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GFHS Programs
	Tour of Hidden Springs Archeological Survey of Riverbend Park The World War I Memorial on the National Mall, It's History and Preservation Annual Holiday Party The Escapades of John Singleton Mosby the "Gray Ghost" in our area Preservation and Reuse of the Wetsel Seed Building in Harrisonburg, Virginia ANNUAL BANQUET Virginia vs. Maryland: How Virginia Won Its 2003 Lawsuit Against Maryland to Protect Its Rights          in the Potomac River, and the Supporting Role Played by the History of Great Falls Danger Between the Lines: the Civil War conflict along Hunter Mill Road
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	PICTURES OF PAST EVENTS Pictures of the March 2009 "Tie Guy" Program Pictures of the May 2008 Annual Business Meeting Pictures of April Dodona Manor Tour in Historic Leesburg Pictures of the March 2008 Program Pictures of February 2008 Annual Banquet & 30th Anniversary Celebration NEWS Nominate a "Celebrated Tree" Student of Westfield High School Develops Historic Web Site Historian, Milburn Sanders, is Honored Ash-Dome Project Plan Merrybrook - an endangered residence. EVENTS Next Great Falls Historical Society Program Annual Memorial Day Ceremony Sully Plantation Events Fairfax Parks Calendar of Events Preserving the Historic Road conference ACTIVITIES Great Falls Activities for All Original Pieces of Wright Flyer Sought Identify a Centenarian for the "Witness to a Century" Project A Drive to History RESOURCES GFHS CHRONICLER — Including past issues. Oral Histories Available Fairfax County Chancery Records Will be Online Guide to Women's History Manuscripts Now Online Fx. Co. Resources Online Society Potluck Dinner and Other GF Recipes
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GFHS Oral Histories
	Beach, Warren Breeden, Willie Brittin, Burt Cockrill, M.P. Jack Cornwell, Paul Costley, Mrs. Otrich Sharper Day, Freemont Donn, James Ellis, Joseph Faulkner, Marie Feighery, Thelma Arnn Fitzgerald, Robert Follin, Donna Follin, James Walton Getchell, Martha Greene, Katherine Follin Hammond, Richard Historians Walk at a Photo Exhibit      Those interviewed:          Breeden, Willie          Follin, Donna          Sanders, Milburn          Tucker, Willis          Whetzel, Naomi         Hopkins, Margaret Hummer, Keith Jackson, Wade Jenkins, Bessie W. McGavin, Virginia Millard Family Reunion      Those interviewed:          Cockrill, M.P. Jack          Faulkner, Marie          Hummer, Keith          Van Patten, Charles          Van Sickler, Danelda          Van Sickler, Mr. & Mrs. Reid, Marian Ring, Emily Sanders, Milburn Thompson, Hazel Thompson, Mr. Melvin & Mrs. Margaret Tucker, Willis Utterback, Alice — Speaking at the BPW Club of Great Falls Utterback, Fred Utterback, Fred and Alice Van Patten, Charles Van Sickler, Danelda Van Sickler, Mr. & Mrs. Warner, Hilda Offutt Whetzel, Naomi
GFHS Publications
	This Land at Cornwell Farm Land Above the Falls Grandpa's Shadow How to Cure a Thousand Pounds of Ham and Other Receipts The History of the Old Georgetown Pike Old Roads & New Insights National Geographic — June 1987 issue featuring the Patowmack Canal The History of the Great Falls Fire Department Annual Report 1983-1984 Reflections: 1984-1985 Reflections: 1985 -1986 Annual Reports 1986 -1988 Reflections: 1988-1991 Reflections: 1991-1994 Reflections: 1994-1996 GFHS 1993 Calendar — Historic pictures of Great falls GFHS 1994 Calendar — Historic sites in Great Falls GFHS 1995 Calendar — Historic sites in Great Falls GFHS 1996 Calendar — Historic sites in Great Falls GFHS 1997 Calendar — Historic sites in Great Falls GFHS 1998 Calendar — Then & Now: 20 Years of Change GFHS 1999 Calendar — Bicentenial Tribute to G.W. GFHS 2000 Calendar — Great Falls As It Was 100 Years Ago GFHS 2001 Calendar — Historical Residences of Great Falls GFHS 2002 Calendar — Colvin Run Road, a Va Scenic Byway GFHS 2003 Calendar — The Communities of Great Falls GFHS 2004 Calendar — Great Falls & Riverbend Parks GFHS 2005 Calendar — The churches of Great Falls GFHS 2006 Calendar — Celebration of dairy farming in Great Falls
