church +established in 1885 and which group was modeled after the famous Laurel +Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and that VPIS' purposes, +objectives and activities represent a continuum of the earlier organized +and volunteer civic organization and effort to improve and preserve the +historic tradition, residential character, quality of life and +appearance of Falls Church, Virginia. + +The values articulated by the founders in 1885 have not changed to the +present: + + to preserve the historic and predominantly single + family detached residential and village character of Falls Church; + + to preserve its historic structures and landmarks; + + to promote architectural harmony and aesthetic values; + + to beautify the community by planting trees, flowers, + and shrubs; and + + to work with governmental bodies and community groups + to promote and fulfill these goals. + +Archives of the Society may be found in the Virginia Room of the Mary +Riley Styles Library, Falls Church, Virginia. + + + + +FOREWORD + + +Charles A. Stewart's _A Virginia Village_ is a charming depiction of the +early days of Falls Church. It is the earliest attempt to put on paper +the story of the Falls Church area. In addition to interesting stories +about people and organizations and life generally in the small town of +80 years ago, the book contains photographs of 107 Falls Church houses, +stores, and churches then standing. Reading it is a trip into nostalgia +for old-timers--but the book is more than nostalgia. It pictures many +elements which we associate with the community's lovely historic +character and interest, and which intrigues newcomers and older +residents alike. + +Charles A. Stewart produced the book with the help of friends, including +M.M. Ogden, who wrote the preface, and Pickering Dodge, who took the +photographs. Joseph H. Newell printed it in a small backyard shop owned +by his father, which was located on what is today North Washington +Street next to the Columbia Baptist Church. + +Not all of the structures standing in the town of Falls Church in 1904 +are pictured in _A Virginia Village_. Some owners perhaps were not +asked, or they did not wish to pay the two-dollar fee, or they declined +for other reasons. A number of these absent structures were well-known +features of the community, including the two W.&O.D. railway stations +(East and West Falls Church, now gone), Mt. Hope, Shadow Lawn (or +Whitehall), Tallwood, Jefferson School (no longer standing) and the old +I.O.O.F. Hall (also gone). _Falls Church--By Fence and Fireside_, +published in 1964 by the Rev. Melvin Steadman, mentions many others, +such as Big Chimneys, which was still standing in 1904. + +Of the 107 structures pictured, 24 were located near the present City, +particularly in what was then known as the "East End" or East Falls +Church. This former part of the town of Falls Church was returned to +Alexandria County (now Arlington) in 1936. A large number of homes, +stores, and other business establishments which constituted East Falls +Church disappeared with the building of I-66, especially that part of +the highway that lies between Westmoreland and Sycamore Streets in +Arlington County. East Falls Church extended from the present +City/County line down Lee Highway, and thus was located on both the +north and south sides of I-66. + +A review of the available records and the recollections of older +residents indicates that 57 of the buildings shown are no longer +standing; of the some 50 not pictured, 14 are no longer standing. Thus, +of at least 157 buildings known to have been standing in town in 1904, +71 are known to have been lost (almost half). + +The sources consulted (other than the book itself) include extensive +notes made about 1970 by Mrs. John C. (Frances Butterworth) Cline, who +died in 1979; _Falls Church--Places and People_, by Henry H. Douglas, +published by the Falls Church Historical Commission in 1981 (still +available in paperback); Rev. Melvin Steadman's _Falls Church--By Fence +and Fireside_, published in 1964 (out of print); Henry H. Douglas' +_Falls Church Historical News and Notes_, published between May 1970 and +October 1972; Henry H. Douglas himself, who has made a hobby of Falls +Church history; Mel and Ruby Bolster, charter members of VPIS; and many +others. + +While the City has lost much of its rural village character and charm, +and has meanwhile acquired some ugly modernity in spots, the City's +preservation ordinance, adopted in 1984, throws a protective cloak +against further demolition around structures built as residences prior +to 1911. Other buildings, such as churches and historic sites, are also +protected by the ordinance, subject to certification by the Historical +Commission to a Register. In addition, the Falls Church Village +Preservation and Improvement Society and others continually seek ways to +restore what aesthetic features have been lost. + +Much additional information about houses, people and events in and +around Falls Church will be found in the publications mentioned above +and in other publications and documents making up the Falls Church Local +Historical Collection in the Virginia Room of the Mary Riley Styles +Public Library. The Collection is a veritable treasure-house of +historical information waiting to be explored, and anyone looking for +more information concerning any of the persons or places mentioned in +this book is urged to consult the Collection in the Virginia Room. + + Edmund F. Becker, + 517 Meridian St., + Falls Church, Va. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHARLES ALEXANDER STEWART + +Charles Alexander Stewart (1860-1950), who is best remembered in Falls +Church for his estimable little book, _A Virginia Village_, which was +published in 1904, was born at "Beechwood," the Stewart family farm at +the intersection of the Dismal Swamp and Northwest Canals. He was the +fourth in a family of five. His father, William Charles Stewart +(1810-1865), died at "Beechwood." + +In 1887 Charles A. Stewart married Mary Isabella Tabb (1866-1939), +daughter of Dr. Robert Bruce Tabb (1833-1906) and Elizabeth Anne +(Warden) Tabb (1837-1891). Elizabeth Tabb Stewart, born in 1890, was the +eldest of ten children and lived in the family home in East Falls Church +from 1894 until 1971. + +Mr. Stewart had a distinguished career in the United States Treasury +Department where he became chief clerk in the Office of the Comptroller +of the Currency, and was a bank examiner when he retired in 1930. He was +active in many community affairs. He was a vestryman of The Falls +Church, was chairman of the Falls Church School Board continuously from +1910 to 1927, was active in the creation of Madison School and, while he +was still living, the Charles A. Stewart Elementary School, on Underwood +Street, was named for him. He was a trustee of Oakwood Cemetery in 1918, +and was assistant secretary of the Arlington/Fairfax Savings and Loan +from 1933 to 1940. + +(From _Falls Church Historical News & Notes_, October 1972.) + + + + +COMMENTS ON THE STRUCTURES PICTURED + +These comments provide information on the present status of the 107 +structures pictured. They are arranged in sequence by item numbers, +which correspond to the page numbers in the original book, and repeat +the names exactly as given. The people named were the owners of the +structures pictured. Present street addresses are given when the +building is still standing. In the case of the 57 buildings now gone +(they are marked by asterisks), the former or present street address is +usually not known, and in such instances the approximate location is +given. When the date of destruction is known, it is given; when a +destruction date is not given, it presumably was some time prior to +1969, when the City's Architectural Inventory was prepared. Construction +dates and other interesting details are provided when known, in capsule +form. + +[Sidenote: Front] _The Lawton House._ 203 Lawton St. Also known as +Lawton Manor and Home Hill. Built in 1859 but renovated many times. Once +headquarters of Confederate Gen. James Longstreet and later the home of +Gen. Henry Ware Lawton. Formerly housed Mattie Gundry's "Gun-Well" +school. Yard formerly used by Louise and Ernest Shepard to hold the +first VPIS Attic Treasures sales. Threat to house stimulated formation +of VPIS in 1965. Owners: Donald Rice and Elizabeth Loker. + +[Sidenote: Front] _Mr. A.M. Lothrop._ Still standing at McKinley St. and +Wilson Blvd. in Arlington. Beautiful estate known as "Fair Mount." +Owner: Randolph Rouse. + +[Sidenote: *4] _Mr. E.T. Fenwick._ Was on Washington Blvd., East Falls +Church, at the end of 24th Street. + +[Sidenote: 5] _Presbyterian Church._ 225 E. Broad St. Built in 1884 with +stone from the Tripps/Sisler quarry on S. Washington St., but the stone +trim was transported from Seneca Maryland via the C.&O. Canal. Additions +were built in 1968 from stone salvaged from the demolished old Columbia +Baptist Church, thanks to architect and member, Kenton D. Hamaker, who +died in 1982. + +[Sidenote: *6] _Mr. W.M. Ellison._ Is the house built in 1852 by Wm. +Henry Ellison and later left to his son, Wm. McElfresh Ellison, who in +turn left it to his daughter, Fannie May, who married Carroll Shreve. +Once housed the Falls Church library. Was torn down in 1955 to make way +for the present Sunoco Gas Station on W. Broad and West St. (934 W. +Broad). Ellison owned at least four structures in the area, and Ellison +Street no doubt is named for him. + +[Sidenote: 7] _Mr. George G. Crossman._ Built 1892. Located on part of +the former large Isaac Crossman farm near Lee Highway and Little Falls +St. at 2501 Underwood St. in Arlington. Plaque on house describes it as +the Crossman-Grey House. Home of Stephen B. Grey. + +[Sidenote: *8] _Virginia Training School, Miss M. Gundry, Principal._ +Was at 309 W. Broad St., immediately west of the present Post Office. On +the present site of the Winter Hill subdivision, formerly Tyler Gardens. +Formerly the Schuyler Duryee House. Its large metal outside conduits, +providing quick fire escapes for the mentally-handicapped inmates, +attracted the attention of curious passersby. + +[Sidenote: *9] _Dr. J.B. Gould._ 120 E. Broad St. + +[Sidenote: 10] _Mr. W.H. Nowlan._ 114 E. Columbia St. near the Crossman +Methodist Church. Built 1885. Now owned by the City, which converted it +for handicapped adults in 1981. + +[Sidenote: 11] Mr. G.W. Poole. On N. Washington Blvd. in Arlington +County just behind what is now the First Virginia Bank, 6745 Lee +Highway. + +[Sidenote: *12] _Mr. G.F. McInturff._ Was on N. Maple Ave. on the +present site of Garden Court Townhouses, adjacent to the George +Stambaugh house, which was located on Great Falls St. (See item 61.) + +[Sidenote: *13] _Mr. M.E. Church._ Had a real estate and insurance +office and drug store on W. Broad St. facing the present Brown's +Hardware at 100 W. Broad St. Note windmill. On site of the George Mason +Square complex, now under construction. (See p. 89 for more details +about Mr. Church.) + +[Sidenote: *14] _Mr. J.W. Brown Store and Residence._ Old store and +residence gone, torn down in 1959. Was on the N. corner of N. Washington +and W. Broad Sts., next door to the "new" Brown's store. Business +recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. + +[Sidenote: 15] _Mr. Geo. L. Erwin._ 300 W. Great Falls St., on corner of +Little Falls and Great Falls Sts. A good example of what Falls Church +was like at the turn of the century. Owners: Polly and Adrian Richey. +Built 1893. + +[Sidenote: 16] _Mrs. Emma Garner._ 211 E. Columbia St. Built 1894. Home +of David M. Garner, son of J.W. Garner. (See item 46.) + +[Sidenote: *17] _Mr. E.C. Hough._ Was on E. Jefferson St. next to 215 E. +Jefferson on the left. E.C. Hough built this house in 1900. Parcel owned +by L.F. Jennings. + +[Sidenote: *18] _Major M.S. Hopkins. Arringdon Hall_, as this impressive +house was known, was on N. Washington St. next door to the Village House +Motel, razed in 1984 to make way for the Kaiser-Permanente Medical +Center, now under constructions on N. Washington between Park and W. +Great Falls St. _Arringdon Hall_ was demolished in the mid-60s. + +[Sidenote: *19] _Mr. S.H. Thornburg._ Was next door to the right of +present Nowlan/Pendleton House at 114 E. Columbia St. on the present +site of the Crossman Methodist Church parking lot (See item 10). + +[Sidenote: *20] _Mr. Nathan Banks._ Was on the site of a present +condominium apartment house on the North side of the 6800 block of +Washington Blvd. in East Falls Church, Arlington. + +[Sidenote: *21] _James A. Dickinson, M.D._ Was at 351 N. Washington St. +Demolished in 1963 to make way for the Columbia Baptist Church parking +lot. The owners were Mr. and Mrs. John H. (Frances Butterworth) Cline. +Their daughter, Elizabeth Hughes Cline (Mrs. Howard Melton) and her +husband are currently members of the VPIS Board. + +[Sidenote: 22] _Dr. Geo. B. Fadeley._ 260 W. Broad St., corner of Little +Falls St. opposite the Post Office. Was his office and residence, later +the Falls Church Beauty School, and now the Potomac Academy of Hair +Design. Built 1890. + +[Sidenote: *23] _Mankin Pharmacy._ Demolished and replaced by +tool-rental and restaurant businesses. Was on N. Washington St. to the +right of the present State Theatre at 220 N. Washington. It was a small, +real drug store, handling mostly drugs and pharmaceuticals, but may have +had a "soda fountain." + +[Sidenote: 24] _Mr. Charles Crossman._ House saved from demolition in +May 1983 and moved from 421 N. Washington St., near the Columbia Baptist +Church, to 345 Little Falls St. Moved by Col. Lawrence Pence and his +wife Carol of Arlington, who are also renovating _Shadow Lawn_, +(formerly Whitehall) at 335 Little Falls St. Built 1871. Crossman House +was once affectionately known as _Aunt Pansy's_. Owners: Mr. and Mrs. +Richard Morde. + +[Sidenote: *25] _Dr. J. B. Hodgkin._ Was on E. Fairfax St. on the site +of the present Southgate Shopping Center facing The Falls Church +(Episcopal). + +[Sidenote: *26] _Mr. D.O. Munson._ Dr. Munson's house was probably part +of the Munson Nurseries near Munson Hill, just off Leesburg Pike (Route +7) toward Baileys Crossroads. He was also a Colonel, and planted the +silver maples that lined and overarched Broad St. House was demolished +to make way for the Lafayette Condominiums, at 6141 Leesburg Pike. + +[Sidenote: 27] _Mr. Henry Crocker._ 319 N. Maple, near Thurber Ct. Built +1890. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vogel. Thurber Court is named after +James Thurber, who once lived nearby. + +[Sidenote: *27] _Mr. E.F. Crocker._ Was at 321 N. Maple. Demolished when +Thurber Court was built. + +[Sidenote: *28] _Mr. G.W. Mankin._ Was third building west of the +original Brown's Hardware at 100 West Broad Street. Was the home of Mr. +George W. Mankin after he moved out of the Clover House (not pictured in +this book; referenced in Falls Church: Places and People, pp. 76, 77). +Was approximately on the site of the present D&F Office Furniture at 134 +West Broad. + +[Sidenote: *29] _Mr. C.H. Buxton._ Was home of Charles Buxton, which was +at E. Broad St. and Buxton Rd., but now replaced by a newer home next +door to the Dulin United Methodist Church at 513 E. Broad St. + +[Sidenote: *30] _Mr. Summerfield Taylor._ Lived over the Falls Church +Market, a grocery formerly at the south-east corner of E. Broad and S. +Washington Sts. Later replaced by the Falls Church Garage and Kent +Cleaners. The "Historic Triangle complex," created by the City, is being +replaced by the Independence Square Complex, now under construction. + +[Sidenote: 31] _Mr. A.P. Eastman._ House still standing in East Falls +Church at 6733 Lee Highway. He was a charter member and treasurer of the +Village Improvement Society. Owner: Mrs. Charles R. Fenwick (Eleanor +Eastman). House known as _Everbloom_. + +[Sidenote: 32] _Mr. Geo. F. Rollins._ 109 E. Columbia St. Large house +built in 1888. Also known as the Vosbury/Hall house. Owners: Dr. and +Mrs. George Hall. + +[Sidenote: 33] _The Old Colonial Church._ Interesting name for The Falls +Church (Episcopal) at 115 E. Fairfax St. Has undergone considerable +enlargement and renovation. Present brick church built in 1769 and thus +the oldest church in the area. The City took its name from the church. +On the National Register of Historic Places. + +[Sidenote: *34] _Mrs. C.E. Mankin's Store._ Mr. Mankin's store was on +the corner of N. Washington and E. Broad Sts. and was known as Mankin's +Notion and Dry Goods Store. Mankin's wife Valinda ran the store in 1904 +after he died the previous September. He served in the Confederate Army +and saw Stonewall Jackson shot by his own troops. Now Robertson's office +building. + +[Sidenote: 35] _Mr. Charles A. Stewart._ House at 6857 Washington Blvd. +in East Falls Church, Arlington. Author of _A Virginia Village_ and +other published and unpublished works. His daughter Elizabeth Tabb +Stewart lived there until 1971. Name of new owners is unknown, but it is +scheduled for demolition soon. + +[Sidenote: *36] _Mrs. Charles A. (sic) Mankin._ Believed to be a picture +of _Home Hill_ which Charles _E._ Mankin built for his wife Valinda. It +was located across the street from the then I.O.O.F. Hall on the site of +the Post Office parking lot at 301 W. Broad St. The grounds were given +to Mrs. Mankin by her mother. (There was no Charles _A._ Mankin.) + +[Sidenote: 37] _Mrs. Annie Eells._ 414 W. Great Falls St. Built 1885. +Known as the Eells/Roberts/Pierce Home. Enlarged and renovated. Owners: +Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Pierce. + +[Sidenote: 38] _"Eastover," Mr. Pickering Dodge._ 6763 25th St., corner +of Washington Blvd. and 25th St., East Falls Church. Mr. Dodge took the +pictures for _A Virginia Village_. Later owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hughes +Butterworth (daughter was Frances) from 1917-1933. Present owners: +Michael and Rita Flott. + +[Sidenote: 39] _Mr. W.A. Ball._ 117 E. Columbia St. next to Rollins/Hall +house at 109 E. Columbia. Probably refers to Rev. Samuel A. Ball, who +was pastor of the Crossman Methodist Church across the street. Known as +the Ball/Jackman house. Built 1890. Owners: Mr. and Mrs. George E. +Jackman. + +[Sidenote: *40] _Mr. T.B. Snoddy._ Was next to the N.E. corner of N. +Washington and E. Columbia Sts. Now occupied by an office building at +400 N. Washington St. + +[Sidenote: *41] _Dr. T.M. Talbott._ Was located on a piece of farmland +across from the A.M. Lothrop place at the corner of McKinley Rd. and +Wilson Blvd. in Arlington. Christian Science Church, 809 N. McKinley +Road, now on the site. + +[Sidenote: *42] _Mr. C.L. Blanton._ Mrs. Cline stated that this house +was then (about 1970) on Washington Blvd. in East Falls Church. Location +unclear. (See poultry ad on p. 108). + +[Sidenote: *43] _Mr. Geo. W. Hawxhurst._ Was on the N.E. corner of N. +Washington and E. Columbia Sts., opposite the Charles Crossman House and +next door to Snoddy's. The garage once housed the beginnings of the +Falls Church library. + +[Sidenote: *44] _Mr. W.W. Biggs._ Was on the corner of W. Great Falls +and Little Falls St., facing Little Falls St. on the site of the Falls +Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls. Later owned by the Cobb and +O'Halloran families. + +[Sidenote: 45] _Mr. C.C. Walters._ 900 Park Ave. at Spring St. Built +1891. Owned by Philip Brophy. + +[Sidenote: 46] _Mr. J.W. Garner._ 219 E. Columbia St. Built 1890. Owned +by Larry Lee Gregg and Cynthia Garner. + +[Sidenote: *47] _Town Sergeant John N. Gibson._ East Falls Church. Was +located on the south side of Washington Blvd., east of Lee Highway, +between Moncure (p. 91) and Thompson (p. 97). Gibson, as town officer, +had many duties. House demolished when I-66 was built. + +[Sidenote: *48] _Mr. J.C. Elliott's Store._ East Falls Church. Was at +Lee Highway and N. Fairfax Drive, with the electric trolley running on +Fairfax Drive. The W.