Some 200 years ago, a sawmill sat in what is now Northside Park in Vienna. I haven’t seen this sawmill referred to in various accounts of mills in Fairfax County and the Vienna area, and I don’t know when exactly the mill operated. But the existing evidence–even though there are… Continue reading
If you happen to use the Washington and Old Dominion bike trail between Vienna and Hunter Mill Road, take a few steps off the trail at Clarks Crossing Road to appreciate the charming, century-old house on the south side of the road. (From the sidewalk or road, of course, given… Continue reading
Decades before there was a Wolftrap Elementary School, Clarke’s School House serviced the same general area outside Vienna, Virginia that Wolftrap now serves. Clarke’s School House, aka the Clarke School, was a Fairfax County public school that sat on the south side of Clarks Crossing Road less than a mile… Continue reading