Great Falls History in Pictures
	SELECTED PICTURES Dr. Alfred Leigh Dickey's Inn at Matildaville Great Falls Park Railway Station Elkins Station  The Old Schoolhouse Colvin Run Mill in Winter Harrison's Grocery & General Store Riverboat in Patowmack Canal
	HISTORICAL RESIDENCES OF GREAT FALLS Toll House Photo Album
		Introduction Towlston Grange Then Towlston Grange Now Cornwell Bryant House
			Henry with Mrs. Cornwell Henry Cornwell with Students
		Dr. Alfred Leigh Home The Turner Farm The John Locke House The Brooks House The Van Patten House Collas Harris House Mary & Frances Hilton Cabin Robert Lanham House Mark Turner House Sander Hill Pherson House John Pearson House George Cummins House Jesse Smith House John Nelson Follin House Four Stairs
	SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION Photo Album
	OFFICERS & MEMBERS — 1940 GRANGE Photo Album
	POST OFFICES OF GREAT FALLS Credits Early Great Falls Area Post Offices Early Postal Service Springvale Post Office Dranesville Post Office Deanwood Post Office Colvin Run Post Office Great Falls Post Office (1878 - 1917) Great Falls Post Office (1913 - 1917) Bucks Store Postal Substation Forestville/Great Falls Volunteer Fire Department Great Falls Post Office (1959 - 1981) Great Falls Post Office (1981 - 2000) Great Falls Post Office Now
Local Lore
	GREAT FALLS Brief History of Great Falls, 1600s-1900s Dogue Indians—our local tribe Great Falls Park - as it was Colvin Run Historic District Why is it Called Utterback Store Road? Historic Road Yields to the New Origin of Great Falls Place Names An Historical Theater Organ in Great Falls OUR NEIGHBOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON George Washington's Land Ownership in Great Falls Great Falls & Brian Fairfax in Washington's Life Letters Between Washington & Brian Fairfax Washington's Potomac Canal Project LOCAL TALES I Am From — a poem by Emily Folin A Halloween Prank A Blind Man's Broom Machine An Earlier Great Falls Lifestyle Daniel Cornwell in Electric Car Collision — Wash Post, 1899 PLAY BALL!!! Great Falls and America's Favorite Pastime School Days in the Old Forestville Schoolhouse Thirteen Dry Years in Forestville As a Son Remembers A Most Foul Murder Thelma's and the Pig Farm Prize-Winning Heifer Ramey Meets Dr. Strangelove:     The Impact of the Cold War on a Virginia Farming Community GREAT FALLS BUILDINGS Great Falls Houses as Documents The Grange in Great Falls The Great Falls Grange—Number 738 Colvin Run Mill Millers House—Colvin Run Mill Daniel Cornwell and His Mills The Cornwells & the Bryants The Gunnell House Buck's Store Harrison's Grocery and General Store Dranesville Tavern Log House at 9615 Georgetown Pike The Log Home on Innsbruck Avenue The History of 241 Springvale Road
	BOOKS ON LOCAL HISTORY Fairfax County Stories: 1607-2007 — Virginia 2007 Committee Historians Tackled History of Tysons Corner The Preservation of Fairfax County History George Washington's Land Ownership In Great Falls Cordelia Grantham Sansone's Journey with the Carpers Historians Publish Quilt Book His Excellency: George Washington Books on Fairfax County Civil War History
	NEARBY Discovering History in the Parks Fairfax County Site's Role in Suffragist Movement Chain Bridge Road Important to Fairfax County Development — Donald J. Senese CIVIL WAR NOTES Great Falls in the Civil War The Civil War in Great Falls The Action at Dranesville The Rambler Visits Sugarland Run Neighborhood Dr. William B. Day - Civil War Papers Experiences as a Mosby Ranger Reflections of a Union soldier Merrybrook - Laura Ratcliffe's Home Ratcliffe/Coleman/Hanna Family Cemetery Our National Heritage and Our National Anthem The Yankee? Dixie? Leg Marcus McCutchan After Midnight
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	Historical Fairfax Newspaper Index (1785 - 2000)
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	Richmond Civil War Newspaper
	Small Civil War Letters Archive at Baylor
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