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"Fairfax Stone" "This monument, at the headspring of the Potomac River, Marks one of the historic spots of America. Its name is derived from Thomas Lord Fairfax who owned all the land lying between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. The first Fairfax Stone, marked "FX", was set in 1746 by Thomas Lewis, a surveyor employed by Lord Fairfax.
A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.
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.
Location of Arlington County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Greenway Court is a historic country estate near White Post in rural Clarke County, Virginia.The property is the site of the seat of the vast 18th-century land empire of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the only ennobled British colonial proprietor to live in one of the North American colonies.
William Green's 1669 patent for 1,150 acres (4.7 km 2) encompassed most of the peninsula between Dogue Creek and Accotink Creek, along the Potomac River.Although this property was sub-divided and sold in the early 18th century, it was reassembled during the 1730s to create the central portion of Col. William Fairfax's 2,200-acre (8.9 km 2) plantation of Belvoir Manor.
Office Was the tallest building in the Washington metropolitan area at the time of completion, overtaking the Rosslyn Twin Towers. Was surpassed by the Capital One Tower in 2017. [5] 3 Rosslyn Twin Tower One: 381 (116) 31 1980 Rosslyn Office [6] [7] Rosslyn Twin Tower Two: 381 (116) 31 1982 Rosslyn Office [8] [9] 5 Central Place Residential ...
Ashton Heights Historic District is a national historic district located in Arlington County, Virginia. Today, the Ashton Height Historic District contains 1,097 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure in a residential neighborhood in North Arlington .