Odrick’s Corner
Title
Odrick’s Corner
Description
- Location: North of Dulles Toll Road, intersection Spring Hill Road (county 684) and Lewinsville Road (county 694).
- African American community history: Named after Alfred Odrick, a former slave and carpenter who purchased 30 acres in 1872. Odrick’s one room school stood by 1879. The community used the school in many ways—they held community meetings there, as well as the first services of the Shiloh Baptist Church. Though the schoolhouse was destroyed in the 1950s, the church on Spring Hill Road still stands; cemetery is located behind the church. The Odrick home place on Lewinsville Road is an archaeological site. One or two small homes remain on Lewinsville Roa and on Spring Hill Road next to the Toll Road Spring Hill entrance. (Additional houses demolished c. 1980s)
- The community most probably extended west on Lewinsville Road at least as far as the still extant Pleasant Grove Church & cemetery and east past Spring Hill School.
Source
- Sources: WETA Local History Blog: boundarystones.weta.org; WETA Historical D.C. Metro Map hmdb.org, Fairfax County History Commission Odrick’s Corner roadside marker text
- Connection Newspaper: “Odrick’s Corner Recognized after 130 years”, May 23, 2002.
- Article includes testimony by Alfred Odrick’s great-great-granddaughter.
Collection
Citation
“Odrick’s Corner,” Fairfax County African American History Inventory, accessed October 24, 2026, https://fairfaxaahi.centerformasonslegacies.com/items/show/374.