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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 .
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 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 ]
John Gunnell House, also known as the George Coleman House, is a historic home near Great Falls, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built in 1852, and is a two-story, five-bay, T-shaped frame dwelling in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has an English basement, attic, and intersecting gable roofs with brick chimneys at each of the three gable ...
Map of Virginia. Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places: . As of September 18, 2017, there are 3,027 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 37 of the 38 independent cities, including 120 National Historic Landmarks and National Historic Landmark Districts, four ...
Colvin Run Mill is in Great Falls, Virginia.Built c. 1811, Colvin Run Mill is the sole surviving operational 19th-century water-powered mill in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and its restored mechanism is a nationally significant example of automated technologies pioneered in milling and later adopted across American industry.
Matildaville is a ghost town located along the Patowmack Canal near present day Great Falls, Virginia, United States.It was named for the wife of Light Horse Harry Lee, on 40 acres of land owned at the time by Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, and served as headquarters for the Patowmack Company from 1785 until 1799. [1]
Great Falls Park Map; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. VA-13, "Potowmack Company: Great Falls Canal & Locks, Great Falls, Fairfax County, VA", 5 photos, 2 measured drawings, 45 data pages, 2 photo caption pages