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The forerunner to the Falls Church appears to have been founded by landowner William Gunnell, who had moved from Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1729.In the spring of 1730, he secured a minister and convened a congregation, which met in his home until 1733, when the first building was constructed. [3]
Falls Church, an independent city in Virginia, United States, takes its name from The Falls Church, an 18th-century parish of the Church of England. Falls Church gained township status within Fairfax County in 1875. In 1948, it was incorporated as the City of Falls Church, an independent city with county-level governance status.
The independent city of Falls Church is named for the 1734 Church of England (later Episcopal Church) church building named the Falls Church founded at the intersection of important Native American trails that were later paved and named Broad Street, Lee Highway and Little Falls Street.
English colonists founded Falls Church in 1732, choosing as its location a place that was approximately one day's horseback ride from the Potomac River. The hill was afterward settled by the Minor family. Prior to this the hill did not have a formal name.
The Falls Church Anglican is an Anglican parish in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. In 2006, the congregation of the Falls Church divided over the question of whether to leave the Episcopal Church, effectively creating two congregations: the Falls Church Anglican and the Falls Church.
Nicholas F. "Nick" Benton (born February 9, 1944) is the founder, owner, and editor of the Falls Church News-Press, a weekly newspaper distributed free in Falls Church, Virginia, and in parts of Fairfax County, and Arlington County.
Stratford University building in Falls Church, Virginia A Stratford University building in Baltimore, seen in 2012. Stratford awarded graduate and undergraduate degrees. Online, residential, and blended programs were available. All online and blended courses used the Stratford online Moodle platform hosted in Stratford's data center. [27]
Birch founded the Puns Corp, intended to help people have fun with words. [6] Birch was born in Mobile, Alabama, 1925 and grew up in Cuba. He got a degree from the University of Miami, Florida, with a double major in literature and philosophy and earned a master's degree in library science from the Catholic University of America in 1958.