A hand book of Virginia . shing institution. There is also a Statebank at Falls Church, and a banking institution at Herndon, both doing a finebusiness. Population of county, census of 1910, 20,536. Fairfax, the county seat, is located in the center of the county, midway betweenthe main line and the Washington and Bluemont branch of the Southern railway,and about six miles from each. It is also the terminus of the W., A. & F. railroad. It is a thriving inland village of 500 inhabitants, with streetswell graded and paved, several public and private schools, churches, Masoniclodges, c
A hand book of Virginia . shing institution. There is also a Statebank at Falls Church, and a banking institution at Herndon, both doing a finebusiness. Population of county, census of 1910, 20,536. Fairfax, the county seat, is located in the center of the county, midway betweenthe main line and the Washington and Bluemont branch of the Southern railway,and about six miles from each. It is also the terminus of the W., A. & F. railroad. It is a thriving inland village of 500 inhabitants, with streetswell graded and paved, several public and private schools, churches, Masoniclodges, carriage and wagon factory, newspaper (the Fairfax Herald), etc. Centerville, another village of some importance, is located on the extreme borderof the county and near the famous battlefield of Manassas. Other towns in the county are Falls Church, with population 1,007—an increasesince census of 1890 of 215; Herndon, population of 692; Vienne, a population of317. These are thriving villages situated on the 127 Mount Vernon, the beautiful home and burial place of Washington, is situatedin this county on the banks of the Potomac, eight miles below Alexandria andfifteen miles from Washington City, from which latter place steamers visit MountVernon daily. There is also an electric railway connecting it with Alexandriaand Washington. The grounds are in charge of the Mount Vernon Association,and are visited by thousands of persons from all parts of the world. FAUQUIER COUNTY. This county was formed in 1759 from Prince William, and named in honor ofFrancis Fauquier, who was governor from 1758 to 1767. This is a northern county, sixty-three miles, air line, north of Richmond. Itlies at the upper waters of the Rappahannock river, which separates it fromCulpeper and Rappahannock on the west, and at the foot of the Blue Ridgemountains on the northwest, which separate it from Warren. Besides the Blue Ridge, there are several other mountain ranges in the county,the principal of
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