The Stewart Family Cemetery is located on the common ground of the Stone Creek Crossing town homes. It is well maintained by the townhouse management. The fence is locked, which discourages visitors. A slave cemetery is reported to be located outside of the fence.
It is believed that, after the 1862 Battle of Chantilly during the [...]
This cemetery in the Lincolnia suburb is surrounded by homes. Due to recent construction a metal fence was placed around the cemetery and some markers were temporarily removed by the Fairfax County Park Authority for safe keeping. The Park Authority mows the cemetery. A dead tree is dropping limbs and, if the tree falls, it [...]
The cemetery, which is approximately one quarter acre in area, is located between Fox Mill Road and a residential home.
When it was surveyed, the cemetery was very overgrown. Without knowing there was a cemetery there, visitors would assume it was just woods and a thicket. Three markers were found in the foliage. Nellie J. Pearson’s [...]
The cemetery is located on Hillsman Street in the Falls Church part of Fairfax County. It is named for James Wren and his grandson-in-law Robert Darne.
James Wren was born in King George County, Virginia in 1728. In 1755 he moved to Fairfax County where his skills in carpentry evolved into the skills of an architect. [...]
Join the community at a candlelight memorial service as we remember the killed and wounded from the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) and Battle of Ox Hill.
8 PM Sunday evening, September 2, 2012
Cemetery of St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church
5612 Ox Road (Rte. 123)
Fairfax Station, Virginia
After the battles, many of the wounded were brought [...]
Eagle Scout candidate Andrew Lafosse led fellow Boy Scouts of Troop 1115 in cleaning up the Harris Family Cemetery. The cemetery, which was almost lost to the elements, is located in the woods near an equestrian trail in Bull Run Regional Park. The successful and much-needed project involved clearing the cemetery and installing two fences [...]
Eagle Scout candidate Chris Dobson led a successful project and team of fellow Boy Scouts (Troop 1128) to clean up the very overgrown Bicksler Family Cemetery. Early surveyors had indicated there were over thirty burials. After scouts removed the undergrowth, clear rows of field stone grave markers were found. Only a few commercial markers exist. [...]
The cemetery at St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church in Fairfax Station predates the church being built. In 1838, two prominent Irish families, Cunninghams and Hamills, donated land in hopes of seeing a church built there. Soon community residents began to be buried on the future church property. In the 1850s the Orange and Alexandria [...]
In January 2012, surveyors found this cemetery inaccessible. A path from the street led the visitors to a concrete wall which enclosed the entire cemetery, with no gate. A brass plaque on the wall provided information about the family buried there. Looking over the wall, visitors could see two gravestone markers. A number of field [...]
In January 2012, Camden Trautz led his Boy Scout Troop #1532 and FCCPA members in cutting and clearing the brush and cleaning markers.
The Gooding-Seaton Cemetery has had three clean ups in three years. Each time, the cleanup has been a little easier, yet still truckloads of brush are hauled away each time. Many of the [...]
