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1909 - Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad extends to Great Falls Park. 1920 - Great Falls Grange established. [8] 1942 - Community fire department is formed. [8] 1945 - Community members begin referring to the Forestville area as "Great Falls" and encourage the name change. [8] 1955 - Area formally renamed Great Falls in local organizations ...
Great Falls is located at (38.9981653, −77.2883157) at an elevation of 344 feet (105 [2] [7] Located on Virginia State Route 7 in Northern Virginia, Great Falls is 15 miles (24 km) west-northwest of downtown Washington, D.C., and 10.5 miles (16.9 km) north of Fairfax, the county seat.
William Gunnell House, also known as Gunnell's Run, is a historic home located in Great Falls, Fairfax County, Virginia.It consists of a frame dwelling built in two stages and dated to about 1750, together with its compatible and unobtrusive 20th-century additions.
Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States. Situated on 800 acres (3.2 km 2 ) along the banks of the Potomac River in northern Fairfax County , the park is a disconnected but integral part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway . [ 1 ]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Diagram of Washington area trolley lines (enlargeable image showing Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad in dark green) The Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad (GF&OD) was an interurban trolley line that ran in Northern Virginia during the early 20th century.
The pump house at the Great Falls — which is still functioning and critical to the water supply in Paterson, Passaic and Clifton — will be renovated. This Great Falls Historical Park building ...
Cornwell Farm is a historic home located in Great Falls, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built in 1831, and is a two-story, five-bay brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the Georgian style. It has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story addition connected by a gambrel roofed hyphen built in 1936–1937. [3]