Little Falls Street 200 block (M.G. Sims) 84 200 block (W.W. Biggs) 44

Maple Street, North 316 (A.M. Smith) 59 319 (E.F. Crocker) 27 321 (H. Crocker) 27 and Great Falls (G.F. McInturff) 12 329 (C. Larner) 75

McKinley Street (T.M. Talbott) 41

Oak Street, South 114 (The Rectory--Rev. G.S. Somerville) 69 116 (T. Hillier) 55

Park Avenue 312 (J.S. Riley) 56 900 (C.C. Walters) 45 905 (St. James Roman Catholic Church) 102

Roosevelt Street Oakwood Cemetery 87

Spring Street (A.O. Von Herbulis) 58

Underwood Street (G.G. Crossman) 7

Walden Court 502 (G.W. Ca.s.silear) 101

Washington Blvd., Arlington near Lee Hwy. (R.C.L. Moncure) 91 east of Lee Hwy. (F.M. Thompson) 97 (H.R. Thompson) 97 at Roosevelt (W.H. Barksdale) 76 at Roosevelt (H.A. Fellows) 51 6831 (G.W. Poole) 11 6839 (E.T. Fenwick) 4 6857 (C.A. Stewart) 325 at 25th Street (P. Dodge) 38

Washington Street, North 100 block (Mankin Pharmacy) 23 100 block (E.J. Northrup) 112 200 block (The Inn) 96 222 (Congregational Church) 111 223 (M.S. Hopkins) 18 282 (G.A.L. Merrifield) 52 305 (T.C. Quick) 66 306 (G.A.L. Merrifield) 53 351 (J.A. d.i.c.kinson) 21 353 (G.M. Newell) 92 384 (The Methodist Episcopal Church) 103 at s.e. corner of Columbia St. (E.W. Green) 67 at n.e. corner of Columbia St. (G.W. Hawxhurst) 43 400 block (T.B. Snoddy) 40 421 (C. Crossman) 24

Washington Street, South (V.E. Kerr) 104

West Street, South 409 (M.S. Roberts) 107

Wilson Blvd. and McKinley Street, Arlington (A.M. Lothrop) Front

A Virginia Village

Historical Sketch

of

Falls Church

and the

Old Colonial Church

PRESS OF J. H. NEWELL

FALLS CHURCH, VA.

1904

[Ill.u.s.tration: School House]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY 1

THE TOWN OF FALLS CHURCH 3

THE OLD COLONIAL CHURCH 33

FALLS CHURCH IN THE CIVIL WAR 62

CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES, ETC. 77

[Ill.u.s.tration: Mr. A. M. Lothrop]

PREFACE.

In preparing this little book it has been the aim of the Editor to obtain facts of the early history, as well as to set forth what changes time has wrought in the erstwhile veritable hamlet of years gone by. To this end he has exerted every effort in the examination of records, that authentic data only, in describing the old church and village, may appear in these pages. Aside from the descendants of the old settlers, the heads of many households in the village of Falls Church have left kindred and friends in other sections of the country, and identified themselves heartily in the work of developing and beautifying the natural advantages of the spot they have selected for the building of new homes. It is but natural that interest should be taken in the evidence of their thrift and enterprise, by those whose lives were linked with theirs in times past, as in the town they have helped to build up. The attempt has been to join the past with the present, in reciting incidents of the early days, to show no less the improvements that have come as the years roll on.

The joint work has been done by Messrs. Chas. A. Stewart, Pickering Dodge and George M. Newell, Mr. Stewart having collected, edited and compiled the text, Mr. Dodge the photographic work, and Mr. Newell the printing.

The Editor is indebted for courtesies and a.s.sistance to Mr. H. H. Dodge, Superintendent of Mount Vernon, a vestryman of Pohick Church, Mr. H. S.

Ryer, stenographer, Mr. F. M. Richardson, Clerk of the Court, Fairfax Co., and Rev. George S. Somerville, Rector of the Falls Church. Valuable information was obtained from Howe's History of Virginia, Snowden's Old Landmarks in Virginia and Maryland, as from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.

M. M. O.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Lawton House]

A Virginia Village.

Introductory.

Falls Church, while a Virginia village, is thoroughly cosmopolitan.

According to a recent census only about fifty per cent. of its inhabitants are natives of Virginia, the rest coming from the various States of the Union or from foreign countries.

Falls Church might properly be called a national village, since its citizens are chiefly employees of the government, and the interests of its eleven hundred people naturally center at the National Capitol.