&O.D. R.R. was on the south side. Was Snyder's +Hardware when it burned in 1948. It was replaced by the new Snyder & Co. +store, 6847 Lee Highway, Arlington. + +[Sidenote: 49] _Miss Ada Rhodes._ 110 W. Great Falls St. Now known as +the Rhodes/Lennon House. Built in 1889 but has been completely renovated +after a substantial fire in 1975. Front yard has been terraced and +landscaped. Mr. Michael Lennon, the present owner, teaches renovation +and restoration procedures. + +[Sidenote: *50] _Mr. W.W. Kinsley._ Was on Lee Highway in East Falls +Church, across from the present Continental Federal Savings and Loan, at +6711 Lee Highway, on a site now occupied by townhouses. + +[Sidenote: 51] _Mr. H.A. Fellows._ On the S.W. corner of Roosevelt St. +and Washington Blvd. in East Falls Church at 6404 Washington Blvd. Harry +Andrew Fellows was for six years mayor of Falls Church. Wife Alice, who +died about 1971, at age 105, was very knowledgeable about Falls Church. +Owners: John and Marlys McGrath and three children, Michelle, Michale +and Megan. Current owners are trying to restore the house to what it +used to be. Now called Memory Lane. + +[Sidenote: 52] _Residence of Mr. G.A.L. Merrifield._ 282 N. Washington +St. Large imposing house built in 1895. House at 210 W. Great Falls St. +also attributed to him. Was given an "Excellence in Design" award by +VPIS for outstanding interior renovation. Owned by Craver, Matthews, +Smith and Co., mail order and restoration consultants. + +[Sidenote: 53] _Cottage of Mr. G.A.L. Merrifield._ 306 N. Washington St. +Built 1870. Skinrood Realty once housed here. Renovated and owned by +Craver, Matthews, Smith and Co., who own 282 N. Washington St., across +Great Falls St. + +[Sidenote: *54] _Mr. Frank M. Thompson._ Was on south side Washington +Blvd., in East Falls Church, Arlington. Torn down for I-66. + +[Sidenote: 55] _Mr. Thomas Hillier._ 116 S. Oak St. Built 1890. Now +owned by Mrs. Alvin Tasker. + +[Sidenote: 56] _Mr. J.S. Riley._ 312 Park Ave. Cherry Hill farmhouse, +built c. 1840 on what was originally the 248-acre Trammell grant by Lord +Fairfax. Was the home of "Judge" Joseph S. Riley, responsible for +chartering the town of Falls Church in 1875, and of Miss Elizabeth +"Betty" Styles. Owned by the City and administered by the Historical +Commission. On the National Register of Historic Places. + +[Sidenote: *57] _Mr. O.H. Billingsley._ Was on the North side of the 100 +block of W. Broad St. near the present Brown's Hardware Store. + +[Sidenote: *58] _Mr. A.O. Von Herbulis._ Was near St. James Church, on +site of St. Joseph's School at 203 N. Spring St. He designed St. James +Church and Rectory. + +[Sidenote: 59] _Mr. Andrew M. Smith._ 316 N. Maple Ave. Built 1904, the +year _A Virginia Village_ was published. Also known as the Sheldon Cline +House (brother of John H. Cline). Now owned by the Columbia Baptist +Church. + +[Sidenote: 60] _Major Jos. T. Hiett._ 115 E. Jefferson St. Built c. +1890. Hiett was an officer in the Confederate Army. Very unusual +construction. Owners: Donovan and Joan Miers. + +[Sidenote: *61] _Mr. George Stambaugh._ Was at the N.W. corner of N. +Maple Ave. and W. Great Falls St., facing Great Falls St., now the site +of the Garden Court Townhouses. Note that it had a windmill. + +[Sidenote: 62] _The Falls Church (Episcopal)._ A photo made during the +Civil War. (See also pp. 33 to 61 for another photo and descriptive +text.) + +[Sidenote: 63] _Mr. Charles A. Marshall._ 215 E. Jefferson St., facing +Cherry St., on a 3-lot parcel. Built c. 1900. Owned by L.F. Jennings. + +[Sidenote: *64] _Mr. John S. Garrison._ Was on the S.W. corner of +Washington Blvd. and Lee Highway in East Falls Church. Later the office +of Dr. Howard Berger. Demolished for I-66. + +[Sidenote: *65] _Mr. F.A. Niles._ Was near Seven Corners on Route 7. +Later the home of the Duffys and Higgins. + +[Sidenote: *66] _Dr. T.C. Quick._ Was on the N.W. corner of N. +Washington St. and W. Great Falls, across the street from the present +Trammell's Gate Housing Development. Tunis Cline Quick was a classmate +of President Taft, who spoke from the steps of another former Quick home +now occupied by the Ives-Pearson Funeral Home at 472 N. Washington St. + +[Sidenote: *67] _Miss Ellen W. Green._ Was on the corner of N. +Washington and E. Columbia Sts., on the present site of the parking lot +of the Crossman Methodist Church. + +[Sidenote: *68] _Mr. Jno. D. Payne._ Was at Seven Corners near Koons +Ford, located at 1051 E. Broad St. Payne's Corners (now Seven Corners) +was named for him. He was a former mayor of Falls Church, 1906-07. + +[Sidenote: *69] _The Rectory. Rev. George S. Somerville._ Was the +Rectory of The Falls Church (Episcopal) from 1900 to 1912 on S. Oak St., +next to 116 in the present parking lot of 803 W. Broad St. Both houses +were built by Thomas Hillier. (See item 55.) + +[Sidenote: *70] _Dr. L.E. Gott._ Was on 15th Road, near the end of E. +Columbia St., in what is now Arlington County. Dr. Louis Edward Gott was +a surgeon in the Confederate Army. He apparently did not sign the +Ordinance of Secession and helped draw up the town charter in 1875. + +[Sidenote: *71] _Mr. R.J. Yates._ Was located in the middle of the 100 +block of W. Columbia St. on the present site of the Columbia Baptist +Church. It was once the site of the Forbes Institute, a private school +run by the Forbes family. + +[Sidenote: 72] _Mr. S.A. Copper._ 206 E. Jefferson St. Built 1889. On a +very attractive lot. House and barn have been renovated. Owned by Mr. +and Mrs. Paul Quinn. + +[Sidenote: 73] _Mrs. J.L. Auchmoody._ 400 Great Falls St. Built in the +1850s. Julia L. Smith was married to Walter Auchmoody and helped run the +Star Tavern, at the S.W. corner of Broad and Washington Sts. The Tavern +once also served as the post office. House then known as "Mother +Auchmoody's." More recently owned by the Hinman family and then Mr. and +Mrs. Malcolm Smith (now both deceased). Lot was subdivided under the +terms of an easement, and a large house was built next door by Robert +Daube. 400 W. Great Falls now owned by Elizabeth G. Warden. + +[Sidenote: *74] _Dr. Samuel Luttrell._ Was at 133 E. Broad St. next to +the Murphy House that was once the City Hall (See item 86). Was also +once the home of the Edmonds family. Now on the site of the Bear's Head +restaurant. + +[Sidenote: 75] _Mrs. C. Larner._ 329 N. Maple Ave. at W. Columbia St. +Built in 1850-53 but has had many alternations. Hip-roofed house painted +red. Still has a well and pump and said to have a ghost. Has an +underground room in back yard believed to have been a hiding place for +slaves during the Civil War. Minie balls have been found on the grounds. +Owners: Theodore W. and Mary Louise Jones. + +[Sidenote: 76] _Mr. W.H. Barksdale._ 6403 Washington Blvd. across from +the Fellows house in East Falls Church, Arlington. (See item 51). +Owners: Col. and Mrs. Samuel Greenberg. + +[Sidenote: *77] _Mr. Wm. B. Wright._ Was at 424 E. Broad St., but was +demolished in 1979 to make way for the Tollgate Townhouse Development. +Built 1870. Known as the Wright/Galpin House. Archeological +investigations as the possible site of the Wren's Tavern were negative. + +[Sidenote: 78] _Mr. J.W. Seay._ 116 W. Great Falls St. Built c. 1890. +Known as the Seay/Porter/Oliphant/Kuhn House. Owners: Mr. and Mrs. +Robert W. Beckham. + +[Sidenote: *79] _Mr. J.W. Wells._ Was at 103 E. Jefferson St. across +from Dr. Macon Ware's home at 108 E. Jefferson St. which is still +standing with three new houses nearby. + +[Sidenote: 80] Mr. M.H. Brinkerhoff. 200 E. Broad St. Built 1890 (?) +Owner: Mr. Lawrence Proctor. + +[Sidenote: 81] _Mrs. A.V. Piggott._ 400 E. Broad St. Better known as the +Albert Brown Piggott House. Built about 1904, it basically is unchanged, +but looks different. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Rene Ossorio. + +[Sidenote: 82] _Mr. G.B. Ives._ 209 E. Broad St., next door to the Falls +Church Presbyterian Church, which now owns it. Known now as the +Westminster House. Built in 1855 by Mr. Ives. + +[Sidenote: 83] _Mr. Nathan Lynch._ 304 E. Broad St. Built in 1898. +William Nathan Lynch had a two-level barn where he kept cows and sold +milk. A gazebo and fishpond were added about 1928 by his son William +Henry Lynch. Gazebo was built from the old Birch barn and the horses' +teeth-marks are still visible. Rear of the property was subdivided in +1983 for four townhouses, part of The Wrens. Extensive renovation, +inside and out, has been carried out by the present owners, Mr. and Mrs. +John R. Seline. + +[Sidenote: *84] _Mrs. Mary G. Sims._ Was located at 210 Little Falls St. +between Park Ave. and W. Great Falls St. Now an office building across +from the City Hall. + +[Sidenote: 85] _Mr. A.E. Rowell._ 923 W. Broad St. The Rowell House was +also known as the "Old Brick House." Built in 1855 by George B. Ives, +the Rowell family lived here for 62 years. Formerly had a barn with a +harness room and a glass conservatory for flowers. Was an antique shop +several years ago and the yard was also used for antique sales. While +the house still stands, it has been renovated and surrounded by a +townhouse complex known as Rowell Court, and bears no resemblance to the +original structure. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Rolander. + +[Sidenote: *86] _Dr. S.S. Luttrell._ Was at 155 E. Broad St., and later +known as the Murphy House. It served as the last temporary City Hall in +the 1950s. + +[Sidenote: 87] _Oakwood Cemetery._ Located off N. Roosevelt St. behind +Koon's Ford. Many old time residents of Falls Church are buried here. A +corner of the foundation of Fairfax Chapel, built about 1790, and +demolished during the Civil War by Union soldiers, was recently (1984) +revealed by the falling of a tree during a storm. + +[Sidenote: *88] _Mr. H.N. Ryer._ Was in East Falls Church, Arlington. + +[Sidenote: 89] _Dr. M.E. Church._ Description under his photo is +eloquent. For photo of his home, see p. 13. + +[Sidenote: 90] _Miss B.C. Merrifield._ 210 W. Great Falls St. Built +1876. Known as the Merrifield/Orme House. Once owned by Harry O. Bishop +and Mayor Albert Orme. Presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Payne. + +[Sidenote: *91] _Mr. R.C.L. Moncure._ Was on the south side of +Washington Blvd. east of Lee Highway in East Falls Church, Arlington. +Demolished when I-66 was built. + +[Sidenote: *92] _Mr. George M. Newell._ Built 1896. Was on N. Washington +St. on the present site of the parking lot next to the Columbia Baptist +Church, and next to the James A. Dickinson house at 351. The 1904 +edition of _A Virginia Village_ was originally printed in his small shop +at the rear, by Joseph H. Newell, his son. (Newell-Cole Printing is now +located in Alexandria, Va.) + +[Sidenote: 95] _Mr. H.C. Birge._ 610 Fulton Ave. Built 1890. Now known +as the Schefer School. Originally part of a 25-acre tract of the Cherry +Hill Farm. Rothsay Street along the rear of the property was dedicated +to provide access to the Rothsay Station on the W. and O. D. railroad, +between Pennsylvania Ave. and N. Lee St. Also known as _Woodland_. +Owner: Mrs. Eileen L.C. Schefer. + +[Sidenote: *96] _The Inn._ Another name for the Eagle House Hotel, which +burned down about 1920. Was located near the present site of the State +Theatre at 220 N. Washington St. Occupants from about 1915 to 1919 were +Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon S. Cline, Sr. He was the Managing Editor of old The +Washington Star. Several of their children have remained in the Falls +Church area. Eli Northrup, an undertaker, was once the proprietor. + +[Sidenote: *97] _Mr. Henry R. Thompson._ Was on the S. side of +Washington Blvd. in East Falls Church, on the E. side of Lee Highway. +Demolished about 1975 to make way for I-66. + +[Sidenote: *98] _Columbia Baptist Church._ Was located in the 100 block +of E. Broad St. Demolished in 1909. A new stone church was relocated on +the corner of N. Washington and W. Columbia Sts. The stone building has +been replaced by a much larger brick structure. Address: 103 W. Columbia +St. + +[Sidenote: 99] _Dulin Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (South)._ Now +the Dulin United Methodist Church, 513 E. Broad St. Built on land +donated by William Dulin about 1869, shortly after the Civil War, +following the separation into the Northern and Southern branches of the +Methodist church. + +[Sidenote: 100] _Mrs. M.E. DePutron._ 508 Lincoln Ave. Was also known as +the Sherwood Farm, on 210 acres. Included the hill on which Mt. Daniel +Elementary School (2328 N. Oak) is now located. Built in 1893-94 by Mr. +and Mrs. Jacob Coleman DePutron. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. Roger +Wollenberg. Roger is currently a member of the City Council and a former +member of the School Board. Pat Wollenberg was formerly Vice-chairman of +the Historical Commission and a re-founder of the VPIS in 1965. + +[Sidenote: 101] _Mr. G.W. Cassilear._ 502 Walden Court. Known also as +the Cassilear/Lamont/Bell House, or _Bonnie Briar_. Built about 1898 on +what was part of the Crossman tract. Property originally consisted of +the house, a summer house (now gone), a fish pond, a sheep house (now +gone), a concrete ice-house, and a barn, on 11.66 acres. Was owned by +Mrs. William (Aloise) Bell, who died in February 1985. + +[Sidenote: 102] _St. James Roman Catholic Church._ 905 Park Ave. Built +about 1902 to replace the old church on West St. at the St. James +Cemetery. Has been renovated and enlarged. Designed by A.O. Von Herbulis +(See item 58). + +[Sidenote: *103] _The Methodist Episcopal Church._ Isaac Crossman +donated the land and funds for the Crossman Methodist Episcopal Church, +built in 1875. It was demolished in 1963. The new Crossman United +Methodist Church is now on the same site on the corner of N. Washington +and E. Columbia Sts. This was the Northern Methodist church; Dulin was +the Southern Methodist church. + +[Sidenote: *104] _Mr. V.E. Kerr._ Was one of the group of houses south +of the Falls Church Bank (now the site of George Mason Square) on the +west side of South Washington Street about opposite The Falls Church +(Episcopal). Other houses in this group were the Updike House, the James +Walter Antique Shop and the Edith Thompson House (all gone). + +[Sidenote: *105] _Mr. Herbert G. Hopkins._ Location unknown. + +[Sidenote: *106] _Dr. N. F. Graham._ Was on the present Safeway grocery +site at 7397 Lee Highway, at the end of West St. in Fairfax County. + +[Sidenote: 107] _Capt. M. S. Roberts,_ 409 S. West St. Known as the +Roberts/Burdick house. Capt. Roberts, who was wounded at Antietam, built +the house in 1867 with wood and hardware shipped by his brother from +Maine. Milton E. Roberts inherited the property from his uncle about +1915 and began a poultry business. Subsequently sold part of the +property to the City for Roberts Park. House now owned by Mr. and Mrs. +Edward A. Burdick. + +[Sidenote: 109] _The Misses Birch._ The Birch House, 312 E. Broad St. +Built about 1835 but added to and renovated several times. Sold by Mr. +and Mrs. Milton T. Birch in 1976 to Historic Falls Church, Inc., which +in turn sold it to Mr. James Reid to build "The Wrens" on the side and +rear portion. The old barn had been converted to a garage and has since +been renovated into a handsome carriage house, as part of "The Wrens." +VPIS was the first patron, donating $1,000 toward the preservation of +the structure. On the National Register of Historic Places. Now owned by +Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Mabry. Kenneth and Patricia Loustalot were the +first owners after restoration (April 1980). + +[Sidenote: 110] _Rev. H.A. Beach._ 212 E. Jefferson at Cherry St. Built +c. 1904. There was once a pump and a pulley for drawing water. +Originally part of the Copper property (p. 72). Owners: John and Nancy +Whitman. + +[Sidenote: 111] _Congregational Church._ 222 N. Washington St., next to +the State Theatre. Formerly used as a police station, town hall, +school, recreation center and library, and finally became the Washington +House, the current headquarters of the Woman's Club of Falls Church. +Used for meetings and special events. + +[Sidenote: *112] _Mr. Eli J. Northrup._ Was located on the E. side of N. +Washington St. in the 100 block. Northrup helped organize the Oakwood +Cemetery Assn. and the Falls Church Telephone and Telegraph Co. He was +an undertaker and ran the Eagle House (p. 96) at one time. + + + + +STRUCTURES LISTED BY NAME + + Auchmoody, Mrs. J.L. 73 + + Ball, W.A. 39 + Banks, Nathan 20 + Barksdale, W.H. 76 + Beach, Rev. H.A. 110 + Biggs, W.W. 44 + Billingsley, O.H. 57 + The Misses Birch 109 + Birge, H.C. 95 + Blanton, C.L. 42 + Brinkerhoff, M.H. 80 + Brown, J.W. 14 + Buxton, C.H. 29 + + Cassilear, G.W. 101 + Cherry Hill (Riley, J.S.) 56 + Church, Dr. M.E. (Portrait) 89 + Church, M.E. 13 + Columbia Baptist Church 98 + Congregational Church 111 + Copper, S.A. 72 + Crocker, Henry 27 + Crocker, E.F. 27 + Crossman, Charles 24 + Crossman, George G. 7 + Crossman Methodist Episcopal Church 103 + + DePutron, Mrs. M.E. 100 + Dickinson, Dr. James A. 21 + Dodge, Mr. Pickering 38 + Dulin Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (South) 99 + + Eagle House 96 + Eastman, A.P. 31 + Eastover (Dodge, Pickering) 38 + Eells, Mrs. Annie 37 + Elliott, J.C. 48 + Ellison, W.M. 6 + Erwin, George L. 15 + + Fadeley, Dr. George B. 22 + Fellows, H.A. 51 + Fenwick, E.T. 4 + + Garner, Mrs. Emma 16 + Garrison, John S. 64 + Gibson, John N. 47 + Gott, Dr. L.E. 70 + Gould, J.B. 9 + Graham, Dr. N.F. 106 + Green, Miss Ellen W. 67 + Gundry, Miss M. 8 + + Hawxhurst, George W. 43 + Hiett, Major Joseph T. 60 + Hillier, Thomas 55 + Hodgkin, Dr.J.B. 25 + Hopkins, Herbert G. 105 + Hopkins, Major M.S. 18 + Hough, E.C. 17 + + Inn, The 96 + Ives, G.B. 82 + + Kerr, V.E. 104 + Kinsley, W.W. 50 + + Larner, Mrs. C. 75 + Lawton House front + Lothrop, A.M. front + Luttrell, Samuel 74 + Luttrell, Dr. S.S. 86 + Lynch, Nathan 83 + + McInturff, G.F. 12 + + Mankin, Mrs. Charles A. 36 + Mankin, George W. 28 + Mankin Pharmacy 23 + Mankin, Mrs. C.E. 34 + Marshall, Charles A. 63 + Merrifield, Miss B.C. 90 + Merrifield, G.A.L. 52, 53 + Moncure, R.C.L. 91 + Munson, D.O. 26 + + Newell, George M. 92 + Niles, F.A. 65 + Northrup, E.J. 112 + Nowlan, W.H. 10 + + Oakwood Cemetery 87 + + Payne, J.D. 68 + Piggott, A.V. 81 + Poole, G.W. 11 + Presbyterian Church 5 + + Quick, Dr. T.C. 66 + + The Rectory (Somerville, Rev. G.S.) 69 + Rhodes, Miss Ada 49 + Riley, J.S. 56 + Roberts, Captain M.S. 107 + Rollins, George F. 32 + Rowell, A.E. 85 + Ryer, H.N. 88 + + St. James Roman Catholic Church 102 + Seay, J.W. 7 + Sims, Mrs. Mary G. 84 + Smith, Andrew M. 59 + Snoddy, T.B. 40 + Somerville, Rev. George S. 69 + Stambaugh, George 61 + Stewart, Charles A. 35 + + Talbott, Dr. T.M. 41 + Taylor Store 30 + The Falls Church 33, 62 + Thompson, Frank M. 54 + Thompson, Henry R. 97 + Thornburg, S.H. 19 + + Virginia Training School 8 + Von Herbulis, A.O. 58 + + Walters, C.C. 45 + Wells, J.H. 79 + Wright, William B. 77 + + Yates, R.J. 71 + + + + +STRUCTURES LISTED BY ADDRESS + + Broad Street, East + 100 block (Mankin's Store) 34 + 100 block (Columbia Baptist Church) 98 + 120 (J.B. Gould) 9 + 133 (S. Luttrell) 74 + 155 (S.S. Luttrell) 86 + 200 (M.H. Brinkerhoff) 80 + 209 (G.B. Ives) 82 + 225 (Presbyterian Church) 5 + 304 (N. Lynch) 83 + 312 (The Misses Birch) 109 + 400 (A.V. Piggott) 81 + 424 (W.B. Wright) 77 + 513 (Dulin Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (South)) 99 + 500 block (C.H. Buxton) 29 + 1000 block (J.D. Payne) 68 + + Broad Street, West + 100 block (M.E. Church) 13 + 100 block (J.W. Brown) 14 + 100 block (O.H. Billingsley) 57 + 100 block (G.W. Mankin) 28 + 200 block (C.A. Mankin) 36 + 260 (G.B. Fadeley) 22 + 300 block (Virginia Training School, Miss M. Gundry, Principal) 8 + 923 (A.E. Rowell) 85 + 934 (Ellison, W.M.) 6 + + Columbia Street, East + on 15th Road (L.E. Gott) 70 + 109 (G.F. Rollins) 32 + 114 (W.H. Nowlan) 10 + 117 (W.A. Ball) 39 + 211 (E. Garner) 16 + 219 (J.W. Garner) 46 + + Columbia Street, West + 100 block (R.J. Yates) 71 + + Fairfax Street, East + 115 (The Falls Church) 33, 62 + 100 block (J.B. Hodgkin) 25 + + Fulton Street + 610 (H.C. Birge) 95 + + Great Falls Street and Maple Avenue + (G. Stambaugh) 61 + + Great Falls Street + 110 (A. Rhodes) 49 + 116 (J.W. Seay) 78 + 210 (B.C. Merrifield) 90 + 300 (G.L. Erwin) 15 + 400 (J.L. Auchmoody) 73 + 414 (A. Eells) 37 + + Jefferson Street, East + 103 (J.H. Wells) 79 + 115 (J.T. Hiett) 60 + 206 (S.A. Cooper) 72 + 211 (E.C. Hough) 17 + 212 (H.A. Beach) 110 + 215 (C.A. Marshall) 63 + + Lawton Street + 203 (The Lawton House) front + + Lee Highway + 6700 block (W.W. Kingsley) 50 + 6733 (A.P. Eastman) 31 + and West Street (N.F. Graham) 106 + + Lincoln Avenue + 508 (M.E. DePutron) 100 + + Little Falls Street + 200 block (M.G. Sims) 84 + 200 block (W.W. Biggs) 44 + + Maple Street, North + 316 (A.M. Smith) 59 + 319 (E.F. Crocker) 27 + 321 (H. Crocker) 27 + and Great Falls (G.F. McInturff) 12 + 329 (C. Larner) 75 + + McKinley Street + (T.M. Talbott) 41 + + Oak Street, South + 114 (The Rectory--Rev. G.S. Somerville) 69 + 116 (T. Hillier) 55 + + Park Avenue + 312 (J.S. Riley) 56 + 900 (C.C. Walters) 45 + 905 (St. James Roman Catholic Church) 102 + + Roosevelt Street + Oakwood Cemetery 87 + + Spring Street + (A.O. Von Herbulis) 58 + + Underwood Street + (G.G. Crossman) 7 + + Walden Court + 502 (G.W. Cassilear) 101 + + Washington Blvd., Arlington + near Lee Hwy. (R.C.L. Moncure) 91 + east of Lee Hwy. (F.M. Thompson) 97 + (H.R. Thompson) 97 + at Roosevelt (W.H. Barksdale) 76 + at Roosevelt (H.A. Fellows) 51 + 6831 (G.W. Poole) 11 + 6839 (E.T. Fenwick) 4 + 6857 (C.A. Stewart) 325 + at 25th Street (P. Dodge) 38 + + Washington Street, North + 100 block (Mankin Pharmacy) 23 + 100 block (E.J. Northrup) 112 + 200 block (The Inn) 96 + 222 (Congregational Church) 111 + 223 (M.S. Hopkins) 18 + 282 (G.A.L. Merrifield) 52 + 305 (T.C. Quick) 66 + 306 (G.A.L. Merrifield) 53 + 351 (J.A. Dickinson) 21 + 353 (G.M. Newell) 92 + 384 (The Methodist Episcopal Church) 103 + at s.e. corner of Columbia St. (E.W. Green) 67 + at n.e. corner of Columbia St. (G.W. Hawxhurst) 43 + 400 block (T.B. Snoddy) 40 + 421 (C. Crossman) 24 + + Washington Street, South (V.E. Kerr) 104 + + West Street, South + 409 (M.S. Roberts) 107 + + Wilson Blvd. and McKinley Street, Arlington (A.M. Lothrop) Front + + + + + A Virginia Village + + Historical Sketch + + of + + Falls Church + + and the + + Old Colonial Church + + + PRESS OF J. H. NEWELL + + FALLS CHURCH, VA. + + 1904 + +[Illustration: School House] + + + + +TABLE OF CONTENTS + + INTRODUCTORY 1 + + THE TOWN OF FALLS CHURCH 3 + + THE OLD COLONIAL CHURCH 33 + + FALLS CHURCH IN THE CIVIL WAR 62 + + CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES, ETC. 77 + +[Illustration: Mr. A. M. Lothrop] + + + + +PREFACE. + + +In preparing this little book it has been the aim of the Editor to +obtain facts of the early history, as well as to set forth what changes +time has wrought in the erstwhile veritable hamlet of years gone by. To +this end he has exerted every effort in the examination of records, that +authentic data only, in describing the old church and village, may +appear in these pages. Aside from the descendants of the old settlers, +the heads of many households in the village of Falls Church have left +kindred and friends in other sections of the country, and identified +themselves heartily in the work of developing and beautifying the +natural advantages of the spot they have selected for the building of +new homes. It is but natural that interest should be taken in the +evidence of their thrift and enterprise, by those whose lives were +linked with theirs in times past, as in the town they have helped to +build up. The attempt has been to join the past with the present, in +reciting incidents of the early days, to show no less the improvements +that have come as the years roll on. + +The joint work has been done by Messrs. Chas. A. Stewart, Pickering +Dodge and George M. Newell, Mr. Stewart having collected, edited and +compiled the text, Mr. Dodge the photographic work, and Mr. Newell the +printing. + +The Editor is indebted for courtesies and assistance to Mr. H. H. Dodge, +Superintendent of Mount Vernon, a vestryman of Pohick Church, Mr. H. S. +Ryer, stenographer, Mr. F. M. Richardson, Clerk of the Court, Fairfax +Co., and Rev. George S. Somerville, Rector of the Falls Church. Valuable +information was obtained from Howe's History of Virginia, Snowden's Old +Landmarks in Virginia and Maryland, as from the Official Records of the +Union and Confederate Armies. + + M. M. O. + +[Illustration: The Lawton House] + + + + +A Virginia Village. + +Introductory. + + +Falls Church, while a Virginia village, is thoroughly cosmopolitan. +According to a recent census only about fifty per cent. of its +inhabitants are natives of Virginia, the rest coming from the various +States of the Union or from foreign countries. + +Falls Church might properly be called a national village, since its +citizens are chiefly employees of the government, and the interests of +its eleven hundred people naturally center at the National Capitol. + +Every geographical section of the United States has here a +representative type of citizen who has chosen this quiet village for a +home. For this and other reasons Falls Church is probably the most +thoroughly American community in the country. This distinction, if +admitted, must come as a natural sequence from its situation as a suburb +of the Nation's capital, from the cosmopolitan character of its society, +and from the fact that so many of its residents are connected with the +Executive Departments as a part of the machinery of representative +government. + +The village is situated in a county of the Old Dominion rich in events +of historic interest. In Colonial days, in the times of the Revolution, +as in the days of the civil strife, Fairfax County furnished her quota +of illustrious sons. At Gunston Hall on the Potomac dwelt George Mason, +author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, pronounced the most remarkable +paper of the epoch, and the foundation of the great American assertion +of independence as afterward draughted by Jefferson. In Fairfax County +lived and died the immortal Washington, and his ashes repose in its +soil at his beloved Mount Vernon. During the late civil war every part +of its territory was a battle ground and breast-works thrown up by +contending armies over a generation ago may still be seen here and there +within its borders. At the beginning of our war with Spain twenty-five +thousand volunteer soldiers from a dozen States pitched their tents on a +favored spot in this ancient county, where they were schooled to +proficiency in the art of modern warfare. + +The old Episcopal church, from which Falls Church takes its name, still +stands as a monument linking colonial days with the present. Around it +cluster memories of great events in American history, for past its +substantial walls have marched soldiers of all our leading wars since +the day Washington guided the lordly Braddock over the road hard by down +to the time of our recent war with Spain. The old church has passed +through many vicissitudes since Washington worshipped there. It served +as a recruiting station for patriots of the Revolution, then abandoned +as a house of worship for a long period of years; subsequently it was +reopened and throughout the civil war used alternately as a hospital and +a stable by the Union Army. To complete the chain of events in this +connection soldiers enlisted for the Spanish-American war were encamped +near by and pickets of the camp stood guard under the shadow of its +walls. + +Falls Church thirty years ago was a mere hamlet of, perhaps, a dozen +houses. It is to-day the largest town in the county of Fairfax and its +population is steadily increasing. Forces are now at work which may +eventually make it the largest town in Northern Virginia, with the +possible exception of Alexandria. Upon the completion of the new bridges +now in course of construction across the Potomac and the improved +facilities for reaching Washington by means of steam roads and trolley +lines, the tide of suburban home-seekers from the capital city must turn +this way, whereby this Virginia village is destined to become a Virginia +city which may bind the old mother commonwealth closer than ever before +to the Federal City and the National government. + + + + +The Town of Falls Church. + + +Falls Church is an incorporated town of about eleven hundred +inhabitants. Endowed by State law with the name of town when a mere +hamlet, it is still "the village" to its citizens. It is situated on the +Bluemont branch of the Southern Railway 9 miles from Alexandria, and 45 +miles from Bluemont at the foot of the Blue Ridge. An electric railway +connects it with Georgetown, D. C., 6 miles distant, and it is 13 miles +over the Southern Railway to the business center of Washington. Located +originally in Fairfax County its growing area has overlapped into the +adjoining county of Alexandria, taking within its corporate limits the +extreme southwestern part of what was at one time the District of +Columbia. + +It is essentially a village of homes, nearly all of which are set in +ample grounds adorned with rare trees, well-kept lawns, and tasteful +shrubbery and hedges. Its fourteen miles of streets are bordered with +beautiful maples, and in summer the principal avenues are bowers of +living green. + +Like the National Capital in its inception, Falls Church is a town of +magnificent distances. Within its corporate limits is room for ten +thousand people without overcrowding. + +At an altitude of 300 feet above Washington, summer days here are +pleasant and summer nights cool and sleep-inducing. + +The social atmosphere is most refined, and the moral tone of its +citizens cannot be surpassed. No saloons have been allowed in Falls +Church since its incorporation as a town thirty years ago. + +The town has an excellent graded public school with a high class of +instructors, besides a number of private schools. Eleven churches, +including three for colored people just outside the town limits, afford +ample accommodation for all church-goers within a radius of many miles. +All the leading religious denominations are represented. The church +edifices are most creditable for a town of its size, and two are fine +examples of church architecture. + +[Illustration: Mr. E. T. Fenwick.] + +The history of Falls Church begins with the building of the old +Episcopal Church from which the place takes its name, but the town +itself is of modern growth. By a strange series of coincidences the old +church, as well as the town at a later period, has been in touch in +various ways with the National Government since Colonial days. +Washington was a vestryman and at times attended service here. It served +as a recruiting office for patriots of the Revolution. Dolly Madison +took the road for Leesburg leading past this church when fleeing from +the White House during the panic of the British invasion. Capt. Henry +Fairfax went forth with his company of Fairfax volunteers from the Falls +Church to the Mexican war and his body, borne home from far Saltillo, +found a resting place within its churchyard. Skirmishes between Union +and Confederate troops occurred all around its walls, and during the war +of '61 it served the purposes of a hospital for Union soldiers. To make +the chain of incidents complete, a farm near by was chosen at the +outbreak of the Spanish-American war as a training camp for United +States volunteer soldiers. + +[Illustration: Presbyterian Church] + +Few events of moment in government affairs can occur without directly +affecting some resident of Falls Church, since this little town has its +quota among the officers of the army and navy, in the rank and file of +the army, and on the forecastle of the man-of-war, to say nothing of a +full representation on the rolls of the several executive departments. +When the battle ship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor two jackies +from Falls Church were on board, fortunately escaping with their lives. +After Aguinaldo's capture by General Funston, it was a Falls Church man +who commanded the gunboat which conveyed the captive around the Island +of Luzon to Manila. The brave General Lawton, killed on the firing line +in the Philippine war, had so recently been a citizen of the town that +his death was deplored as a personal loss by his former neighbors. + +[Illustration: Mr. W. M. Ellison] + +About the middle of the last century there was a large influx of +settlers to Fairfax County from Northern New York and the New England +States, attracted by the milder climate and the cheaper lands then +offered for sale. Among the families who came about that period and +settled nearest the old Falls Church were the Baileys, Birches, +Barretts, Coes, Ellisons, Iveses, Lounsberrys, Munsons, Osbornes, Ryers +and Sherwoods--all familiar names, and many of them or their immediate +descendants now prominent residents of this village. + +[Illustration: Mr. George G. Crossman] + +Early in the seventies two government clerks drove over the rough and +hilly road from Washington and looked around the little hamlet of a +dozen houses scattered along the Leesburg turnpike from the old brick +church to the railroad station at West End. They were impressed with its +inviting hills as the ideal situation for country residences. The +excellent water from unlimited springs, the cool breezes and pleasing +prospect from the hilltops overlooking hot and dusty Washington in the +distance, persuaded them to make their homes in this ideal place. At +that time the railroad facilities to Washington were most unpromising. +The coaches were little better than the present freight car caboose, the +schedule was unreliable, the trains slow, and a change of cars had to be +made at the Alexandria junction. Such drawbacks did not deter these men +from carrying out their purpose of locating here. They decided to ride +or drive back and forth to their work in the department at Washington. +Others soon followed these pioneers, and a settlement of government +employees was the result. Many of those who followed the first two +pioneers were from New England. They were families for the most part +endowed with all those sturdy qualities of integrity, frugality and +piety, characteristic of their section, and soon the church of their +fathers stood within a stone's throw of the church of the early +Virginians. + +Since the day our townsmen, Mr. Charles H. Buxton and Prof. W. W. +Kinsley, the pioneers of modern Falls Church, first settled here, the +increase of population has been slow, but it has been of steady and +sterling growth. The conservatism of the land-owners has given less +rapid growth than were its tone purely speculative. The population as +reported by the United States census for 1890 was 792; the census of +1900 gives the population at 1007, an increase of over 27 per cent. +during the ten years. The tax roll for 1903 shows property of taxable +value of $420,125, an increase of $149,040 over 1890. + +[Illustration: Virginia Training School. Miss M. Gundry, Principal.] + +Of all those who followed Messrs. Buxton and Kinsley to Falls Church, +who built homes and made the little straggling settlement at the +cross-roads the beautiful village it is to-day, space will not permit +even a brief mention. But there are a number of well-known citizens +still residing here who formed the nucleus of that "department colony" +of thirty years ago, and through whose influence in great measure this +village has become a settlement of government employees. Most prominent +among these settlers of the 70's who are connected with the executive +departments in Washington are Messrs. G. A. L. Merrifield and M. S. +Roberts of the Pension Bureau, Albert P. Eastman of the War Department +and George F. Rollins of the Treasury Department. + +[Illustration: Dr. J. B. Gould] + +The rate of taxation levied by the town government is 60 cents on the +hundred dollars, 30 cents of which is for school purposes and 30 cents +for all expenses of the corporation. To this must be added the taxes +collected by the county of Fairfax, 75 cents on the hundred dollars, +making a total tax on property holders in the town of $1.35 on each one +hundred dollars of the assessed valuation. Property within the +corporation is exempt from county road tax and district school tax. +Property in that part of the village lying within Alexandria County is +assessed in like manner by the town and the authorities of the latter +county. The tax rate for Alexandria County for the year 1903 on the one +hundred dollars of assessed valuation of personal and real property was: +State tax, 35 cents; county levy, 40 cents, and for court-house +purposes, 10 cents--a total of 85 cents chargeable to the property +owners of East Falls Church, the section of the village in this county. +An additional tax of 50 cents for road purposes and 40 cents for the +district school is levied against taxable property in this county +outside of East Falls Church. + +[Illustration: Mr. W. H. Nowlan] + +When scarcely entitled to be designated by the name of village, the +little settlement on the Leesburg turnpike known as Falls Church was, by +an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, incorporated as a town. The +act in question was approved March 30, 1875, and on April 13 following +the new town began its career with the following officials duly +installed: Mayor, Dr. J. J. Moran; Clerk, H. J. England; Town Sergeant, +E. F. Crocker; Councilmen, Dr. J. J. Moran, George B. Ives, J. E. Birch, +T. T. Fowler, Isaac Crossman, J. J. Carter, Dr. L. E. Gott. + +The act of incorporation was successively amended by the State +Legislature in 1879, 1890 and 1894. Sections 1 and 2 of the act of +incorporation as amended, approved March 2, 1894, read as follows: + +SECTION 1. So much of the territories in the counties of Fairfax and +Alexandria, together with all the improvements and appurtenances +thereunto belonging, as is contained in the following boundaries, +to-wit: Beginning at the corner of Alexandria and Fairfax counties, on +J. C. DePutron's farm; thence to the corner of J. C. Nicholson and W. S. +Patton, in Mistress Ellen Gordon's line; thence to the corner of Sewell +and L. S. Abbott on the new cut road; thence to the corner of A. A. +Freeman and Mrs. Henry J. England on the Falls Church and Fairfax Court +House road; thence along centre of said road to centre of bridge over +Holmes Run; thence easterly in a straight line to the northwest corner +of the colored Methodist church on the road leading to Annandale; +thence easterly to the crossing of the Alexandria and Georgetown roads +at Taylor's corner; thence along the north line of said Georgetown road +to the corner of T. M. Talbott and Emma Taylor's estate; thence to a pin +oak tree near Dr. L. E. Gott's spring; thence to a stone on the property +of J. A. and Mrs. J. H. C. Brown, formerly the northeast corner of John +Brown's barn; thence to the crossing of Isaac Grossman's and Bowen's +line on the chain bridge road; thence to the place of beginning, is and +shall continue forever to be a body politic and corporate under the name +and style of the town of Falls Church, and shall possess and exercise +the rights and powers conferred on towns by the general laws of this +State and shall be subject to the restrictions and limitations imposed +by said law in so far as the provisions thereof are not in conflict with +the provisions of this act. + +[Illustration: Mr. G. W. Poole] + +SEC. 2. Be it further enacted. That the government of said town shall be +vested in a council of nine qualified voters, who shall be elected by +ballot on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; +three of whom shall hold that office for one year, three for two years +and three for three years respectively, the same to be determined by +lot. The successors of the three whose terms expire each year shall be +elected annually on the fourth Thursday in May and shall hold their +offices for three years, or until their successors are duly elected and +qualified. The terms of office of all councilmen shall begin on the +first day of July of each year succeeding their election. Any person +entitled to vote in the magisterial districts of Falls Church or +Providence, in Fairfax County, or Washington magisterial district in +Alexandria County, and residing in said corporation and duly registered +by the town clerk, shall be entitled to vote at all elections for +councilmen. The town clerk and two members of the council whose terms of +office do not expire with that year, and who shall be designated by the +mayor, shall conduct such election between the hours of one and seven, +post meridian, and shall make return of the same to the mayor who shall +issue certificates, countersigned by the clerk, to those elected. Tie +votes shall be decided by lot, and contests shall be decided by the +council under the law governing contests for the county offices. + +[Illustration: Mr. G. F. McInturff] + +[Illustration: Mr. M. E. Church] + +Section five provides that the council shall annually levy and collect +necessary taxes for roads, streets, school and corporation purposes, +which tax for all purposes shall not exceed sixty cents on one hundred +dollars without the consent of two-thirds of the resident freeholders of +the corporation. An amendment gives the council the privilege of levying +an additional tax of ten cents on the hundred dollars for the purpose of +establishing and maintaining a high school course in Jefferson +Institute, the public school, whenever requested by the town school +board. + +Section eight provides that the "town sergeant shall be the executive +officer of the council, and shall have the authority, jurisdiction and +fees of a constable of Fairfax and Alexandria counties within and one +mile beyond the corporate limits. He shall, unless otherwise provided, +be the town treasurer and as such shall collect all taxes, fines and +licenses, and disburse the same upon the warrant of the council, signed +by the mayor and clerk." + +[Illustration: Mr. J. W. Brown, Store and Residence] + +The same section makes the sergeant overseer of roads and streets, +giving him the same powers as overseers of roads under the special road +laws of Fairfax and Alexandria counties, his compensation to be fixed by +the council. + +Section nine provides that no district school tax and no district road +tax shall be assessed and collected, except by the council, on any +property within the corporation limits. + +The last important section of the act of incorporation, which assures +the peace and quiet of this village, is the restriction placed upon the +liquor traffic. It reads as follows: + +SEC. 10. That any person applying to the county of Fairfax or the county +of Alexandria for a license to sell liquors of any kind, either as a +keeper of an ordinary or eating house, or as a merchant, within the +corporate limits of the town of Falls Church in the said counties, or +within one mile beyond the limits of the said corporation shall produce +before the courts or boards having control of the issuance of licenses +for the sale of liquor of said counties a certificate of said council of +said town to the effect that the applicant is a suitable person and that +no good reason is known to said council why said license should not be +granted. And the courts of said counties or boards having authority +shall not grant the said license to sell liquors within the limits above +prescribed until and unless such a certificate be given. And under no +circumstances and in no event whatever shall the sale of liquors be +licensed in any part of the corporation where license for the sale +thereof has been prohibited under the provisions of chapter twenty-five +of the Code of Virginia, known as the local option law. + +[Illustration: Mr. Geo. L. Erwin] + +The town is divided into three wards and each ward is represented by +three councilmen. + +THE BOARD OF HEALTH, appointed annually by the council, looks after the +health of the town, with authority to carry out such sanitary +regulations as may be deemed wise and expedient. The Board of Health for +the present year consists of Dr. T. C. Quick, Chairman, and Councilmen +John H. Wells and Elmer I. Crump. + +THE FIRE DEPARTMENT of the village was organized in 1898. The officers +are a chief engineer and three fire wardens, one from each ward, and a +captain of the fire company. The equipment for fighting fires consists +of one fifty-five and two twenty-five gallon chemical engines of the +most approved pattern and one fully equipped hook and ladder truck. The +larger engine is kept in the central part of the village while the two +smaller ones are stationed at East Falls Church and West End +respectively. The officers are Chief Engineer, Dr. J. B. Gould; Fire +Wardens--1st ward, Geo. T. Mankin; 2d ward, Edgar A. Kimball; 3d ward, +D. B. Patterson. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Emma Garner.] + +THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY, an important factor in the growth and +development of the village, was organized about twenty years ago. The +chief object of the society has been the improvement and adornment of +the streets and the fine shade trees which emborder the village +thoroughfares everywhere attest the fidelity of its members to the +object in view. In addition to the work of this character the society +has aided in various other ways in the work of improving the village +besides furnishing social entertainments for its members and friends. +About fifteen hundred dollars have been raised by the society and +disbursed to excellent advantage in securing substantial benefits to the +public weal. + +[Illustration: Mr. E. C. Hough] + +The Village Improvement Society was organized in the fall of 1885, the +first officers being Mr. W. H. Doolittle, President; Rev. D. H. Riddle, +Vice-President; Mr. S. V. Proudfit, Secretary and Mr. A. P. Eastman, +Treasurer. + +This society was modeled after the famous Laurel Hill Society of +Stockbridge, Mass., and from a pamphlet published some years ago setting +forth its object we learn that its funds have been expended on roads, +sidewalks and street lamps, for a survey of the corporation, a piano for +the public school and other improvements at the school, for taking the +census and for Arbor Day expenses--a total expenditure up to that time +of about eight hundred dollars. The greater part of the money raised by +the society is from voluntary dues or the proceeds of lectures or other +entertainments. The funds raised in this manner are generally expended +through the town council or in conjunction with appropriations made by +that body. + +The first observance of Arbor Day in the State was by the Falls Church +Village Improvement Society, when in 1892 this society instituted the +observance of the day by the public school. Since that date the society +has defrayed all Arbor Day expenses. + +[Illustration: Major M. S. Hopkins] + +By an ordinance of the town adopted February 8, 1904, the third Friday +in April of each year is designated as Arbor Day, to be observed under +the auspices of the Village Improvement Society for the planting of such +trees, plants or shrubs as it may desire. + +The officers of the Village Improvement Society for the present year are +as follows: + +President, M. E. Church; Vice-President, Franklin Noble, D. D.; +Secretary, Miss Belle Merrifield; Treasurer, George W. Hawxhurst; +Assistant Secretary, Dr. George B. Fadeley. + +The meetings are held on the first Monday of each month, except July and +August, at the homes of the different members. + +On these occasions after the adjournment of the business meeting, a +literary and musical programme is provided by the hostess of the +evening. Aside from the matter of business, the social part of these +gatherings is a distinct feature of the society, which serves to keep +alive the interest of its members, bringing together congenial friends +and giving "new-comers" an opportunity to become acquainted with their +neighbors. + +[Illustration: Mr. S. H. Thornburg] + +PIONEER BUSINESS MEN. Among the most prominent business men of Falls +Church who located here about the time the place was incorporated as a +town, or soon thereafter, may be mentioned Mr. M. E. Church. Mr. Church +is a native of Vermont, and upon settling here engaged in the drug +business; he now conducts a successful real estate, loan and insurance +business. He is also connected with other important commercial +interests, and has been an indefatigable worker in promoting the welfare +of the village. + +Mr. George W. Mankin, a native of this State, was one of the early +settlers in the village. He conducted a general merchandise business for +a long period of years, but at present is engaged in the drug business +with his son Mr. Geo. T. Mankin, under the firm name of George T. Mankin +& Co. Mr. Mankin has established as high reputation as a business man +and citizen as had his brother Mr. Charles Mankin, the well known dry +goods merchant, but recently deceased. + +[Illustration: Mr. Nathan Banks] + +Mr. Wm. M. Ellison, whose father was one of the early northern settlers +in this community, is a successful lawyer and real estate broker. Mr. +Ellison stands high as a business man and citizen, having served his +town as a councilman for many years past and as mayor of the town for +several terms. He was recently re-elected councilman from the West End +ward. + +Among other prominent merchants who early settled here are Mr. J. W. +Brown, dealer in hardware and general merchandise, and Mr. George +Gaither, dealer in groceries. + +Mr. Isaac Crossman, who came here from Pennsylvania soon after the civil +war, purchased for farming purposes a large block of land which is now +situated almost in the center of the village. The price paid was about +forty dollars per acre. A large part of this land has been divided into +town lots and sold. To indicate the increase in real estate values since +the war, the land of this Crossman property lying nearest the northern +boundary of the village sells for one thousand dollars and upward per +acre. + +[Illustration: James A. Dickinson, M. D.] + +FEW OLD HOUSES. Practically all the houses of the village are modern, +but there are a few old buildings of historic interest. Among these is +the Lawton house, at one time the residence of General Lawton. This +house was the headquarters of General Longstreet when the place was in +possession of the Confederates soon after the first battle of Manassas. +What was once known as the Star Tavern, now a grocery store, is a relic +of by-gone days. It flourished in the days before the railroad came, and +was a favorite stopping place for travelers over the road from the +mountains leading past its doors to the then important mart, Alexandria. +The place was kept during the civil war by W. H. Erwin, father of our +townsmen Messrs. Walter, George and Munson Erwin. + +The old big chimney house situated in the field opposite the Odd +Fellows' Hall was built in Revolutionary times and is probably the +oldest dwelling in this vicinity. It is owned by the venerable John +Lynch, who was the sexton of the Episcopal Church for so many years +before and after the civil war. Mr. Lynch is now a resident of Maryland. + +[Illustration: Dr. Geo. B. Fadeley] + +THE COLORED SETTLEMENT. The colored people have a settlement a short +distance south of the town limits, consisting of probably a hundred +cottages with a population of between four and five hundred. They have +a school building and three churches and many of the little cottages and +surroundings indicate industry and thrift in the occupants. + +HOTELS. The Falls Church Inn, where an old Virginia welcome awaits the +way-farer, accommodates transient and regular boarders. Besides there is +the "Evergreens," a large summer boarding place which has a high +reputation. There are numerous other homes, in or near the village, +where boarders are taken for the summer months. + +NEWSPAPER. Falls Church has one newspaper published weekly, called "The +Falls Church Monitor." This paper was first established by Mr. E. F. +Rorebeck, under the name of "The Falls Church News." Mr. M. E. Church is +Editor and Mr. R. C. L. Moncure, General Manager. + +[Illustration: Mankin Pharmacy] + +EXCELLENT NATURAL DRAINAGE. Four Mile Run, traversing the northeastern +section of the corporation, separates the main part of the village from +all that portion lying in Alexandria County and known as East Falls +Church. This little stream empties into the Potomac four miles below +Washington, whence its name. Where it breaks through the hills at +Barcroft its water-power is used for milling purposes, as in the days +when General Washington's flour mills were situated at or near the same +point. The southern section of the village is drained by Holmes' Run, +which empties into the Potomac just south of Alexandria. The two rapid +little streams named take their rise a short distance to the west of the +village and afford ample drainage for all the territory embraced within +the corporation boundaries. + +RAILWAY DEPOTS AND POST-OFFICES. Indicating the wide extent of territory +covered by Falls Church, it possesses two railway depots and three +independent post-offices. The Southern Railway's East Falls Church and +West End stations are one mile apart. The electric railway also has +stations and ticket offices near those of the steam road. The Falls +Church post office is on Broad street in the center of the village. East +Falls Church post office is located at the electric railway station and +West End post office at the West End steam railway station, the former +being one-half mile and the latter about one mile distant from the main +office. + +[Illustration: Mr. Charles Crossman] + +STREET LIGHTS. The village streets are now lighted by kerosene lamps, +but a movement is already on foot looking toward a better system of +street lighting and it is probable that an electric light plant will be +installed for that purpose within the near future. + +A BANK IS NEEDED. The organization of a bank is being considered by a +number of enterprising citizens. There is already a sufficient amount of +banking business transacted by the residents of the village, which is +now divided among the banks located at Leesburg, Fairfax, Alexandria and +Washington, to make such an institution a paying investment from the +start. + +THE PARK. Crossman Park, the densely wooded hill over which the electric +road runs from East End to West End, is an attractive spot to nature +lovers. Hundreds of old chestnut trees make it a favorite resort for +picnic parties in summer and nut-hunters in the fall. It is altogether a +charming piece of woodland without undergrowth, and needs no gravelled +walks or other evidences of the hand of man to add to its present +charm. + +[Illustration: Dr. J. B. Hodgkin] + +Near the park may be seen the stone which marks what was at one time the +western corner of the District of Columbia. It is situated on the land +of Mr. S. B. Shaw and is only a few yards from his residence. On the +west corner is chiseled "Virginia 1791," while on the opposite corner +the words "Jurisdiction of the United States" are still quite legible. + +FALLS CHURCH TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. The Falls Church Telephone and +Telegraph Company, of which Mr. M. E. Church is President and General +Manager, is connected with the lines of the Chesapeake and Potomac +Telephone Company of Washington and with the lines of the Southern Bell +Telephone and Telegraph Company. + +The stations on this line include Alexandria, Arlington, Ash Grove, +Bailey's Cross Roads, Ballston, Barcroft, Belaire, Bluemont, +Chesterbrook, Clarendon, Chain Bridge, Colvin Run, Dunn Loring, +Dranesville, East Falls Church, Fairfax, Fort Myer Heights, Glencarlyn, +Hall's Hill, Herndon, Hamilton, Kenmore, Lewinsville, Langley, Leesburg, +Merrifield, Oakton, Paeonian Springs, Purcellville, Round Hill, +Rosslyn, Vienna, Wiehle, and West Falls Church. All stations are +equipped with Long-Distance Metallic Circuit Telephones. + +[Illustration: Mr. D. O. Munson] + +In addition to the telephone line Falls Church has two Western Union +Telegraph offices besides two express offices. + +CAMP ALGER. Falls Church has gained a national reputation within recent +years by reason of the establishment near the village of the camp for +volunteer soldiers at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. This +camp was one of several of the kind established in the Southern States +for the purpose of organizing an army for the invasion of Spanish +territory. + +The farm of Mr. C. L. Campbell, about one and a half miles southwest of +the village was selected by the War Department for the army corps to be +assembled nearest Washington, and as soon as the contract was signed for +the lease of the property, troops from fourteen States were hurried here +as fast as recruited. + +[Illustration: Mr. Henry Crocker Mr. E. F. Crocker] + +The first troops on the ground were the District of Columbia Volunteers. +They were followed by those from Pennsylvania, and later came troops +from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, +Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee and +Virginia, all forming the Second Army Corps of the Spanish-American War. + +The Second Army Corps was made up of the troops assembled at Falls +Church, to which Major General William M. Graham, U. S. V., was assigned +by orders of May 16, 1898. General Graham assumed command May 23, 1898, +announcing the official designation of the camp as "Camp Russell A. +Alger." + +[Illustration: Mr. G. W. Mankin] + +The strength of this army corps before the last of May consisted of 922 +officers and 17,467 men. In June the number in camp was 1,103 officers +and 26,002 men; in July the strength of the corps was 1,183 officers and +29,747 men. In August the corps consisted of 1,347 officers and 33,755 +men, the highest number in this corps before disbandment at the end of +the war. + +By orders of May 24, the troops then on duty at this point were +organized into a First Division composed of three brigades of three +regiments each, and by orders of June 9, 1898, the Ninth Massachusetts +Volunteer Infantry and 33rd and 34th Michigan Volunteer Infantry were +constituted a separate brigade. + +On June 9th the separate brigade mentioned was assigned as the First +Brigade, 3rd Division. On August 2, 1898, a second brigade was organized +composed of the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and the Third +Virginia Volunteer Infantry. + +The First Brigade, consisting of the Massachusetts and Michigan troops, +left Camp Alger for Santiago de Cuba on June 22 and 24, 1898. Troops of +the Second Brigade were returned to their States for muster out on +September 7 and 8, 1898. + +The tents of the provost guard pitched at the electric railway terminus +at East End with pickets posted at various street corners made Falls +Church appear like a town under martial law. Under all the circumstances +the conduct of the troops was admirable. The homes of the citizens were +thrown open to the soldiers doing picket duty in the village, and the +ladies of the place vied with each other in contributing to the comfort +of sick soldiers at the camp. + +[Illustration: Mr. C. H. Buxton] + +The summer of 1898 was a most eventful one in Falls Church. No such +stirring scenes had been witnessed here since the days of the civil war. +Troop trains arriving or departing, drills at camp and practice marches +through the town, martial music from many bands, reveille and taps, all +contributed to impress the town folk with the fact that the country was +at war. + +FINANCES OF THE TOWN. The expenses of the town government for the year +ending August 31, 1904, was $2,188.47. The assessed valuation of the +town is $420,125, which is about 50 per cent of the real value. The tax +levy for all purposes is six mills. The levy is divided as follows: For +corporation purposes three mills; for school purposes three mills. The +total receipts for fiscal year 1904 were $2,289.20. + +There is no bonded indebtedness. A number of times propositions to bond +the town for school or street purposes have been voted upon but each +time the citizens have decided against incurring any bonded debt. + +[Illustration: Mr. Summerfield Taylor] + +The following are the officers of the town government: + +OFFICERS OF THE TOWN. George N. Lester, Mayor; Henry Crocker, Clerk; +John N. Gibson, Sergeant; R. C. L. Moncure, Corporation Attorney. +Members of Council: 1st ward, Elmer I. Crump, S. E. Thompson, G. A. +Brunner; 2nd ward, E. A. Kimball, Geo. N. Lester, Geo. W. Hawxhurst; 3rd +ward, Thomas Hillier; Wm. M. Ellison, H. C. Birge. Committees, Street +Lamp Lighting: E. A. Kimball, Thos. Hillier, S. E. Thompson. Finance: +Wm. M. Ellison, Chairman, H. C. Birge, Geo. W. Hawxhurst. Board of +School Trustees: J. W. Brown, Chairman, R. J. Yates, Clerk, J. S. Riley. + +HEALTH. In the matter of health Falls Church leads. Statistics obtained +by the U. S. Census Bureau relating to the mortality rate show that out +of 341 towns and cities from which returns were received the lowest +death rate for the year ending May 31, 1900, was in St. Joseph, Mo., +with 9.1 for each 1,000 inhabitants, followed by Portland, Oregon, 9.5, +St. Paul, Minn., 9.7, and Minneapolis, Minn., 10.08. For the same period +there were only 5 deaths in Falls Church, its population then