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Rutherford Community History
Learn the history of the Rutherford and Braddock areas!
- Rutherford’s Origins: From the July 2006 Rutherford Civic Association Newsletter: “...Jack Lockwood found an article in The Washington Post from November 1961 describing the new model homes in Rutherford, Fairfax County. ‘Environmental planning will provide residents of Rutherford with the luxury of estate living by creating a new kind of spatial relationship between each structure and its land.’ The article goes on to say that ‘Qualified applicants will be able to purchase with 10 percent cash on a 25-year mortgage. Prices will range from $27,950.’”
Values have increased by more than the rate of inflation: $27,950 in 1961 had the same buying power as $189,667.39 in 2006.
- The true story behind a recent archaeological find - an early 19th century cemetery - at Guinea Rd. and Rt. 236!
- Exciting new projects on the history of the Braddock district and Northern Virginia!
- Sample books from the Fairfax County Maps & Publications Center Bookstore, about Braddock, Annandale and Fairfax history:
- Fairfax County Braddock's True Gold: 20th-Century Life in the Heart of Fairfax County, Marion Meany and Mary Lipsey
- Annandale, Virginia: A Brief History, by Robert M. Moxham. Edited by Estella K. Bryans-Munson
- The Battle of Chantilly (Ox Hill): A Monumental Storm, by Charles V. Mauro
- City of Canvas: Camp Russell A. Alger and the Spanish-American War, by Noel Garraux Harrison
- Fairfax County and the War Between the States, by the Fairfax County Civil War Centennial Commission
- Fairfax County, Virginia: A History, by Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin, and Patrick Reed
- Fractured Land: Fairfax County's Role in the Vote for Secession, May 23, 1861, complied by Brian A. Conley
- Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia, by Ross D. Netherton and Nan Netherton
- Gum Springs: The Triumph of a Black Community, by John Terry Chase
- Legato School: A Centennial Souvenir, edited by Tony P. Wrenn, Virginia B. Peters, and Edith Moore Sprouse
- Catalogue of the Photographic Archives of Fairfax County, Virginia, compiled by Nan Netherton and Eric Grundset
- Return to Union: Fairfax County's Role in the Adoption of the Virginia Constitution of 1870, compiled by Brian A. Conley
- Wakefield Chapel, by D'Anne A. Evans
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