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Fairfax Street
Virtual Walking Tour
The Old School
This former elementary and high school opened in 1910, replacing
the circa 1880 Waterford Academy that had burned. The auditorium
was added in 1928. The Waterford Foundation purchased the
property from the Loudoun County School Board in 1966. The
auditorium was distroyed by fire in
2007. |
Union Cemetery
Since the early 1800s, the Union of Churches Cemetery has
served all Waterford denominations (albeit segregated into
black and white sections), other than the Quakers—whose
burying ground adjoins Fairfax Meetinghouse. Both Union and
Confederate veterans lie here. Lists of burials are on record
at the Foundation office. |
40231 Fairfax Street
Eb Divine helped build this house in 1915 on the site of
a smaller house that was demolished. Like many Waterford
homes, it is brick with a curving front porch supported by
simple Doric columns. The dormer windows have fish-scale
shingles, as does a frame wing to the rear. Divine made a
model of the earlier house on the site, a brick dwelling
built about 1820, possibly for blacksmith Reuben Schooley
(1764-1825). |
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