GREAT FALLS LOCAL HISTORY

GREAT FALLS
• Brief History of Great Falls, 1600's-1900's
• Dogue Indians—our local tribe — Ruth Baja Williams
• Great Falls Park—as it was
• Colvin Run Historic District — Tanya Edwards Beauchamp
• Why is it Called Utterback Store Road? — Milburn P. Sanders
• Origin of Great Falls Place Names — Milburn P. Sanders & Carol Watts
• Historic Road (Georgetown Pike) Yields to the New — Ann Cameron Siegal
• About Several Great Falls Families — The Rambler — 1918
• An Historical Theater Organ in Great Falls — Jack Hardman
• Historic Great Falls as Painted by Pat Mercer Hutchins
• Great Falls Grange Elects All Female Officers — Washington Post, 1934
• Annual Forrestville Day — Washington Post, 1935


OUR NEIGHBOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON
• George Washington's Land Ownership in Great Falls — Bob Lundegard
• Great Falls & Bryan Fairfax in Washington's Life — Susan Cochran
• Letters Between Washington & Bryan Fairfax — Susan Cochran
• Washington's Potomac Canal Project — Donald J. Senese


LOCAL TALES
• I Am From — a poem by Emily Folin
• A Halloween Prank — Ann Cornwell Starke
• A Blind Man's Broom Machine — Milburn P. Sanders
• An Earlier Great Falls Lifestyle — Milburn P. Sanders
• Daniel Cornwell in Electric Car Collision — Wash Post, 1899
• PLAY BALL!!! Great Falls and America's Favorite Pastime
  — Katharine Seubert Heberg
• School Days in the Old Forestville Schoolhouse — Ruth A. Hill
• What an Eigth Grade Education Was Like in 1895
• Thirteen Dry Years In Forestville — Milburn P. Sanders
• As a Son Remembers — Mary Frances McKinley
• A Most Foul Murder — Janet Hofer
• Thelma's and the Pig Farm — Bruce Ross
• Prize-Winning Heifer Ramey Meets Dr. Strangelove:
      The Impact of the Cold War on a Virginia Farming Community
  — Tanya Edwards Beauchamp


GREAT FALLS BUILDINGS
• Great Falls Houses as Documents — Deborah Cannan
• The Grange in Great Falls
• The Great Falls Grange—Number 738 — Milburn P. Sanders
• Colvin Run School House
• Colvin Run Mill
• Millers House—Colvin Run Mill
• Daniel Cornwell and His Mills — Milburn P. Sanders
• The Georgetown Pike Toll House in Great Falls — Milburn P. Sanders
• The Cornwells & the Bryants — Susan Cochran
• The Gunnell House — Tanya Edwards Beauchamp
• Buck's Store
• Harrison's Grocery and General Store — Kathryn Harrison Farrar
• Dranesville Tavern — Janet Hofer
• Log House at 9615 Georgetown Pike — Joan K. Whener
• The Log Home on Innsbruck Avenue — Lucy Masemer & Mildred Hardman
• The History of 241 Springvale Road — Mary Frances Hilton


ABOUT OUR LOCAL MILL AND MILLING
• Colvin Run Mill and the Civil War — Bob Lundegard
• The Search for our Daily Bread — Bob Lundegard
• Our 1st Manufacturing Entrepreneur — Bob Lundegard
• An 1832 European Survey of American Milling — Bob Lundegard
• Flour Manufacture in Virginia in 1810 — Bob Lundegard
• High Tech Manufacturing in Fairfax County in 1810 — Bob Lundegard
• Canals and Flour Manufacture in Early Virginia: Why Philip Carper Bought Colvin Run Mill
  — Bob Lundegard
• The Patowmack Canal & Philip Carper's Brick Mill — Bob Lundegard
• Who Lived Around Carper's Mill in 1820? — Bob Lundegard
• George Washington Visits Colvin Run–November 7, 1799 — Bob Lundegard
• The Millards of Colvin Run Mill — Janet E. Meleney, Colvin Run Mill Volunteer
• Flour and the Port of Alexandria Around 1810 — Bob Lundegard
• William Sheppard 1, George Washington 0 — Bob Lundegard


BOOKS ON LOCAL HISTORY
• Fairfax County Stories: 1607-2007 — Virginia 2007 Committee
• Historians Tackled History of Tysons Corner — Dr. Donald J. Senese
• "The Preservation of Fairfax County History" — review by Bob Lundegard
• George Washington's Land Ownership In Great Falls — Bob Lundegard
• Cordelia Grantham Sansone's Journey with the Carpers — Paula Elsey
• Grist Mills and Mill Ruins booklets of Marjorie Lundegard
• Historians Publish Quilt Book
• His Excellency: George Washington — Fairfax Co. Book of Year
• Books on Fairfax County Civil War History — Bob Lundegard


NEARBY
• Discovering History in the Parks — Eleanor Gomolinski-Lally
• Fairfax County Site's Role in Suffragist Movement — Tina Roberts
• Torture at the Occoquan Workhouse—a Dark Episode in Lorton's Past — Ruth Baja Williams
• Chain Bridge Road Important to Fairfax County Development — Donald J. Senese


CIVIL WAR NOTES
• Great Falls in the Civil War — Lloyd Thrall
• The Civil War in Great Falls — Susan Cochran
• The Action at Dranesville — Karen Washburn
• The Rambler Visits Sugarland Run Neighborhood — Sun. Star, 28 July 1918
• Dr. William B. Day - Civil War Papers
  — Proceedings of the Commission Relating to State Prisoners, 1862
• Experiences as a Mosby Ranger — Richard Hopkins
• Reflections of a Union soldier . . . 2nd Lieutenant Charles Henry Daniels
• Merrybrook - Laura Ratcliffe's Home — Richard E. Crouch
• Ratcliffe/Coleman/Hanna Family Cemetery
• Our National Heritage and Our National Anthem — Milburn Sanders
• The Yankee? Dixie? Leg — Milburn P. Sanders
• Marcus McCutchan — Milburn P. Sanders
• After Midnight — First Hand Report of Lincoln's Assassination