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 [...]
In the 1800s, William Gooding farmed and operated a tavern in Annandale, Virginia. In Mr. Gooding’s will, he indicated that a section of his farmland was to be used as a “burying ground.” The original cemetery measured 35 feet by 550 feet. Through the years, the Goodings, Gooding relatives, neighbors, and subsequent owners have been [...]
William Gooding was an early settler of Fairfax County. He farmed near present day Northern Virginia Community College on Little River Turnpike. His family also operated a tavern there. During the Civil War, Mosby and his rangers attacked a team of sutler’s wagons in the viciinity of the tavern and Mosby was badly wounded during [...]