being +1,007. The average annual death rate in Falls Church is about 9.5 per +1,000, only 57 deaths having occurred here between August 17, 1898 and +September 2, 1904, a period of a little over six years. + +[Illustration: Mr. A. P. Eastman] + +The death rate in the United States for 1900, according to census +returns was 17.8 per 1,000, the rate in cities where such statistics +were gathered being 18.6, and in rural districts 15.4. + + + +For the purpose of comparison the death rate per 1,000 in the following +cities as reported by the U. S. Census Bureau for 1900 will be of +interest. Baltimore, Md., 21.0; New York, N. Y., 21.3; Washington, D. +C., 22.8; Alexandria, Va., 24.2; Norfolk, Va., 25.2; Lynchburg, Va., +27.7; Richmond, Va., 29.7; Petersburg, Va., 31.1. + +IDEAL COUNTRY HOMES. To the generosity of a nearby nurseryman the town +is indebted for its wealth of trees. When the first streets were laid +out Mr. D. O. Munson donated liberally from his nursery stock and to him +is chiefly due the credit for the present attractive appearance of the +tree-lined streets. + +The conventional arrangement of the average suburban town has not been +followed in laying out the streets of this village, and even the sinuous +main avenue, lined on either side by a row of full grown maples, adds to +its charm. Beyond the town to the westward the view of rolling plain +and delightful wooded expanse greets the eye, and in the distance the +smoky Sugar Loaf looms up to beckon one to mountain scenes. In an +afternoon drive from the village to the south or west the lover of +nature may find pleasure at every turn. + +The healthfulness of Falls Church is proverbial, while its charming +situation, accessibility to the city of Washington and the homelike tone +pervading every part of its area have surprised and attracted all whose +privilege it has been to visit here for the first time. The place to the +tired city man can afford all the enjoyment of retirement and +tranquillity. With an abundance of green lawns, well shaded walks and +drives, pure water, churches, good schools and the necessary stores; +what more could the seeker desire to complete his ideal of a country +home. + +[Illustration: Mr. Geo. F. Rollins] + +Possessing advantages imperfectly pictured herein, Falls Church welcomes +the jaded fathers and mothers from the city to the place where children +may enjoy life with nature, where the climate, conducive to refreshing +sleep, soothes tired nerves and makes life to such again buoyant with +youthful hopes and joys. + +[Illustration: The Old Colonial Church.] + +The original church at the Falls is said to have been built in 1709. +This is only tradition, as no satisfactory evidence has been obtained +relating to its exact location or the date when first erected. + +Court records establish the fact that there was a church on the present +site of the Falls Church in 1746. On March 20th of that year John +Trammell, in consideration of the sum of fifty shillings sterling, +transferred, by deed of bargain and sale, to the Vestry of Truro Parish +in Fairfax County a certain parcel of land containing two acres "where +the Upper Church now is." John Trammell owned at that time the greater +part of the land upon which the town of Falls Church is now situated. In +June, 1745, he leased to Walter English his plantation of 244 acres +"near the head of the north of Holmes' Run extending to Four Mile Run, +excepting two acres for the use of the church." + +[Illustration: Mrs. C. E. Mankin's Store] + +The vestry book of Truro Parish commences about 1732. This book is in +the possession of Mr. H. H. Dodge, of Mt. Vernon, a vestryman of old +Pohick Church. Through the courtesy of Mr. Dodge, the Editor was +permitted to make a careful examination of its pages, and to copy from +the minutes of the vestry meetings therein such entries as appeared to +throw any light upon the early history of the Falls Church. + +Some apparently trivial entries have been copied, such as the payment of +a sexton's salary for a number of successive years, but the name of the +sexton in such cases has an important bearing upon the subject, when it +is not improbable that the churches indicated as the "Upper Church," the +"New Church," etc., may be the church later designated as "The Falls +Church." + +[Illustration: Mr. Charles A. Stewart] + +In addition to religious matters, the duties of the church vestry in +these early times embraced many secular affairs. Under the direction of +the Parish Vestry tithes were collected from the land owners, and +"processioners" were appointed by them to survey and establish all land +boundaries within the parish. Such matters as related to the relief of +the poor, the medical care of the sick, charges for burial of the dead, +the maintenance of the blind, the lame, and the maimed, also of +foundlings and vagrants, now looked after by the county government, were +then a part of the duty of the vestry of each parish. + +By a general law passed in the Colony in 1667, Act IV, 19th Charles II, +the right was vested in the county courts, when expedient, to set aside +and appropriate not more than two acres of land for church and burial +purposes; ministers' salaries had been fixed the year before at 16,000 +pounds of tobacco, or about $650. + +As early as October, 1734, John Trammell was paid by the Vestry of Truro +Parish 320 pounds of tobacco for grubbing a place for a new church, for +which Robert Blackburn had drawn plans. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Charles A. Mankin] + +In November of the following year, Thomas or James Bennitt was paid 150 +pounds of tobacco as sexton of the New Church. Record of the payment of +400 pounds of tobacco to James Bennitt, Sexton of the New Church, +appears under date of October 6, 1740, and again May 21, 1745. On the +latter date the Vestry decided to build a church "at or near the spring +nigh Mr. Hutchinson's on the mountain road ... with doors, windows & +seats after the manner of the Upper Church." The deed from Andrew +Hutchinson to the Vestry of Truro Parish for two acres of land upon +which this new church was to be erected, recorded in Liber A. No. 1, +page 464, Fairfax County Land Records, does not show this land to have +been in the vicinity of Falls Church. + +On October 12, 1747, the vestry records indicate that Mary Bennitt was +sexton of the Upper Church, supposed to be the same which was called the +New Church before this date, and that Wm. Grove was sexton of the more +recently built church on the mountain road near Mr. Hutchinson's. Mary +Bennitt's salary as sexton of the Upper Church was 400 pounds of tobacco +until 1749, when it was increased to 460 pounds. Her salary was again +raised to 560 pounds in 1752, and so continued until 1755, when James +Palmer became sexton at "Falls Church," so designated in the records. +James Palmer appears to have been succeeded by Gerard Trammell, the +Vestry at a meeting held November 12, 1759, having allowed the latter +560 pounds of tobacco as sexton of Falls Church. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Annie Eells] + +In February, 1749, the Vestry decided to build an addition to the "Upper +Church," and the contract for the improvement was given to Charles +Broadwater, Gent., who undertakes to complete the work by the laying of +the next parish levy for the sum of 12,000 pounds of tobacco. Mr. +Charles Broadwater was at that time one of the vestrymen, and among +those present at the meeting were George Mason and the Rev. Charles +Green. The vestry meeting held October 25, 1762, elected George +Washington a Vestryman in place of Wm. Peake, Gent., deceased, and at +the same meeting it was ordered that the sexton at Falls Church be +allowed 560 pounds of tobacco for his services. + +The Vestry of Truro Parish met on March 28, 1763, at the Falls Church. +Those present were: Henry Gunnell, Wm. Payne, Jr., Church Wardens; John +West, Wm. Payne, Charles Broadwater, Thomas Wren, Abraham Barnes, Daniel +McCarty, Robert Boggers and George Washington. + +[Illustration: "Eastover" Mr. Pickering Dodge] + +It appears that this meeting was called for the purpose of deciding +whether to repair the old church, then greatly in decay, or to erect a +new building. It would seem that the matter of abandonment of the site +of the old church was also to be acted upon, and the erection of a new +one in a more convenient place. + +The Vestry decided that the old church was too dilapidated to repair, +and resolved that a new church be built at the same place. It was +ordered that the Clerk of the Vestry advertise in the Virginia and +Maryland Gazettes for workmen to meet at the church on the 29th of +August next following, to undertake the building of a brick church, to +contain 1,600 feet on the floor, with a suitable gallery. The record of +the vestry meeting of October 3, 1763, shows that 30,000 pounds of +tobacco had been levied toward building Falls Church, and was to be sold +by the Church Wardens for the best cash price obtainable. George +Washington was not present at this meeting; but as an evidence of his +interest in the contemplated improvements he copied in his diary under +date of 1764 the advertisement published in the Maryland Gazette for +"undertakers to build Falls Church." + +[Illustration: Mr. W. A. Ball] + +The accounts of the Clerk of the Vestry at this date show Truro Parish +credited with 1,807 tithables at 37 pounds of tobacco each, or a total +of 66,859 pounds. The expenditures debited against this amount include +17,280 pounds of tobacco for salary of minister, 560 pounds each to the +sexton at Pohick Church and Falls Church, 500 pounds to the sexton at +Alexandria, 3,000 pounds to Clerk of Vestry, besides sundry payments +toward the support of the indigent of the parish. + +The record of the vestry meeting for Truro Parish April 26, 1765, states +that Truro Parish has been divided from Colonel Washington's mill to +John Monroe's and thence to Difficult Run, the upper parish being called +Fairfax. The Parish of Fairfax in which was situated Falls Church or the +"Upper Church" and Alexandria or the "Lower Church" was created February +1, 1765, by virtue of an Act passed the previous year, being the 4th +George III. Falls Church was evidently the Parish Church, and Alexandria +"The Chapel of Ease" as indicated by the comparative emoluments of the +office of sexton. + +[Illustration: Mr. T. B. Snoddy] + +Earnest efforts have been made to locate the Vestry Book of Fairfax +Parish containing information relating to Falls Church after the +division of Truro Parish in 1765. This book was in charge of the rector +of Christ Church, Alexandria, at the outbreak of the civil war and is +supposed to have been lost or destroyed. + +A few facts relating to Falls Church have been gathered from an address +delivered by the rector of Christ Church in 1873 upon the occasion of +the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the latter church. + +The Vestry elected for Fairfax Parish March 28, 1765, consisted of the +following: John West, Charles Alexander, William Payne, John Dalton, +George Washington, Charles Broadwater, George Johnston, Townsend Dade, +Richard Sanford, William Adams, John Posey, Daniel French. + +Rev. Townsend Dade, ordained by the Bishop of London in 1765, was the +first minister of Christ Church, and it is presumed that as minister of +the Parish he also officiated at the Falls Church. His salary was 17,280 +pounds of tobacco, and 2,500 pounds were added to this for the +deficiency of a glebe. He served as minister until 1778. + +[Illustration: Dr. T. M. Talbott] + +In November, 1766, the Vestry ordered a levy to be made upon the +inhabitants of the parish of 31,185 pounds of tobacco, for the purpose +of building two new churches of brick; one at the Falls, the other at +Alexandria. + +The new brick church which the Vestry decided to erect in place of the +old wooden structure was built, according to reliable information, by +Mr. James Wren, for about 600 pounds sterling. Bishop Meade states in +his book on old churches of Virginia, that a most particular contract +was made for him as also for James Parsons, the contractor for the +Alexandria church. + +The mortar was to be two-thirds lime and one-third sand; the shingles +were to be of the best cypress or juniper and three-quarters of an inch +thick. The contract for building Falls Church called for a gallery, but +this was never put in. + +The Alexandria church was begun in 1767 by James Parsons, 600 pounds +sterling being the contract price. Parsons failed to complete his +contract and the building was finished for an additional sum of 220 +pounds sterling by Col. John Carlyle, and formally delivered February +27, 1773. + +[Illustration: Mr. C. L. Blanton] + +In 1770 a tract of about 500 acres was purchased from Daniel Jennings at +15 shillings per acre, and upon this in 1773 the Fairfax Vestry caused +to be erected a glebe house, or rectory, with a dairy, meat house, barn, +stable and corn house for 653 pounds sterling. + +During the Revolutionary War, Falls Church is said to have been the +recruiting headquarters of Col. Charles Broadwater, one of Fairfax's +first patriots. + +In 1775 there were in Virginia 95 parishes, 164 churches and chapels, +and 91 clergymen. At the conclusion of the war for Independence only 72 +parishes remained, and 34 of these had been deprived of ministerial +help. Churches and chapels had gone to ruin; soldiers having turned them +into barracks or stables. + +In 1778 the Rev. Mr. Dade was succeeded as Parish minister by the Rev. +Mr. West, who served for a few months, and he in turn was succeeded by +Rev. David Griffith who it is recorded exercised his ministry with +fidelity in his Parish, preaching both at Alexandria and at Falls Church +from 1780 to 1789. He had been chaplain in the 3rd Virginia Regiment +during the revolution and was to the time of his death, in 1789, a close +personal friend of Washington. + +[Illustration: Mr. Geo. W. Hawxhurst] + +From 1790 to 1792 Rev. Bryan Fairfax directed the affairs of Fairfax +Parish, selecting for his assistant Rev. Bernard Page. Before the +revolution, being an ardent royalist, he endeavored to dissuade from the +war with the mother country his friend George Washington whose +confidence and esteem he continued to enjoy to the last. Bryan Fairfax +was the son of William Fairfax of Belvoir. He was ordained to the +ministry in 1786 by Bishop Seabury. His title as Eighth Lord Fairfax was +confirmed to him by the English House of Lords in 1800. + +The civil functions of the Vestry ceased in 1784. Thereafter, in the +struggle following the disestablishment, having to depend upon voluntary +contributions, many churches succumbed. + +It was about this period, or not long after the death of Dr. Griffith in +1789, that Falls Church was abandoned as a place of worship, fell into a +state of dilapidation, and was not used for many years. Chiefly at the +expense of Henry Fairfax, grandson of Rev. Bryan Fairfax, formerly its +rector, the building was repaired and young Mr. Minor, as a lay reader, +organized a congregation of worshippers. + +[Illustration: Mr. W. W. Biggs] + +In 1827 Bishop Meade visited this church and the description of it in +his book "Old Families and Churches of Virginia" will be of interest. + +"The exercises of the Seminary being over, I next directed my steps to +the Falls Church, so called from its vicinity to one of the falls on the +Potomac River. It is about eight miles from Alexandria, and the same +from Georgetown. It is a large oblong building, and like that near Mount +Vernon, has two rows of windows, being doubtless designed for galleries +all around, though none were ever put there. It was deserted as a house +of worship by Episcopalians about forty years ago. About that period, +for the first, and it is believed for the last time, it was visited by +Bishop Madison. Since then it has been used by any who were disposed to +occupy it as a place of worship, and the doors and windows being open, +itself standing on the common highway, it has been entered at pleasure +by travellers on the road and animals of every kind. Some years since, +the attention of the professors of our Seminary, and of some of the +students was drawn towards it, and occasional services performed there. +This led to its partial repair." + +[Illustration: Mr. C. C. Walters] + +Bishop Meade in this account of his visit to the old church states that +he visited the same day an interesting school for young ladies at Capt. +Henry Fairfax's where he delivered an address to the students. This +school was located near Fairfax Court House. Mrs. Chichester, widow of +the late Major John H. Chichester and a communicant at the present time +of Falls Church, was a pupil of this seminary before the death of Capt. +Fairfax, and recalls the incidents connected with his death in the +Mexican War and his burial near the old church door 57 years ago. + +From the time Bishop Meade preached in the old church in 1827 to the +beginning of the war of 1861 much that might be of interest is lost with +the records of the Parish. + +The damage to the church by soldiers during the civil war was later +repaired at the expense of the United States Government at a cost of +about $1,300. None of its ancient furniture has been preserved, the gray +stone urn-shaped baptismal font alone remaining. + +[Illustration: Mr. J. W. Garner] + +The rectors of Falls Church since the civil war have been Bishop Horatio +Southgate, Rev. John McGill, Rev. Frank Page, Rev. J. Cleveland Hall, +Rev. R. A. Castleman, Rev. Dr. John McGill again, and the present rector +Rev. George S. Somerville. + +The present vestry book begins November 27, 1873. The vestrymen for the +year 1904 are S. D. Tripp, S. W.; J. T. Unverzagt, J. W.; C. A. +Marshall, Wm. E. Parker, A. H. Barbor, E. A. Ballard. + +In connection with the name, it may be of interest to state that, +previous to the Revolution, there being no bishop in Virginia, church +buildings were not consecrated, generally being called after the parish +in which situated, or from some other geographical name; hence the New +Church, the Upper Church, the Falls Church. The simple name suggesting +only its location as first bestowed upon the church near the Falls has +now, after the lapse of years, become irrevocably fixed. Around it +cluster so many memories of the early days that the name "Falls Church" +must continue unchanged to the last. + +[Illustration: Town Sergeant John N. Gibson] + + +Extracts from Records of Vestry Meetings. + + June 10, 1733: + + Capt. Francis Aubrey, towards building the chapel above Goose + Creek, 2,500 pounds of tobacco. + + October 13, 1734: + + To Mr. Robt. Blackburn, for his plans for building church, 16,750 + pounds of tobacco. + + To John Trammell, for grubbing a place for the church, 320 pounds + of tobacco. + + To Jos. Johnson, to read at the chapels, 1,300 pounds of tobacco. + + November 18, 1735: + + Jos. Johnson, Clk. of the New Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + + Thos. (?) Bennitt, sexton at the New Church, 150 pounds of tobacco. + + Oliver Roe, sexton Pohick Church, 300 pounds of tobacco. + + August 19, 1736: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish this 19th day of August, 1736; + present Jeremiah Bronaugh, Ch. Warden; Denis McCarty, Augustine + Washington, Robt. Osborn, John Thurman, Wm. Godfrey, Jas. Baxter, + and Thos. Lewis, Vestrymen. + +[Illustration: Mr J. C. Elliott's Store] + + Mr. Cha. Green being recommended to this vestry by Capt. Augustine + Washington as a person qualified to officiate as a minister in this + parish, as soon as he shall receive orders from His Grace, the + Bishop of London, to qualify himself for the same, it is, + therefore, + + Ordered by this Vestry that as soon as the said Green has qualified + himself as aforesaid he be received and entertained as Minister of + the said parish, and the said Vestry do humbly recommend said Cha. + Green to the Right Honorable Thos. Lord Fairfax, for his letters of + recommendation and presentation to his Grace, the said Lord Bishop + of London, to qualify himself as aforesaid. + + August 8,----: + + At a vestry held for Truro Parish the 8th of August, for appointing + processioners. + + Ordered, That John Trammell and John Harle procession all the + patented lands between Difficult Run and Broad Run, and that they + perform the same sometime in the month of October or November, + next, and report their proceedings according to law. + + Ordered, That Anthony Hampton and Wm. Moore procession all the + patented lands between Broad Run and the South Side of Goose Creek, + as far as the fork of Little River, and that they perform the same + sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report + their proceedings according to law. + +[Illustration: Miss Ada Rhodes] + + October 6, 1740: + + Nicholas Carroll, sexton Pohick Church, 400 pounds of tobacco. + + Jas. Bennitt, sexton at the New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco. + + John Aubrey, sexton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco. + + May 21, 1745: + + At a vestry held for Truro Parish, May 21, 1745, present Rev. Mr. + Cha. Green, minister, and church wardens and vestrymen. + + Ordered, that a church be built at or near the spring nigh Mr. + Hutchinson's on the mountain road, of the following dimensions: 40 + feet long, 32 feet wide and 13 feet pitch. To be weather boarded + with 3/4-inch feather-edge plank, quartered and beaded; shingled + with 18-inch pine shingles; sawed frame, and frame work ceiled with + quartered plank, beaded, and floored with 1-1/4-inch plank, with + proper cornice under the eaves, with pulpit, desk, communion table, + etc. With doors, windows & seats, after the manner of the Upper + Church, and all the proper facings and mouldings; and window + shutters, to be shingled with single tiers, weather boarded with + eights, and filled with tens or brads; locks and hinges that are + necessary for the same. + + Ordered, That the Clerk of the Vestry prepare deeds for Mr. Andrew + Hutchinson conveying two acres of land to this Parish for house of + the Church to be built thereon, and church yard. + + Hugh Thomas undertakes to complete the aforesaid church and to + enclose it by the last day of October, next, and to finish and + complete it by the last day of October, then next following, for + 24,500 pounds of tobacco, to be paid him at two payments, and the + clerk of the vestry is ordered to prepare articles of agreement and + bond for the performance of the same. + + CHA. GREEN, } + JOHN WEST, } Ch. Wardens. + + Teste: { Wm. Henry Terrett, + { Clk. Vestry. + + October 12, 1747: + Philip Howell, sexton, Pohick, 400 pounds of tobacco. + Mary Bennitt, sexton, Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco. + Mary McDowell, sexton, Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco. + Wm. Grove, sexton, New Church, 172 pounds of tobacco. + + [Illustration: Mr. W. W. Kinsley] + + October 10, 1748: + Bennitt, clk., 1,200 pounds of tobacco. + Wm. Chautneys, clk. at the New Church, 1,200 pounds of tobacco. + Mary Bennitt, sexton at Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco. + Alexander, sexton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco. + Wm. Grove, sexton at New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco. + + October 10, 1749: + Truro Parish divided.