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The authority gained control over the disused Fort Belvoir reservoir in March 1960 when it was awarded a 25-year lease to operate the 242-acre site as a public park and recreation facility. [7] The lake was renamed Lake Accotink. Appointed in November 1961, Joseph Brown became the second director of the Fairfax County Park authority in January ...
Audrey Campbell Moore (December 28, 1928 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician from Fairfax County, Virginia. She served for twenty years on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, including one term as chairwoman. Moore won the position after defeating Republican Jack Herrity for reelection in 1987.
Mott sued Lake Fairfax under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Lake Fairfax was enjoined from refusing entry to people on account of their race. [1] [2] At the end of 1965, the Fairfax County Park Authority expressed interest in purchasing the facility, and Crippen sold Lake Fairfax to the authority in 1966 for $1.7 million. [3] [4]
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, sometimes abbreviated as FCBOS, is the governing body of Fairfax County, Virginia, a county of over a million in Northern Virginia. The board has nine districts, and one at-large district which is always occupied by the Chair.
Fairfax is located close to the geographic center of Fairfax County, at (38.852612, −77.304377 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.3 km 2 ), of which all but 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ) is land.
Beginning in October 2005, it was one of only two ABC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone to air ABC's World News Tonight at 7 p.m.; WSB-TV in Atlanta is the other. However, WSET has returned the national program to the 6:30 p.m. time slot, shifting its local newscast to 7 p.m.
A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.