The cemetery is located at 3610 Old Lee Highway on the grounds of Fairfax City’s Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic Blenheim. The Willcoxon brick home, Blenheim, dominates the twelve acre parcel.
During the Civil War, Union soldiers were housed in the home and camped outside. Some believe Blenheim was used as a hospital. The [...]
Surveyors visited this cemetery in June 2009 and again in January 2010. Many more field stones were located during the January visit. Several markers need cleaning and some are threatened by trees. The area where African Americans are buried needs brush and fallen trees removed before a complete survey could be completed. Recent funeral memorials [...]
In the fall of 2009 and January of 2010, the Martin Family cemetery clean-up was conducted by a neighboring family as the children’s school service project. The depth of brush and leaves was almost two feet in places. After the clean up, more field stones and a possible marker were located and flagged.
Photos of Martin [...]
The cemetery is located behind homes on Margaret Lane in Annandale, Virginia. In January 2010, the surveyor located the cemetery by following a path from the parking lot of Parkwood Baptist Church on Braddock Road. The crude path through the woods leads to a chain link fence which surrounds a marker, a wooden cross, and [...]
In January 2010, this cemetery was surveyed at the request of a Realtor who had found a grave marker on a Great Falls property she was trying to sell. The marker was inscribed “Little Ray.” Through library research, the realtor found that Little Ray belonged to the Orrison Family Cemetery, three miles away. The marker [...]
A 550-feet long cemetery is quite a challenge to clean. The last photographic evidence of a clean-up at this cemetery was 1991. So 19 years later, the work is being done in three phases. Two future eagle scouts conducted extensive clean-ups in phases one and two - the first on a fine day in May [...]
