Black communities that once existed in Fairfax County are discussed. They include Merrifield, originally called Mills Crossing; The Pines; and Williamstown, now Merrifield and Dunn Loring.
The Fairfax County cemetery survey said “the small cemetery contains seven headstones and an undetermined number of unmarked burials. Permission to resurvey the cemetery in 1994 was denied, according to the Fairfax County Cemetery Survey.”
The…
A Black community existed in Dunn Loring after the Civil War along Haney Lane, where Kilmer Middle School is located, and in the area west of what today is the Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Station 13 at 2148 Gallows Road. That land was owned by George…
