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The library's service area spans both the county and Fairfax, and several local jurisdictions through reciprocity agreements serving nearly half a million registered users. [6] The library system is the largest in Virginia in terms of population served, which includes over one million people between Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax. [7]
Reference area in Beatley Central Library. Today the library consists of a new central building (built in 2000 and named for mayor Charles E. Beatley) and four branch libraries, and includes two special divisions: Local History /Special Collections (in what became the Kate Waller Barret Branch Library) and a Talking Books division for the blind and visually handicapped.
Fairfax, Virginia (/ ˈ f ɛər f æ k s / FAIR-faks), [a] is an independent city in Virginia and the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the population was 24,146.
McLean (/ m ə ˈ k l eɪ n / mə-KLAYN) [5] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population of the community was 50,773 at the 2020 census. [1] It is located between the Potomac River and Vienna within the Washington metropolitan area.
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[7] [8] In October 1978, the committee recommended a site west of Fairfax, and in 1979, the county purchased 183 acres of the site, called the Smith-Carney site, for $4.1 million. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Another committee reported on county agency space needs in 1980, and in 1982 a design team and concept were selected. [ 8 ]
Fairfax County bought 2,324 acres for $4.2 million in 2002, and began the work to convert the former prison into a cultural arts center. [16] Two years later, the Board of Supervisors approved the rezoning of 55 acres (including the original Workhouse complex, based on a colonnaded Jeffersonian plan) to become the Workhouse Arts Center.
Burke is an unincorporated section of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, traditionally defined as the area served by the Burke post office (Zip Code 22015).Burke includes two census-designated places: the Burke CDP, population 42,312 in 2020 [3] and the Burke Centre CDP, population 17,518 in 2020.