--Upper Parish called Cameron. + John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + Mary Bennitt, sexton, Upper Church, 460 pounds of tobacco. + +[Illustration: Mr. H. A. Fellows] + + February 19, 1749-50: + + Present: Rev. Mr. Cha. Green, Minister, Mr. Hugh West, Mr. Geo. + Mason, Mr. Jas. Hamilton, Mr. Cha. Broadwater, Mr. Danl. McCarty, + Wm. Payne, Abra. Barnes, Thos. Wren, Robt. Boggers, and John + Turley; + + Ordered: That an addition be built to the Upper Church according to + the plan produced to the Vestry; and Cha. Broadwater, gent., + undertakes to do the same and finish and complete it by the laying + of the next parish levy, for the sum of 12,000 pounds of tobacco, + which is then to be levied for him. + + October 9, 1749: + + John Wiber Danty, clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + + Mary Bennitt, sexton, ditto, 460 pounds of tobacco. + + Jacob Remy, for paling in the New Church, making horse blocks and + tarring church, etc., our proportionable part, 1,950 pounds of + tobacco. + + Ordered: That the Vestry do meet the third Monday in February next, + at the Glebe house, in order to see what repairs are wanted to it + and the New Church, and the Church Wardens are ordered to give + notice to workmen to appear there to undertake the work and also to + repair the Pohick Church and the Vestry House. + + October 8, 1750: + + John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + + Mary Bennitt, sexton Upper Church, 460 pounds of tobacco. + +[Illustration: Residence of Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield] + + October 14, 1751: + + John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church for 7 months attendance, 581 + pounds of tobacco. + + Mary Bennitt, sexton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + October 2, 1752: + + John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + + Mary Bennitt, sexton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + Ordered: That the clerk of the Upper Church read prayers every + intervening Sunday, and that he be allowed 1,200 pounds of tobacco + per annum for his salary. + + Mr. Cha. Broadwater and Mr. Abraham Barnes are appointed Church + Wardens for this parish for the ensuing year. + + October 22, 1753: + + Mary Bennitt, sexton at the Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + John Wiber Danty, clerk at the Upper Church, 1,100 pounds of + tobacco. + + November 22, 1754: + + Wm. Donaldson, Clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. + + Mary Bennitt, sexton at the Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + September 17, 1755: + + Ordered: That the several tracts of land that have their + beginnings between Hunting Creek and the Potomac, the road that + leads from Aubrey's Ferry to the Upper Church, and the road that + leads from Cameron to the Upper Church, be processioned sometime in + the month of December, next, and that John Dalton, Thos. Harrison, + John Hunter and Nathan'l Smith attend to see the same performed, + and that they take an account of their proceedings therein and + return the same to the next Vestry after the same shall be + performed. + + [Illustration: Cottage of Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield] + + November 27, 1755: + + Wm. Donaldson, Clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. James + Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + November 29, 1756: + + Mr. Lumley, Clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. James + Palmer, sexton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + November 28, 1757: + + Jas. Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + November 27, 1758: + + Jas. Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + + November 12, 1759: + + Thos. Lewis, Clk. at Falls Church, 1,050 pounds of tobacco. Gerard + Trammell, sexton, at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco. + +[Illustration: Mr. Frank M. Thompson] + + October 25, 1762: + + Ordered that Geo. Washington, Esq., be chosen and appointed one of + the Vestrymen of this parish in the room of Wm. Peake, gent., + deceased. + + Ordered that the sexton at Falls Church be allowed 560 pounds of + tobacco. + + October 3, 1763: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish, October 3, 1763, present: Rev. + Mr. Green, minister; Wm. Payne, jun'r., and Henry Gunnell, Ch. + Wardens; Geo. Wm. Fairfax, Thos. Wren, Wm. Payne, Abra. Barnes, + Cha. Broadwater, John West, and Geo. Mason, Vestrymen. + +[Illustration: Mr. Thomas Hillier] + + TRURO PARISH. + + DR., Lbs. + Tobacco. + To Revd. Mr. Green, minister 17,280 + Sexton at Pohick Church (Eliz Parce) 560 + Sexton at Falls Church (Gerard Trammell) 560 + Sexton at Alexandria (John Rhoads) 500 + John Barry, Clk. 3,000 + John West, Junr. Clk. Vestry 500 + John West, Junr. Amt. for providing-Elem'ts etc. 1,200 + Matthew Bradley, for support of his son 1,000 + Jos. Wilson, towards support of himself and wife 500 + Robt. Mills, towards his support 630 + Elizabeth Palmer, for support of her idiot son, + (to be laid up for her use by Church Wrdns.) 1,000 + John Posey, for 11 parish levies overchd. last year 242 + Edwd. Bates, for his levies the two last years, (Tho' a Patroller) 48 + Gerard Trammell, constable, one levy overchd. last year 22 + Philip Trammell, patroller, one levy overchd. last year 22 + Saml. Russell, towards his support until October, 1764 1,000 + Eliza. Young, for boarding Charlotte Lindsay 2 mo. 1 £. 10 s. + Saml. Conner, for assistance to Saml. Russell 500 + Hugh West, Deputy Atty. on acct. 913 + Grafton Kirk, on acct. 600 + Peter Waggner, Clk. Cur. on acct. 837 + Tobacco levied towards building Falls Church, + to be sold for cash by the Church Wardens + for the best price they can get 30,000 + £ s d. + + Dr. Jas. Lawrie for Mason and Jane Evans 4 7 6 + " " " " Eleanor Swallow 700 5 7 6 + " " " " Sparrow 0 7 5 + John Muir, on acct 3 17 4-1/2 + _____________________ + 61,614 15 9 10-1/2 + To Acct. of Collection of 61,614 lbs. tobc. 3,696 + ______ + Total 65,310 + To the fraction in collectors' hands 1,549 + ______ + 66,859 + ______ + Truro Parish Cr. by 1807 tithables at 37 lbs. + tobc. on acct. poll 66,859 + ______ + +[Illustration: Mr. J. S. Riley] + + Ordered: That the Clerk of the Vestry proportion the parish levy + when he shall receive the list of tithables. + + Ordered: That Geo. Wm. Fairfax, & Geo. Washington, Esqs., be + appointed Church Wardens for the ensuing year. + + Ordered: That the Vestry meet at Alexandria on the third Tuesday + in March, next, in order to agree with workmen to undertake the + building a church at or near the old Falls Church, and that the + Church Wardens advertise the same in the Virginia and Maryland + Gazettes, to be continued six weeks, and that it will be then + expected of each workman to produce a plan and estimate of the + expense. + + + CHA. GREEN, } + G. W. FAIRFAX. }C. W. + + Truly Recorded: + Teste--John West, junr., + Cl. Vestry. + + +[Illustration: Mr. O. H. Billingsley] + + March 28, 1763: + + At a Vestry of Truro Parish held at the Falls Church March 28, + 1763; present: Henry Gunnell, Wm. Payne, jr., Ch. Wardens; John + West, Wm. Payne, Chas. Broadwater, Thos. Wren, Abra. Barnes, Dan'l + McCarty, Robt. Boggers, and Geo. Washington; who being there met to + examine into the state of the said church, greatly in decay and + want of repair, and likewise whether the same shall be repaired or + a new one built, and whether at the same place or removed to a more + convenient one, and likewise to view the addition built by Mr. + Chas. Broadwater, and what he hath been deficient in the work. + + Resolved: It is the opinion of this Vestry that the Old Church is + rotten and unfit for repair, but that a new church be built at the + same place. + + [Illustration: Mr. A. O. Von Herbulis] + + Resolved: That Jas. Wren and Owen Williams do view the work to be + done by Mr. Broadwater on the new addition, that is, the price of + glazing three windows, plaistering the said house, together with + the materials necessary for the same, and make report to the next + Vestry. + + Ordered: That the Clerk of the Vestry advertise in the Virginia and + Maryland Gazettes for workmen to meet at the church on the 29th day + of August, next, if fair, if not the next fair day, to undertake + the building of a brick church to contain 1,600 feet on the floor, + with a suitable gallery & bring plan of the church and price, + according to the same. + + Ordered: That the Church Wardens employ workmen to repair the + windows of the north side & the east end of the old church & repair + the shutters of the new addition. + + HENRY GUNNELL, + WM. PAYNE. + + (N. B.) This Vestry was held when I was sick and could not + attend--above orders were sent as above, signed by Messrs. Gunnell + and Payne, and I thought fit to record the same, tho in point of + time it should have been before the last one. + + JOHN WEST, junr. + +[Illustration: Mr. Andrew M. Smith] + + April 26, 1765: + + Vestry records of this date state that Truro Parish had been + divided from Col. Washington's mill to John Monroe's and thence to + Difficult Run, the upper parish called Fairfax. + + February 3, 1766: + + In the record of a Vestry meeting held for Truro Parish at Wm. + Gardner's the 3rd and 4th of February, 1766, is the following: It + appearing from an order of the Vestry bearing date the 25th day of + March, 1763, that there was a deficiency in the work which ought to + have been done on the Falls Church, by Mr. Chas. Broadwater, and + that persons were appointed to view the same and report and no + report appearing upon the records of this parish, it is ordered + that the Church Wardens do inquire into the same and report + accordingly. [Geo. Washington was present at this meeting. Ed.] + + [Illustration: Major Jos. T. Hiett] + + July 10, 1766: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish July 10, 1766, Mr. Edward Payne, + one of the Church Wardens, having reported to this Vestry that he + had applied to the persons formally appointed to view the work + which ought to have been done on the Falls Church by Mr. Chas. + Broadwater, and that they denied having any order to view the same + and refused to concern themselves; + + Ordered: That Thos. Price do view the work done to the Falls Church + and report what deficiency appears in the same, and that Mr. Edward + Payne do apply to the Vestry of Fairfax Parish to appoint a workman + to view the same and that the said do report as aforesaid, and that + Mr. Edward Payne attend the viewing on behalf of this parish and to + apply to the said Vestry to appoint one of their members to attend + the same on behalf of their parish. + + + February 23, 1767: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish at the Glebe the 23rd day of + February, 1767, at which Geo. Washington was present, it was + ordered: A report being made to this Vestry by Jas. Wren and Thos. + Price, two workmen empowered by a formal order of this Vestry to + view the work done to the Falls Church and to report what + deficiency appeared in the same, etc., by which report there + appears to be a deficiency of 9 £ 14 s. 6 p. + + Ordered: That the Church Wardens of this parish apply to Maj. Chas. + Broadwater, the undertaker of said work, for the said sum, and + account with the Vestry of Fairfax Parish for their proportion of + the same when it is received. + + Ordered: That a Vestry House be built at the New Church of the + dimensions and in manner following * * (Capt. Ed. Payne agreeing + with the Vestry to build said house). + +[Illustration: Mr. George Stambaugh] + + September 9, 1768: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish September 9, 1768, at which Geo. + Washington was present, the following entries appear: + + That the Vestry being convened at the New Church in order to view + and examine the work, and having done so do find the same completed + and finished according to the articles of agreement between Capt. + Ed. Payne, the undertaker * * * + + Ordered: That Col. Geo. Mason pay him the sum of 193 pounds out of + the money in his hands belonging to the parish the same being the + last payment due to the said Payne, for the said church. (This was + probably known as Payne's Church; the church near the Fairfax C. + H.) + + November 28, 1768: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish November 28, 1768, at which Geo. + Washington was present, it was ordered: That Geo. Washington, Esq., + pay to Alex. Henderson the sum of £. 8, being the balance of £ 9 14 + s., 6 p., received from Maj. Chas. Broadwater for a deficiency on + the Falls Church. + + February 24, 1784: + + At a Vestry held for Truro Parish at Colchester, the 22nd day of + February, 1784, John Gibson, gent., is elected for a member of this + Parish in the room of his Excellency General Washington, who has + signified his resignation in a letter to Dan'l McCarty, esq. + +[Illustration: The Old Church from a war-time Photograph] + + + + +Falls Church in the Civil War. + + +In May, 1861, the Union troops moved into Virginia and occupied +Arlington Heights and Alexandria. On June 1 an engagement at Fairfax +Court House between a company of Union cavalry and Confederate troops +resulted in the loss of six Union and twenty Confederate soldiers. The +Union forces under General McDowell occupied the town of Fairfax about +the middle of July, inaugurating the first Bull Run Campaign. The battle +of Bull Run was fought July 21, 1861. + +After the first battle of Bull Run, a systematic plan for the defense of +the National Capital began to take shape. At that time the commanding +heights four miles west of Alexandria and six miles from Washington were +occupied by the Confederates, Falls Church being the headquarters of +General Longstreet. + +In October, 1861, the hills were again taken possession of by the Union +troops. The system of works for the defense of Washington on the south +began with Fort Willard below Alexandria, and terminated with Fort Smith +opposite Georgetown, comprising in all twenty-nine forts and eleven +supporting batteries, besides Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy at the +Virginia end of Chain Bridge, with their five batteries of field guns. + +[Illustration: Mr. Charles A. Marshall] + +Falls Church was the most advanced post of General McDowell's corps, +when on August 3, 1861, a correspondent of Harper's Weekly writing from +here to that paper described the old Church as it appeared at the +beginning of the Civil war as follows: + +"On this page we illustrate Fall's Church, Fairfax County, Virginia, +from a sketch by our special artist with General McDowell's 'corps +d'armee.' This is the most advanced post of our army in Fairfax County, +and has been the scene of several picket skirmishes. Falls Church was +built in 1709, and rebuilt, as an inscription on the wall informs us, by +the late "Lord" Fairfax, whose son, the present "Lord" Fairfax, is +supposed to be serving in the rebel army. The title of "Lord," we may +observe, is still given to the representative of the family. The +inscription on the old church reads as follows: + +[Illustration: Mr. John S. Garrison] + +'Henry Fairfax, an accomplished gentlemen, an upright magistrate, a +sincere Christian, died in command of the Fairfax Volunteers at +Saltillo, Mexico, 1847. But for his munificence this church might still +have been a ruin.' + +Service was held in the old church two Sundays since, Rev. Dr. Mines, +Chaplain of Second Maine Regiment, officiating, and most of the troops +in the neighborhood being present." + +Captain Henry Fairfax, to whose memory the tablet alluded to was placed +in the old church, was a graduate of West Point. At the outbreak of the +Mexican War, he organized a company called the Fairfax Volunteers +sailing to Mexico with the regiment of Virginia volunteers under command +of Colonel John F. Hamtramck. Upon arriving in Mexico, Captain Fairfax +fell a victim to the climate and died at Saltillo, August 16, 1847. His +body was brought home and buried near the church he loved so well, and +it is thought that the grave which may be seen in the foreground of the +war-time picture of the church on page 62 may be his. The tablet to his +memory has long since been destroyed, and every vestige of his +tombstone has disappeared, but nature, not forgetting his generous gifts +to the old church, has sent up a spire-shaped cedar to mark his grave. +Colonel Hamtramck died April 21, 1858, at Shepardstown, Va. + +[Illustration: Mr. F. A. Niles] + +The damage to the old church, according to one of the oldest citizens of +the town, Mr. George B. Ives, was done by a company of Union cavalry on +picket duty under command of a captain of the regular army. He permitted +his men to tear out the floor of the church and use it for a stable. The +building might have been damaged beyond repair had it not been for Mr. +Ives and the late Mr. John Bartlett, who reported the matter to General +Augur, the Military Governor of this district, by whose orders the +captain was arrested and further desecration prevented. + +About three miles from Falls Church, on the Alexandria turnpike, is +Bailey's Cross Roads, where in November, 1861, President Lincoln +reviewed the Union forces preparatory to the Peninsular Campaign. + +The story of the most important events occurring during those stormy +times around the old Colonial church is best told by the "Official +Records of the Union and Confederate Armies," extracts from reports +therein following: + +[Illustration: Dr. T. C. Quick] + +SKIRMISH AT MUNSON'S HILL AUGUST 31, 1861. + +Report of Colonel Geo. W. Taylor, 3rd N. J. Infantry, dated September 2, +1861. + +GENERAL: The pickets of the enemy having for some time been extremely +annoying to outposts on Little River Turnpike and on the road leading +from thence to Chestnut Hill, I decided on making a reconnaissance in +person with a small force with the view of cutting them off. Accordingly +I marched with 40 men, volunteers from 2 companies of my regiment, on +the morning of Aug. 31, at 3 a. m., and keeping to the woods arrived +soon after daylight at or near the point, a little beyond, at which I +desired to strike the road and cut them off. + +[Illustration: Miss Ellen W. Green] + +Here we were obliged to cross a fence and a narrow corn field where the +enemy, who had doubtless dogged our approach through the woods, lay in +considerable force. + +While in the corn we were suddenly opened upon by a rapid and sharp fire +which our men, whenever they got sight of the enemy, returned with much +spirit. Scarce two minutes elapsed when I found 3 men close to me had +been shot down. The enemy being mostly hid, I deemed it prudent to order +my men to fall back to the woods, distant about 30 yards, which I did. + +At the same time I ordered enough to remain with me to carry off the +wounded, but they did not hear or heed my order except two. With these +we got all off, as I supposed, the corn being thick, but Corporal Hand, +Co. 1, who, when I turned him over, appeared to be dying. I took his +musket, also the musket of one of the wounded and returned to the woods +to rally the men. I regret to say that none of them could be found, nor +did I meet them until I reached the blacksmith shop, three-quarters of a +mile distant. + +Here I found Capt. Regur, Company I, with his command. Re-enforcing him +with 25 men of the picket, then in charge of Capt. Vickers, 3rd regiment +N. J. volunteers, with the latter he immediately marched back to bring +in Corporal Hand, and any others still missing. He reports that on +reaching the ground, he found the enemy in increased force, and did not +re-enter the corn field, in which I think he was justified. I should +have stated that quite a number of the enemy were in full view in the +road when we jumped the fence and charged them, and that each man in the +charge, Capt. Regur leading by my side, seemed eager to be foremost; nor +did one to my knowledge flinch from the contest until my order to fall +back to the woods, which fortunately they misconstrued into a continuous +retreat to our pickets. The enemy seemed to have retreated very soon +after, as the firing had ceased before I left. + +[Illustration: Mr. Jno. D. Payne] + +The 3 wounded men are doing well except one. As near as I can ascertain +there were 3 of the enemy shot down. + +The whole affair did not last 10 minutes. + +The officers with me were Capt. Regur, Co. I, 1st Lieut. Taylor and 2d +Lieut. Spencer, both of the same company. + +All of which I have the honor, respectfully to report. + + GEO. W. TAYLOR, + Colonel, 3rd Regiment N. J. Volunteers + + BRIG. GEN. P. KEARNY, + Commanding Brigade. + +[Illustration: The Rectory--Rev. George S. Somerville] + +Sept. 12, 1861: Longstreet states that Colonel Stuart has been at Munson +Hill since its occupation by the Confederate troops; that he had driven +the enemy from Mason's, Munson's and Upton's Hills. + +Sept. 25, 1861: Reconnaissance at Lewinsville and skirmish near that +place with Stuart's cavalry. Union force 5,100 infantry, 16 pieces of +artillery and 150 cavalry, under Brig. Gen. Wm. F. Smith, commanding at +Chain Bridge. + +Sept. 25, 1861: Report of General J. E. Johnston, Headquarters Army of +Potomac to Secretary of War, Richmond, states that an advance guard of +11 regiments of infantry and Colonel Stuart's calvary is stationed at +Falls Church, Munson's and Mason's Hills, at Padgett's and at +Springfield Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in a strong +defensive position. + +[Illustration: Dr. L. E. Gott] + +Sept. 28, 1861: Affair at Munson's Hill, near Vanderburg's House. Union +force attacked at night on march to Poolesville. Lieut. Col. Isaac J. +Wistar, Commanding California Regiment, reported 4 killed and 14 +wounded. + +Nov. 16, 1861: In General Orders No. 45, Headquarters Army of Potomac, +Major General McClellan gave Fort on Upton's Hill name of Fort Ramsay. + +Nov. 18, 1861: Skirmish on road from Falls Church to Fairfax Court +House, about a mile south of Falls Church, between a detachment of 1st +Va. Cavalry under Lieut. Col. Fitz Lee, and 14th N. Y. S. M., under Lt. +Col. E. B. Fowler. Union loss 2 killed, 1 wounded, 10 missing. +Confederate loss, Private Tucker killed and John C. Chichester, Lee's +guide, mortally wounded; 2 slightly wounded. Col. Lee's horse killed +under him during action. + +Sept. 2, 1862: Skirmish near Falls Church. F. J. Porter, Major General +Commanding, Headquarters Army Corps, Hall's Hill, in his report to +General Marcy states that a battery supported by cavalry suddenly +appeared on Barnett's Hill and opened fire upon Pleasanton at Falls +Church, while dismounted cavalry fired upon and killed 3 of his mounted +pickets, who, armed only with sabers and pistols, could not contend with +the enemy protected by timber. Pleasanton replied with his battery but +the shots fell very short. The enemy supposed to have come from +direction of Hunter's Mill returned toward Vienna. He states that the +country beyond his picket lines affords every facility for such attacks, +and that the commanding general must expect them to be frequent so long +as the enemy continues in large force in his front and wishes to divert +attention from other movements, that from the opposite hills his camp +and movements are open to view of the enemy. + +[Illustration: Mr. R. J. Yates] + +Sept. 4, 1862: Brig. Gen'l A. Pleasanton from his camp near Fort Albany, +Va., in his report to Brig. Gen. R. B. Marcy, chief of staff, written at +5 a. m., states that he is about to be off with the sixth cavalry and +two other companies for Falls Church where he expects to make his +headquarters and from whence he will scout as directed. He suggests +that the telegraph be extended to Falls Church and asks that supplies +for his command be forwarded by railroad to a point opposite Falls +Church. + +[Illustration: Mr. S. A. Copper] + +At 8:30 a. m., his message states that from reports received by him, the +impression is that the enemy is going to cross the Potomac at Walker's +Landing. + +At 12: 45 p. m., he reports from Falls Church that the enemy's advanced +pickets, on the Leesburg and Georgetown turnpike are three-fourths of a +mile this side of Difficult Creek, and that a regiment of Mississippi +cavalry, the Jeff Davis Legion, is at the bridge over the creek. + +At 1:30 p. m., from Falls Church his dispatch to the chief of staff +states that the squadron on the Vienna road reports the enemy to be +approaching from that direction in some force; that one of his men had +been badly wounded in a skirmish. Gives it as his opinion that the enemy +is only making a show of force to conceal his movements on the upper +Potomac. + +Sept. 4, 1862: Major General F. J. Porter from Headquarters Fifth Army +Corps at Hall's Hill, sends a message at 4:30 p. m., to Major Gen'l +McClellan stating that Gen'l Morell from Minor's Hill reports that the +enemy has begun an attack on the Union pickets, with artillery, infantry +and cavalry. + +[Illustration: Mrs. J. L. Auchmoody] + +Sept. 4, 1862: At 6:45 p. m., from Upton's Hill, Brig. Gen'l J. D. Cox, +commanding division, makes the following report to A. V. Colburn, Ass't +Adjutant General: + +"The firing upon General Pleasanton's command was from, possibly, three +pieces of light artillery. The small-arm fighting was confined to the +head of the enemy's column, deployed as skirmishers, with some +dismounted men or infantry, it is not certain which. The pickets of +Pleasanton's command, Eight Illinois and Eight Pennsylvania Cavalry, +skirmished with them. We lost 2 men shot. The force of the enemy did not +come beyond the edge of the woods, one and a half or 2 miles above Falls +Church, and no large numbers were actually seen. The reports sent by +General Pleasanton were necessarily those brought in by his men. A +regiment of cavalry, with two light pieces, rapidly handled, would +account for all the demonstration I could see with my glass, but there +may have been more. General Pleasanton's cavalry being ordered away, we +shall not have cavalry to scout the country till General Buford arrives. +Scouts report all quiet toward Fairfax and Little River pike." + +[Illustration: Mr. Samuel Luttrell] + +Aug. 16, 1863: Skirmish at Falls Church; no circumstantial reports on +file. + +June 23-24, 1864: Skirmishes near Falls Church and Centreville, Va. +Extract from report of Col. Charles R. Lowell, Jr., 2nd Mass. Cavalry, +commanding cavalry brigade. Headquarters cavalry brigade near Falls +Church, Va., June 24, 1864. + +A patrol from the camp of 16th N. Y. Cavalry consisting of 4 men was +fired upon last evening between the pike and the railroad by a party of +about 10 men and 2 of the patrol captured; the other two brought word to +Annandale, and Col. Lazelle sent out a party of 40 men under Lieut. +Tuck, 16th N. Y. Cavalry in search of attacking party. Party halted one +and a half miles beyond Centreville to feed. Party of about 60 of the +the enemy dashed in upon them. Men demoralized and panic stricken +scattered in all directions. Lieut. Tuck only one as yet, 6 p. m., who +has reached camp; remainder either wounded, prisoners, or straggling. +After Tuck had been sent out a citizen reported to Col. Lazelle that he +had been stopped by Mosby last evening near Centreville and detained +under guard till morning, and that he had seen small parties numbering +about 100 men. Col. Lazelle, upon receiving this information, sent out +150 men to support Tuck under Major Nicholson. This party started at 8 +a. m. At 2 p. m., Tuck returned, reporting attack as above at 11 a. m. +He was started by Col. Lazelle with a party of 15 men to overtake party +of 150 and put them on trail. Major Forbes with 100 men and ambulances +has been sent out this evening to place of surprise to pick up +stragglers and any wounded, and support Major Nicholson if Mosby's force +is reported more than 60 men. + +[Illustration: Mrs. C. Larner] + +June 25, 1864, 11 a. m.: Major Forbes just returned from Centreville and +a clearer account of affairs can be given. Mosby with 200 men came down +Thursday evening to near Union Mills and an iron gun drawn by 6 horses. +Squad of Kincheloe's men took 2 of Col. Lazelle's patrol. Mosby returned +to Union Mills Friday morning and marched his column back through +Centreville about 10:30 a. m. Tuck's men feeding horses on newly cut +hay, men in cherry trees, some asleep, one picket sitting on fence. + +Mosby learned of Tuck and sent part of his men rapidly on. Shot man on +post, causing panic among the rest. + +[Illustration: Mr. W. H. Barksdale] + +July 18-21, 1864: Scout from Falls Church, Va. Col. Henry M. Lazelle, +16th N. Y. Cavalry commanding brigade, writing under date of July 21, +1864, from headquarters cavalry brigade near Falls Church, Va., to +Lieut. Col. J. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant General and chief of staff, +reports return to camp of a portion of a party of 10 men sent under +charge of 2d Lieut. Gray, 13th N. Y. Cavalry on Monday evening last. +About 4 o'clock a. m. to-day, while between Sangsters and Fairfax +Station was ambuscaded by a party of from 50 to 60; loss 5 men taken +prisoners and 7 horses. + +[Illustration: Mr. Wm. B. Wright] + + + +Churches and Societies. + + +THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. One of the most attractive church edifices in +the village of Falls Church is the Presbyterian Church, a picture of +which is shown on page 5. + +It was built in 1884, being formally dedicated in October of that year. +The building now used by the Sunday School of the church, which was +built before the civil war by Dr. Simon J. Groot, as a hall for +religious and secular public meetings, was purchased and formally +dedicated as a church November 20, 1866. + +Since that date the pastors have been Rev. H. P. Dechert, who resigned +in 1870, Rev. David H. Riddle, Rev. D. L. Rathbun and Rev. R. A. +Davison, D. D. + +The Rev. Mr. Riddle's pastorate extended over a period of seventeen +years, and it was during his term that the present handsome stone church +was built. + +The Rev. Mr. Rathbun was pastor from 1890 to 1900. + +[Illustration: Mr. J. W. Seay] + +The church has a large membership and the congregation continues to +increase. + +The Sunday School connected with the church, of which Mr. E. C. Hough is +Superintendent, is one of the largest in the village. + +DULIN CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. After the close of the war of 1861-65 +the Methodists of Falls Church found themselves without a house of +worship, the church in which they had formerly worshipped having been +destroyed by soldiers of the Union Army while encamped close by. For a +time they held services in the "Old Falls Church," the present Episcopal +Church of the town until some of the leading members, desirous of having +a house of worship of their own, took steps towards the erection of the +present building near the site of their old church, among them being the +late H. W. Febrey, John E. Febrey, B. F. Shreve, Jos. E. Birch and Wm. +Dulin. + +Mr. Wm. Dulin gave the site and soon there was erected thereon a church +which was dedicated in the spring of 1869. The parsonage was built a few +years later. The church as first built was remodeled in 1893. The +church officers are as follows: W. H. Torreyson, W. H. Shreve, R. W. +Birch, W. S. Tucker, W. M. Ellison, Trustees; W. H. Shreve, F. L. Birch, +J. H. Brunner, E. J. Febrey, W. M. Ellison, Stewards. + +[Illustration: Mr. J. H. Wells] + +COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH. Columbia Baptist Church was organized in 1857 +by Rev. Hiram Reed, and up to the beginning of the civil war had about +300 enrolled on the church books as active members. + +Services were discontinued during the war and the church used as a +hospital by the Union troops. Later it was used as a public school for a +number of years prior to 1870. In that year the State Mission Board sent +the Rev. W. S. O. Thomas to reopen the church as a place of worship. +Rev. Mr. Thomas was succeeded by Rev. Hugh McCormick, now in Porto Rico. + +The Mission Board assisted the church liberally in a financial way up to +the time Rev. Mr. McCormick assumed charge, since which time the +congregation has been self-supporting. + +The following pastors have occupied the pulpit for various terms since +the church was first organized: Rev. Hiram Reed, Rev. Hugh McCormick, +Rev. George E. Truitt, Rev. G. W. T. Noland, Rev. J. B. Clayton, Rev. J. +T. Barbor, Rev. J. W. Kincheloe and Rev. A. W. Graves. + +[Illustration: Mr. M. H. Brinkerhoff] + +The church at this time has a membership of 103 and is in a more +prosperous condition than at any time since the war. + +The officers of the church are: Deacons: E. J. Galpin, Thomas Hillier, +Frank Williams. Clerk, Thomas Hillier; Treasurer, Mrs. Geo. W. +Hawxhurst; Trustees, E. J. Galpin, Geo. F. McInturff, Elijah Berry. + +The Sunday School has about forty scholars on the rolls, the officers of +which are: Mr. R. S. Ilsley, Superintendent, Mr. Van Quick, Assistant +Superintendent, Miss Emma Seaman, Organist. + +THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. The First Congregational Church of +Falls Church, Va., was organized and duly recognized by Council May 30, +1876, the Congregational Society having first been organized in October, +1875. + +Services were held in the Baptist Church up to 1879 when the present +attractive church building was erected. It is of Gothic design, with +main audience room seating 300, and a Sunday School room in the rear. A +fine toned bell was purchased in 1881. + +[Illustration: Mrs. A. V. Piggott] + +At its organization 25 members united in forming the church. At that +time it was thought by some that another church in such a small town +would result in dissension among the Christian people. Such was not the +intention of this church. At its first annual meeting a resolution was +unanimously adopted expressing "good wishes toward every church of +Christ in this place, and its readiness and desire to co-operate with +them in every good work." The other churches responded in a Christian +spirit, and the pastors and churches of this town have always cordially +worked together in the cause of the Master. + +The first minister engaged by the Society was Rev. J. W. Chickering, Jr. +The first regular pastor of the church was Rev. L. B. Platt, who +supplied the pulpit from November, 1877 to July, 1880, followed by Rev. +A. L. Park, November, 1881 to December, 1882. Rev. Wm. W. Jordan, May, +1883 to October, 1885. Rev. F. W. Tuckerman, September, 1886 to May, +1890. Rev. R. E. Eels, acting pastor, February, 1891 to December, 1891. +Rev. J. H. Jenkins, January, 1893 to July, 1897. Rev. Arsene +Schmavonian, May, 1899 to May, 1901. Rev. Franklin Noble, the present +minister was called to the church December, 1901. + +[Illustration: Mr. G. B. Ives] + +The following are the officers of the church: Trustees, Geo. F. Rollins, +M. H. Brinkerhoff, Geo. W. Poole; Treasurer, Dr. J. B. Gould; Clerk, +Frank H. Eastman; Superintendent Sunday School, Miss Gertrude Nourse. +Deacons: Geo. F. Rollins, G. A. L. Merrifield and Albert P. Eastman. +Deaconesses: Mrs. Albert P. Eastman and Mrs. Helen C. Raymond. + +ST. JAMES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. St. James Roman Catholic Church, Falls +Church, of which Rev. Father Tierney is Pastor, was built in 1902 and is +one of the finest specimens of Gothic architecture in Northern Virginia. +It is built of Virginia sand stone taken from a quarry near the village. + +The old church, a wooden structure built about 26 years ago, had become +too small for the growing congregation, and through the munificence of +Mrs. Thomas Ryan of New York City, the present handsome and imposing +edifice was erected at a more convenient point. + +[Illustration: Mr. Nathan Lynch] + +Father Tierney has been in charge of this parish for about ten years and +under his ministration the church has grown in numbers and influence, +the membership at present being about 325. + +The church and parsonage was designed and built under the supervision of +Mr. A. O. Von Herbulis, an architect of wide reputation and a resident +of this village. + +THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Methodist Episcopal Church, situated +on Washington Street, was built in 1875 chiefly through the aid of the +late Isaac Crossman. He donated the site for the building and later +contributed liberally to its support. + +Rev. D. C. Hedrick is the present pastor, to whom the congregation has +become much attached during the brief time he has been stationed here. +The following are the officers of the church: Trustees, J. M. Thorne, M. +E. Church, W. Y. Swiggett, S. S. Luttrell, W. W. Biggs, V. E. Kerr, +Henry Crocker, and Geo. G. Crossman; Stewards, M. E. Church, J. M. +Thorne and W. Y. Swiggett. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Mary G. Sims] + +CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY. Meets every Sunday at 6:15 p. m., at the +Presbyterian Chapel. Officers: A. M. Smith, President; Miss Raydelle B. +Shaw, Vice President; Jesse Varcoe, Secretary; Miss Emma Seaman, +Corresponding Secretary; Milton Thorne, Treasurer. + +EPWORTH LEAGUE OF THE M. E. CHURCH. President, W. W. Biggs; Vice +Presidents, Miss Ida N. Ball, Mrs. V. E. Kerr; Mrs. M. H. Luttrell, Dr. +S. S. Luttrell, Miss Pearl Luttrell; Secretary, Walter S. Kerr; +Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Thorne; Organist, Miss Pearl Luttrell. + +JEFFERSON INSTITUTE. Enrollment session 1904-5 147. Principal, Prof. E. +C. Sine; Teachers, Miss Fannie Weadon, Miss Ruth Dyer, Miss Ida N. Ball. + +OAKWOOD CEMETERY. Oakwood Cemetery is beautifully situated in the +Eastern part of the town on the site of the old Methodist Church. It +contains about 5 acres enclosed with a neatly trimmed evergreen hedge. +The officers of the cemetery association are Wm. N. Febrey, President; +E. J. Northrup, Secretary; G. A. L. Merrifield, Treasurer; M. E. Church, +Superintendent. + +[Illustration: Mr. A. E. Rowell] + +KEMPER LODGE NO. 64, A. F. & A. M. Chartered December 3, 1896. Meets +second and fourth Fridays in each month. Membership about 60. Officers: +W. A. Ball, W. M.; A. H. Barbor, S. W.; J. R. Hagan, J. W. Past Masters: +John H. Fisher, M. E. Church, G. T. Mankin, Dr. Geo. B. Fadeley, Dr. T. +C. Quick, Geo. M. Newell. + +THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS. Pioneer Lodge No. 1 of Good +Templars was organized on April 27, 1887. This lodge meets every Tuesday +night at Odd Fellows Hall. The lodge has a membership of eighty-five in +good standing. The object of the order is prohibition of the liquor +traffic by the will of the people, and no saloons have been allowed here +for over thirty years, largely attributable to Pioneer Lodge which keeps +public sentiment alive on the subject. The present officers of the lodge +are: Henry Hawxhurst, Chief Templar; Jesse Varcoe, Past Chief Templar; +Miss Laura Summers, Secretary; George W. Hawxhurst, Financial Secretary; +Mrs. J. H. Garretson, Treasurer; J. H. Marr, Marshal; Miss Raydelle B. +Shaw, Chaplain; Miss Catharine Foley, Vice Templar; G. C. Kesterson, +Guard; Walter Kerr, Sentinel; Mrs. M. M. Erwin, Organist; J. H. +Garretson, Lodge Deputy; Geo. W. Hawxhurst, Superintendent of Juveniles. + +Falls Church is also headquarters of the Grand Lodge of the State. Since +1887 the office of Grand Secretary has been located here, Mr. George W. +Hawxhurst, who has filled the office for the past thirty-two years, +being a resident of the town. + +[Illustration: Dr. S. S. Luttrell] + +VIRGINIA STATE AUDUBON SOCIETY. The Virginia State Audubon Society was +organized at Falls Church, September 29, 1903. The objects of the +society are to protect our native birds, to discourage the buying and +wearing for ornamental purposes of the feathers of all birds other than +the ostrich and domesticated fowls, and to promote a popular interest in +bird study. The present officers are: President, John B. Henderson; 1st +Vice President, Wm. C. Pennywitt; 2nd Vice President, Nathan Banks, and +Secretary-Treasurer, E. C. Hough. Regular members pay $1.00 a year as +dues. Children under 16 pay no dues but sign pledge cards agreeing not +to harm birds or their eggs. The society has had printed for free +distribution a digest of the recent game law. + +[Illustration: Oakwood Cemetery] + +INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. Falls Church Lodge No. 11, I. O. O. +F., was organized October 24, 1890, and has a membership of +seventy-four. The lodge owns its hall, a large brick structure, located +near the corner of Broad and Little Falls streets, in the center of the +town. The building which was erected in 1891 contains a handsome lodge +room on the second floor and a spacious public room on the first floor. +The order makes a specialty of giving attention to its members during +sickness and pays funeral expenses on death. The lodge numbers among its +members some of the most influential citizens of the town. Its present +officers are as follows: John D. Payne, N. G.; T. O. Marr, V. G.; J. H. +Garretson, Sec'y; J. H. Brunner, F. S.; George W. Hawxhurst, Treasurer; +Rev. W. H. Wolffe, Chaplain; Dr. Geo. B. Fadeley, R. S. to N. G.; Thomas +Hillier, L. S. to N. G.; Geo. A. Brunner, S. P. G.; W. H. Nowlan, R. S. +to V. G.; C. F. Newman, L. S. to V. G.; Ray Marcey, O. G.; Walter +Marcey, I. G.; W. Maben, Warden; Webster Donaldson, R. S. S.; Chauncey +Seay, L. S. S.; T. S. Luckett, Conductor. + +R. E. LEE CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. This chapter was +organized in June, 1898. Its object is to assist needy widows and +orphans of Confederate soldiers. The chapter has 43 members, the +officers for the present term being as follows: President, Mrs. G. J. +Head; Vice President, Mrs. George G. Bolling; Secretary, Mrs. A. H. +Barbor; Treasurer, Miss Nellie Green; Historian, Mrs. Jonas Unverzagt; +Registrar, Miss Georgia Head. + +[Illustration: Mr. H. N. Ryer] + +FALLS CHURCH LIBRARY. The Falls Church Library, organized 1899, is +conducted by the Library Association under the supervision of a Board of +Control. The library building is located on Columbia street near +Washington street. + +Officers: Pickering Dodge, President; Wm. A. Ball, Secretary; Librarian, +Geo. W. Hawxhurst. + +PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA. Washington Camp No. 1, organized in +1902. Officers: C. C. Walters, Past President; H. H. Moreland, +President; Lester Brunner, Vice President; G. W. Moreland, M. of F.; M. +M. Erwin, R. S.; E. L. Payne, F. S.; B. F. Elliott, Conductor; Upton +Galisher, Inspector; W. H. Erwin, Guard; J. H. Brunner, Chaplain; +Trustees, A. H. Barbor, C. C. Walters and J. H. Brunner. + +[Illustration: Dr. M. E. Church.] + +Mr. M. E. Church is a native of the State of Vermont, but has been a +resident of Virginia for nearly twenty-five years, and of Falls Church +for the past eighteen years, during which period he has been closely +identified with every public movement. He it was who first established +telephonic communication between Falls Church and Washington City over +sixteen years ago, and from a small beginning has built up an extensive +telephone system extending over Fairfax and Alexandria Counties and +reaching to Bluemont in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The company operating +this system is incorporated under the name of the Falls Church Telephone +and Telegraph Company, and Mr. Church is the chief stock-holder, +President and General Manager. Exchanges are operated at Falls Church +and Rosslyn. + +Mr. Church has brought to his adopted home a large share of the energy +and sterling business qualities for which his native state is noted. +This has been manifest from the moment he set foot on the soil of his +adopted state. He first engaged in the drug business in Falls Church +which he successfully conducted for over twelve years, during which +period he trained several young men who have since been conducting a +successful business of their own. The esteem in which he was held by his +fellow-pharmacists in the state was evidenced by his unanimous election +to the office of President of the State Pharmaceutical Association, a +position which he filled with great credit, as well as many other +positions of trust and responsibility. He still remains an active and +esteemed member of that Association. + +[Illustration: Miss B. C. Merrifield] + +About fifteen years ago he entered into the real estate, loan and +insurance business, and notwithstanding his lack of previous training or +experience, has been eminently successful along that line, and to him +more than any other one man, is due the growth and development of our +beautiful little village, as he has been untiring in his efforts to +locate here in homes of their own a desirable class of moral and +intellectual citizens. One of his first ventures along this line was +the organization of the Falls Church Improvement Company, of which he +was general manager and a large stock-holder. His associates in this +company were: Hon. Schyler Duryee, then Chief Clerk of the U. S. Patent +Office; Judge A. A. Freeman, now of New Mexico, and others. This company +successfully developed the "Sherwood Sub-Division," one of the first +sub-divisions put on the market in Fairfax County. + +[Illustration: Mr. R. C. L. Moncure] + +In the loan business Mr. Church has been particularly successful, by his +conservative investments and faithful fidelity to the interests of his +clients, both investors and borrowers have learned to place implicit +confidence in his judgment and integrity and as a result, he has been +able to bring together those who wish to borrow money with which to buy +or build a home, and those who wish to invest funds, thereby enabling +the worthy home-seeker to own his own home, making of him not only a +prominent but more interested and desirable citizen. + +While not an Attorney at Law Mr. Church's experience and familiarity +with the real estate law, titles and values of land in Fairfax and +Alexandria Counties have made his services and opinions much sought +after as an expert in such matters, both by the courts and private +parties. Persons seeking homes or investments in the suburbs of +Washington will do well to consult him, as his judgment can be relied +upon in real estate matters, and his integrity is unquestioned. + +[Illustration: Mr. Geo. M. Newell] + +In the development of Falls Church Mr. Church has been indefatigable, +and has been personally identified with every progressive movement. In +addition to his drug-store, real estate and telephone business, he has +been largely interested in procuring better transportation facilities in +the way of electric railroads; he has built many houses in the town and +organized several companies for the purpose of developing the trade and +industries of this section. He is at present engaged in organizing an +electric light company for the purpose of furnishing light and power to +Falls Church and the country intervening between that and Washington; he +has great faith in the future of the town and is not afraid to invest +his money in home enterprises. + + * * * * * + +"EVERYTHING IN THE MUSIC LINE" + +[Illustration: + +The LEADING + +Piano, Organ & Music House + +In the National Capital is + +Sanders & Stayman Co. + +1327 F Street N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C.] + +Baltimore Store, + +Academy of Music Building + +PERCY S. FOSTER, + +Manager Washington Warerooms + + * * * * * + +"Wonder What Mertz Will Say To-Day?" + +Store closes at 6 p. m. daily: 9 p. m. Saturdays + +Satisfaction! + +[Illustration] + +That's the foundation of the success of Mertz-tailorings. Every suit +made in the "Mertz-way" is guaranteed to satisfy. This special offers +you a chance to prove that. + +Fall and winter suits to order in the "Mertz-way" of Mertz's exclusive +"Royal" Black Thibet and "Royal" Black, Blue and Brown Worsted fully +guaranteed--for ... $10 + +Mertz and Mertz Co. + +906 F Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. H. C. Birge] + + * * * * * + + Established 1861 + + Mason, Fenwick & Lawrence + + PATENT and + Trade-Mark Lawyers, + Solicitors and Experts. + + Practice before the U. S. Patent Office and Courts + Guide Book on Patents free on Application + + 602 F STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: The Inn] + + * * * * * + + THE UNITED REALTY CO. + + 612 14TH ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. + + Is composed of about forty people working together + for mutual interest and doing a general + + Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Business + + Our general business is buying and selling all + kinds of real property on commission, but we make + a specialty of trading country and suburban property + for city property and exchanging improved + property for unimproved property. + + { _Bargains for Buyers_, + We Find { _Trades for Traders_, + { _Investments for Investors_. + + Homes in the City, Farms in the Country, Investments Everywhere. + Don't Buy or Sell without Seeing us First. + + R. T. CHATTERTON, Manager. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. Henry R. Thompson] + + Established 1873. + + M. Goldsmith & Son, + .. JEWELERS .. + + Our Xmas Stock is Complete and we invite inspection. Thousands of + Suggestions are Here and Gift Buying is Made Easy. Goods laid + aside for future delivery. Select now while Stock is Complete. + + 911 Pennsylvania Ave. :: Washington, D. C. + + Country Real Estate + + Houses--Lots--Farms + + E. W. PIERCE, Vienna, Fairfax County, Va. + + Fifteen miles from Washington Steam and Electric Roads + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Columbia Baptist Church] + + * * * * * + + John N. Gibson + + DEALER IN + + Oak, Chestnut and Pine Lumber + Plastering, Laths, Pine and + Chestnut Shingles, and + Framing Lumber a + Specialty .. .. .. .. + +East Falls Church, Va. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Dulin Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (South)] + + * * * * * + + LOAN NEGOTIATED AND ABSTRACTS + OF TITLE FURNISHED + + FARMS, TOWN LOTS AND HOMES + FOR SALE + + Wm. M. Ellison + + ATTORNEY AT LAW + AND REAL ESTATE AGENT + + PRACTICING IN ALL THE COURTS IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA + THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND THE + U. S. COURT OF CLAIMS + + OFFICES + + WEST FALLS CHURCH, VA. AND 402 6TH ST. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mrs. M. E. DePutron] + + * * * * * + + Washington, Arlington and + Falls Church Railway + (U. S. MAIL ROUTE) + + Only Line to Fort Myer, Va., and Short Route to + Ballston, Falls Church, Dunnloring, Vienna, + Oakton and Fairfax Court House, Va., + and Arlington National Cemetery + + The Bivouac of the Nation's Dead, on the banks of the beautiful Potomac + + Take Pennsylvania Avenue or F Street cars + to Aqueduct Bridge + + For detailed information in regard to movement of trains or freight and + passenger rates apply to the officers of the company. + + F. B. HUBBELL, Vice-President and Manager T. GARRETT, Passenger Agent + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. G. W. Cassilear] + + * * * * * + + Manager Falls Church Improvement Company + Notary Public for Fairfax and Alexandria Counties + + M. E. CHURCH + REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE + + Washington Telephone Connections + + FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: St. James Roman Catholic Church] + + * * * * * + + THOMAS HILLIER + + CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER + + FAITHFUL CONSTRUCTION HONEST MATERIAL + + ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED + + West Falls Church, Va. P. O. West End Va. + + Houses shown on pages 20, 35, 55, 58, 69 and 93 were built by + Mr. Hillier, besides many others in Falls Church and vicinity, + including St. James Catholic Church and + parsonage at Falls Church and the Catholic + Church and parsonage at + Fortress Monroe, Va. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: The Methodist Episcopal Church] + + * * * * * + + JOHN D. PAYNE + + LICENSED AUCTIONEER + + Will Conduct Sales of Both Real and + Personal Property on Short Notice + + Terms: REASONABLE Telephone in Residence + + FALLS CHURCH, VA. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. V. E. Kerr] + + * * * * * + + Falls Church + + Telephone & Telegraph Co. + + OPERATING UNDER LICENSE OF THE + + Southern Bell Telephone Company + + EXCHANGES AT + + FALLS CHURCH AND ROSSLYN, VA. + + ALL LONG DISTANCE CONNECTIONS + + M. E. CHURCH, PRESIDENT + + F. E. PARKER, SUPERINTENDENT + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. Herbert G. Hopkins] + + * * * * * + + CAPITAL $25,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS OVER $6,000 + + THE + + National Bank of Fairfax + + FAIRFAX, VA. + + BEGAN BUSINESS AUGUST 25, 1902 + + R. WALTON MOORE, PRESIDENT + + DR. M. BROOKS, VICE-PRESIDENT + + JAMES W. BALLARD, CASHIER + + DIRECTORS + + R. WALTON MOORE + + JOS. E. WILLARD + + F. M. BROOKS + + M. E. CHURCH + + E. R. SWETNAM + + M. D. HALL + + S. R. DONOHOE + + C. VERNON FORD + + T. B. PUTNAM + + Deposits solicited. Negotiable paper discounted. We have + unsurpassed facilities for making collections. Collections made + free of charge to depositors. Every accommodation consistent with + prudent business methods will be extended to our patrons. Small + deposits receive the same attention as large ones. Prompt attention + given to all business. Loans negotiated. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Dr. N. F. Graham] + + * * * * * + + A BRANCH HERE + + French Steam Laundry + + We doubt if there is a better laundry in the + country than the French Steam Laundry. By + best, we mean the quality of work done and + the care exercised to guard the interest of patrons. + We have become one of their authorized + agents, and before accepting the agency, satisfied + ourselves as to the superior excellence of + this laundry's service. + + F. P. WELLER, Druggist + + 3534 M Street Northwest + + "Right by the Aqueduct" + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Capt. M. S. Roberts] + + * * * * * + + CHAS. L. BLANTON'S + BLACK MINORCAS + BARRED ROCKS ... + + _FALLS CHURCH, VA._ + + There is nothing that costs so little and gives such returns as poultry. + For the past ten years I have been breeding Barred Plymouth Rocks and + Black Minorcas and have produced many high scoring exhibition birds that + have carried off honors in some of the largest shows in the United States + in very strong competition. + + LIST OF WINNINGS + + At Upper Marlboro, Md., September, 1898, 1st pen, 1st cockerel, and 1st + pullet, Black Minorcas; 2d pen, 2d cockerel, and 1st pullet, Barred + Plymouth Rocks. + + At Hamilton, Va., November, 1898, 1st, 2d, and 3d pullets, 1st cockerel, + and 1st and 2d pens, Black Minorcas. + + At Washington, D. C., January, 1899, 1st and 2d hens, 2d and 4th + pullets, and 3d and 4th pens, Black Minorcas; 5th pen, Barred Plymouth + Rocks. Also special for Black Minorca hen. + + At Rockville, Md., September, 1899, 1st pen, 1st cock, and 1st and 2d + hens, Black Minorcas; 2d pen, Barred Plymouth Rocks. + + At Hagerstown, Md., October, 1899, on three entries, 1st hen, 1st + pullet, and 4th cockerel, Black Minorcas. + + At Hamilton, Va., November, 1899, 2d pen, 1st cock, 1st, 2d, and 3d + cockerels (13 in class), 2d, 3d, and 4th hens, and 2d, 3d, and 4th + pullets, Black Minorcas. Also special on Black Minorca cock, and silver + trophy cup for the best display of Black Minorcas. + + At Laurel, Md., January, 1900, on Black Minorcas, 1st pen, 2d cock, 1st + hen, 1st and 3d cockerels, 1st and 2d pullets. Special on display. 1st + on Barred Rock cockerel, (19 in class). + + At Hamilton, Va., October, 1900, on Black Minorcas, won 1st and 3d + cocks, 3d and 4th hens, 1st and 4th cockerels, 1st and 4th pullets, 2d + and 4th pens. Three out of four specials; tied for best display, and + received a silver cup for highest-scoring display. + + At the great Philadelphia Poultry Show, held at Philadelphia, Pa., + December, 1900, won, on Black Minorcas, 1st pen, 2d cock, 5th hen, 2d + and 4th cockerels, 2d and 4th pullets. Special on pen. Special on best + display. + + At Philadelphia, Pa., January, 1901, in the largest and best class of + Minorcas ever brought together in America up to that time, I won seven + regular prizes and thirteen specials. At this show I had three of the + largest cockerels ever shown at one time by a single exhibitor, their + combined weight being 29 pounds. In a class of sixty-four females I won + first on the best shaped bird. Also, won nearest to ideal comb on a + cockbird in a class of nineteen. + +Eggs in season at $3 per sitting, two sittings, $5. Birds a matter of +correspondence. Address all communications to + + CHARLES L. BLANTON, East Falls Church, Va. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: The Misses Birch] + + * * * * * + + ... FALLS CHURCH BAKERY ... + + HOME-MADE BREAD, PIES AND CAKES + + Geo. L. Erwin + + PHONE NO. 1 + + Falls Church, Va. + + SALESROOM IN POST OFFICE BUILDING + + Bread and orders delivered daily without extra cost, at all residences + in Falls Church, Vienna, Dunnloring, Lewinsville, Langley, + Ballston, Bailey's X Roads, Halls Hill and Merrifield. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Rev. H. A. Beach] + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Congregational Church] + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Mr. E. J. Northrup] + + * * * * * + + Washington, Arlington and Falls + Church Railway Company + + + Electric Railway Line--Passenger, Mail, + Freight and Parcel Express, between + + Fairfax C. H., Dunnloring, Vienna, Oakton, + Falls Church, Glen Carlyn, Balston, Clarendon, + Alexandria C. H. and Washington + City, also Arlington National Cemetery, + Fort Myer, Columbia + and Nauck. : : : + + FREQUENT SERVICE LOW RATES + + Waiting Room and Ticket Office + + 3528 M St. N. W., Washington, D. C. + + For further information apply to any agent of Company + + F. B. Hubbell, V-Prest. and Manager T. Garrett, Pass. Agent + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Virginia Village, by Charles A. Stewart + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30054 *** |